MARSING, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Tuesday toured a massive wildfire rehabilitation effort in southwest Idaho that's part of the federal government's new wildfire strategy and then announced $10 million for projects in 12 states to reduce…
Set career highs across the board last season.
Vanessa Hudgens stops to gas up her car on Monday (May 23) in Studio City, Calif. The 27-year-old actress looked stylish in long waves and bright red nails as she stopped at the station. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Vanessa Hudgens Vanessa took to Instagram the day before to share her excitement for [...]
Tot nu toe plant ProRail werkzaamheden zo veel mogelijk 's nachts, in het weekeinde en in vakanties. Maar nu ligt ook aanstaande vrijdag een groot deel van het treinverkeer rond Utrecht plat. Kan niet anders, zegt de spoorbeheerder want het werk past niet in één weekeinde.
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Trade between Islamic State, the Assad regime and others continues despite Syria’s civil war, leaving it to truck drivers to crisscross front lines delivering food, oil and appliances.
For millions of TV fans, no matter hard he tries, David Schwimmer will always be Ross Geller from “Friends” — just check the comments section under any Schwimmer-featured YouTube video.
After decades of rambling, raging, rocking and seemingly inexhaustible reinventing, the artist from Hibbing, Minnesota, born as Robert Zimmerman and known to us as Bob Dylan, is 75 years old, a walking diamond jubilee; still alive, still on the road and coming soon to an arena or amphitheater near you to sing classic popular music. […]
The former member of the 9/11 Commission called Tuesday for the public release of 28 classified pages that outline Saudi support for terrorists who took part in the terror attacks of Sept. 11 “I am strongly in favor of declassifying this information as quickly as possible,” Tim Roemer told a House committee. “The 9/11 families […]
There's perhaps no single elected official in the United States more closely tied to Hillary Clinton than Terry McAuliffe. Now the governor of Virginia, he chaired her 2008 campaign, co-chaired Bill's 1996 reelection campaign, and was the Clintons' hand-picked chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005. His 2007 memoir, What a Party!, is more or less a 436-page brag about how close he is to Bill and Hillary.
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As the students strode on to the stage, beaming in their black and red graduation gowns, the school administrator called out their names: Brandon James McCaughey Joel Steven McCaughey Kelsey Ann McCaughey And so it went seven times at the Carlisle High School over the weekend. The McCaugheys are the world’s first surviving set of […]
Hermina Hirsch loves to sing the national anthem — and she has a good reason for it. “It’s one of my favorite songs because I’m grateful for the things that America did for me,” she told CNN. Hirsch is a Holocaust survivor and she has been performing the song for more than 40 years at […]
Not all of them are cancelled after one season.
This video explains why Calvin and Hobbes is so great.
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Every few weeks there is a new logical puzzle or optical illusion that finds its way into every corner of the internet. Here is the latest: See if your brain can deal with it.
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Even after all these years, The Simpsons is still delivering fresh couch gags. Check out the latest masterpiece—a spoof on IKEA instructions.
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The Nebraska men's basketball team will play at Clemson in the annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the conferences announced Tuesday.
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Who doesn't love chocolate? And we all know Hershey's — but perhaps we don't all know the story of the famous chocolate company's founder, Milton Hershey.
Milton Hershey was a 'nobody' who, according to Biography, became the American manufacturer and philanthropist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company and popularized chocolate candy throughout much of the world.
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris also announced a lawsuit, saying her state helped lead an investigation by 46 states and the District of Columbia into the product. The devices are used to treat pelvic organ prolapse, a condition that involves organs such as the bladder, bowel and uterus shifting, often after childbirth, a hysterectomy or menopause.
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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The Avengers have teamed up to lift the spirits of a teenage fan with leukemia.
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The Avengers have teamed up to lift the spirits of a teenage fan with leukemia.
(AP) — The Avengers have teamed up to lift the spirits of a teenage fan with leukemia. Students at Grossmont High School in suburban San Diego made a plea on Facebook this month asking the cast of Captain America: The celebrities signed his bedroom wall and gave him gifts from the Marvel film series, the boy's mom, Amy Wilcox, told the newspaper.
Gold futures fall for fifth straight session, sending prices to their lowest level in more than a month.
NEW YORK (AP) — "Sweetbitter," (Alfred A. Knopf), by Stephanie Danler
Things seem to fall into place when she aces an interview at a famous restaurant in Union Square — unnamed, but bearing quite a bit of resemblance to Danny Meyer's famed Union Square Cafe, where the author actually worked — and enters the world of fine dining that's equal parts glamour and drudgery. [...] she gets swept up in the hedonistic lifestyle of servers, with plenty of late-night partying, awash in alcohol and drugs.
NEW YORK (AP) — "Sweetbitter," (Alfred A. Knopf), by Stephanie Danler
