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Romero Jucá allegedly plotted to stop Petrobras corruption probe

Planning minister steps down after secretly discussing how to end Petrobras corruption probe

UCL Student Barney Harris explains how they have re-created the method by which the giant stones of Stonehenge may have been transported.

“Qual o problema de comer sushi com garfo?”

A casca do pão de forma é sua parte favorita.

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Assim como o pão francês só é bom sem o miolo.

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Brigadeiro? Eca!

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Para você, o chocolate verdadeiro é o branco.

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Afinal, é sempre bom acompanhar o trabalho de quem luta por direitos. Fora esses outros 30 maravilhosos, claro.

Terry McAuliffe, Virginia's Democratic governor and chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential run, is under federal investigation over contributions to his 2013 campaign, CNN said on Monday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The U.S. Justice Department's yearlong investigation has focused, at least in part, on whether contributions to McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign, including $120,000 from a Chinese businessman, Wang Wenliang, violated the law, according to CNN.

The father and girlfriend of a Rikers inmate allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill multiple witnesses, the Queens District Attorney said.

Reuters/Osman Orsal

ISTANBUL, TURKEY — For Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, the global humanitarian crisis is personal. 

As a 6-year-old boy, the Korean diplomat was uprooted from his village and school by the Korean War. It was the lifeline extended to him and his family by a fledgling humanitarian system and a nascent United Nations – shelter, food, schoolbooks – that allowed that small boy to prosper, Mr. Ban likes to say.

Six decades later, his push to overhaul the international humanitarian system ... Читать дальше...

Fed officials keep saying they want to raise interest rates this summer, but the bond market doesn't believe it.

Insurers and private equity groups push levels to post-2008 high

Bank of America Corp. was not liable for fraud and subject to a penalty of more than $1.2 billion for its actions before the economy collapsed in 2008 despite a jury’s finding to the contrary, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said there was insufficient evidence for a jury to conclude at a 2013 trial that mail and wire fraud was committed by the bank’s Countrywide Financial unit in late 2007 and 2008 when it passed along mortgages to government housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The bigger the playoff moment, the more Nikita Kucherov shines.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The bigger the playoff moment, the more Nikita Kucherov shines.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The bigger the playoff moment, the more Nikita Kucherov shines.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The bigger the playoff moment, the more Nikita Kucherov shines.

Property prices and deteriorating infrastructure add to concern

Clinton is now taking aim at Donald Trump the businessman.

Ruling that threw out private antitrust-related lawsuits is overturned

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mets first baseman Lucas Duda is out at least four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his lower back, a significant blow to the defending National League champions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mets first baseman Lucas Duda is out at least four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his lower back, a significant blow to the defending National League champions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mets first baseman Lucas Duda is out at least four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his lower back, a significant blow to the defending National League champions.

It’s increasingly a rule that the age of 27 is when basketball players are ready to win titles on teams built around them

On Monday, a poll conducted by Real Clear Politics (RCP) showed presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump ahead of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the national polling average for the first time.