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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Striking union members chanted, banged drums and blew whistles as part of a raucous picket line outside the Trump Taj Mahal casino Friday amid a contract dispute with owner and billionaire investor Carl Icahn at…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three leading cast members of the TV fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" are appealing to European leaders to ease restrictions on refugees trying to reach the continent.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three leading cast members of the TV fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" are appealing to European leaders to ease restrictions on refugees trying to reach the continent.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three leading cast members of the TV fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" are appealing to European leaders to ease restrictions on refugees trying to reach the continent.

Eyeing a new technology that enables it to put self-driving cars on the road by around 2021, automobile major BMW will team up with Intel and Mobileye.

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is preparing for its Super Bowl moment.

International Fight Week is just around the corner, building up to UFC 200, which takes place on July 9.

The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas is playing host to some huge fights, including current champion Daniel Cormier and former champion Jon Jones' rematch, WWE star Brock Lesnar versus Mark Hunt in the heavyweight division, and Cat Zingano and Julianna Pena fighting to win the women's bantamweight bout. Читать дальше...

American manufacturing expanded for the fourth straight month in June, hitting the strongest reading in 16 months as the outlook for new orders and production improved.

A large, representative study of American women finds that 84 percent do some landscaping down there, and 40 percent of them do it before they go to the doctor.

Yulia Stepanova, the Russian 800-meter runner who provided authorities with inside information on doping in her country, has taken a big step toward competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics as a “neutral” athlete.

Tourists who want to experience Israel from the seat of a bike may want to tag along with a company called Puzzle Israel in November.

A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a family traveling in a car in the West Bank on Friday, killing an Israeli man and wounding his wife and two teenage children. Hours earlier, police said a Palestinian woman was ...

Kate Ter Haar

Do you consider yourself a money-conscious person? Do you wait for your favorite brands to go on sale? Do you confidently say, "I don't need this" to every piece of decor at Target?

Good for you! You're probably still wasting your money.

The internet is littered with money-saving tip lists, most of which aren't very helpful.

OK, this article is yet another a list of money-saving tips, but we're not going to tell you to spend hours clipping coupons, or to swap hot showers for cold. Читать дальше...

Andrew Davies

Security,

You decide. 

Last year I wrote a series for The Strategist on the US Air Forces’ (USAF) new bomber program. (Parts one, two and three.) I was skeptical of the possibility of producing a state-of-the-art long range bomber for anything like the proposed unit cost of US$550 million (2010 dollars). The historical trend (see part 2) suggested a significantly higher price. But I also observed that bomber costs ‘hit the wall’ with the B-2 and that new approaches are needed. Читать дальше...

Juncker invited British authorities to "make their intentions clear" following the June 23 vote to leave the EU.

By Robert Kieckhefer, UPI Racing Writer
The Queen's Plate in Canada, Durban July in South Africa, Coral-Eclipse in England, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in France and two Breeders' Cup qualifiers in the US comprise a busy racing weekend

ENSCHEDE - Ook bij de brandweerkazerne aan de Zuiderval in Enschede wordt actiegevoerd tegen de verhoging van de leeftijd voor het vroegpensioen. Aan de kazerne hangen grote spandoeken met de tekst 'Van held in de brand naar de bijstand' en 'Je bent een rund als je met de brandweer stunt'. De brandweer gaat mogelijk een aantal publieksvriendelijke acties houden.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on Atlantic City's main casino workers union and its strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino (all times local):

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on Atlantic City's main casino workers union and its strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino (all times local):

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on Atlantic City's main casino workers union and its strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino (all times local):

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on Atlantic City's main casino workers union and its strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino (all times local):

Striking union members are chanting, banging drums and blowing whistles as part of a raucous picket line outside Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino. About 1,000 members of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union began walking off the job at 6 a.m. Friday amid a contract dispute with owner and billionaire investor Carl Icahn at the start of the busiest weekend of the year for the casino industry. Casino management ordered striking employees to remove their cars from the parking garage, and security officials filmed the protests from a balcony. Читать дальше...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on Atlantic City's main casino workers union and its strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino (all times local):

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The big automakers will announce their sales numbers for June throughout Friday. 

Economists estimate that total vehicle sales rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 17.30 million, according to Bloomberg. That's not much lower than the 17.37 million rate reported in May. 

Analysts are debating whether this rate has peaked, following a record year 2015.

Last month, two of the so-called Big Three in the auto industry — GM and Ford — reported sales declines that were larger than expected. Читать дальше...