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Both the No. 1 seed Raiders and the No. 2 seed Royals handled business, crushing their ways to a combined 4-0 record.

Marilyn Malara
NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) -- British singer Leona Lewis is the newest addition to the upcoming Broadway revival of "Cats."

Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and noted singer Indranil Sen will be among 18 new faces to be sworn in as ministers as Mamata Banerjee takes oath again as West Bengal Chief Minister on Friday.

Editorial Board Member Collin Levy on Gov. Bruce Rauner’s fight to save the state from bankruptcy. Photo credit: Associated Press.

The Afghan government is looking warily at the conservative religious scholar who has assumed leadership of the Taliban, seeing in him a rigid proponent of hard-line orthodoxy who is unlikely to favor peace talks, officials said. A day after the Afghan Taliban announced that Haibadullah Akhundzada would take over after Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, officials on Thursday were trying to form a picture of a leader best known for relentlessly applying strict Sharia, or Islamic law.

Trump wants to get tough on Chinese trade, but China is the state’s top trading partner

Joseph A. Bosco

Security, Taiwan, Japan, China

Tsai Ing-wen is acting to improve relations with Tokyo. America should take notice.

In office less than a week, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has already defused a potential conflictual situation in the East China Sea. Her administration has decided to leave the resolution of a dispute with Japan over the status of Okinotori as a rock or island to the discretion of the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Читать дальше...

EU member states intend to extend an emergency brake mechanism making it easier to freeze visa-free travel deals with third countries like Ukraine and Georgia, a diplomatic source in Brussels said Thursday.

When Hillary Clinton resigned as Secretary of State in 2013, she made a series of speeches to many different financial service companies. Here are some of the bigger names on Wall Street that paid Clinton to speak. 

Veteran pass rusher Dwight Freeney is making the rounds right now in search of a home for the 2016 season, but a stop in Dallas doesn’t look like it will be one of the tour dates. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Thursday, via Charean Williams of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that the team…

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES throughout to indicate think tank was launched) SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- Outgoing National Assembly Speaker Chung Ui-hwa launched a think tank on Thursday with political watchers paying keen attention to the rol

Which movies to watch this weekend, May 27 What elevates it above the exhausted run of dystopian movies is a genuine sadness at the characters’ internal deadness. There’s a fine and atypical lead performance from Colin Farrell, with good support from Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly and Lea Seydoux. Director Whit Stillman meets Jane Austen in this adaptation of Austen’s caustic, unpublished novel (“Lady Susan”) about a charming, unscrupulous widow using her wiles to find marital matches for herself and her daughter. Читать дальше...

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Dertje Meijer stapt op als bestuursvoorzitter van Havenbedrijf Amsterdam. In een donderdag door het havenbedrijf uitgestuurde verklaring zegt ze per 1 augustus op zoek te gaan naar een nieuwe uitdaging die past bij haar huidige levensfase. Wie haar gaat opvolgen is nog niet bekend.

Two-thirds of American travelers urinate in the pool.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police in Congo's capital have fired tear gas to break up an opposition march, while one person died and dozens were injured in chaos surrounding similar marches around the country.

India’s welfare minister has claimed that Indian women “are being sold like products in a retail shop” to  Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. Women are sold for £4000 in Saudi Arabia and around £2000 in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Palle Raghunatha Reddy said that women from Andhra Pradesh and the neighbouring state of Telangana are being denied human rights and held in horrific conditions in Gulf state jails after fleeing their employers or overstaying their visas. The Independent reports... Читать дальше...

American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Sally Satel on a new bill that aims to alleviate organ shortages. Photo credit: New York State Department of Motor Vehicles.

Iconic Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip will perform what is expected to be their final tour this summer, following lead singer Gord Downie...

According to documents posted on the Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada website, Stephen Harper has set up his own company, called Harper & Associates Consulting Inc.

An Islamic State executioner who announced the group’s responsibility for the March 22 terror attacks in Brussels was recently in communication with several Belgians arrested this week for plotting further attacks, officials say.

When your body’s immune system reacts to a foreign substance in a way that doesn’t cause a reaction in others, that is what’s known as an allergy. Ranging from pollen and dust to more severe sensitivities such as food and insect sting allergens, the impact of allergies deserves discourse ...

Ghirardelli Square. Photo: The Chronicle Related Links A guide to Beerlandia: Where to drink craft beer in the Bay Area Everyone knows Ghirardelli Square is the place for chocolate, but starting today (Thursday, May 26) the popular tourist attraction will also be getting its very own beer garden, at least for the duration of the summer. In time for the holiday weekend, Ghirardelli has partnered with Petaluma’s Lagunitas Brewing Co., along with San Francisco’s Hint Water, to host a 13 week-long pop-up brew fest. Читать дальше...

Nebraska senior softball player Mattie Fowler was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America first team Thursday.