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LONDON (AP) — The British government says the publicly funded BBC must reveal the salaries of all staff and presenters earning more than 150,000 pounds ($198,000) a year.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The city of Davenport, Iowa, has pulled the plug on its taxpayer-funded news website, which faced a backlash from critics who called it propaganda but also won praise for its innovative approach to communications. [...] it was attacked by critics as an inappropriate jump into the media by government and a misuse of taxpayer money that could be better spent fighting fires and fixing potholes. Staffers wrote about everything from road closings to business openings and high school sports. Читать дальше...

Viewers were stunned when two men stormed the stage during the live broadcast of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” Season 23 premiere. Security swiftly tackled the protesters — later identified as Sam Sotoodeh and Barzeen Soroudi — and handed them off to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Grapefruit on elbows, gasoline on split ends — my friends and I did it all, and (barely) lived to tell the tale.

Ratings: ‘America’s Got Talent’ Scores Biggest Season Finale in 5 Years NBC summer competition crowns a champ, soars 29 percent above 2015 “America’s Got Talent” soared 29 percent year over year last night with its season finale, reaching its top marks for a run’s ending episode in five years. Not surprisingly, NBC crushed its broadcast competition on the evening, as “AGT” offered a strong lead-in for “Blindspot” sampling. NBC was first in ratings with a 2.3 rating/9 share in the advertiser-coveted... Читать дальше...

Their compassion towards the bird has forced their dad to stop its slaughter. This video of compassion will move you.

Guys with early-stage prostate cancer may want to watch and wait before going under the knife.

Burgemeester van Tilburg Peter Noordanus heeft justitie gevraagd onderzoek te doen naar het uitkeringsverleden van rapper Boef. ,,De burgemeester heeft te horen gekregen dat deze man in het verleden een Wajong-uitkering had. Tegelijkertijd had hij ook andere inkomsten'', zei de woordvoerder van Noordanus donderdag .

WASHINGTON ― Jason Kander, the Democratic challenger trying to unseat Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) in November, is calling out Blunt for not supporting tighter background checks on gun sales ― and in a way that only someone with Kander’s military background could do.

This Sunday, Sept. 18, Hollywood’s finest will gather for the Emmy Awards, in a no-doubt impressive parade of tastefully styled designer gowns. But not too many years ago, things were different.

A fascinating nine-day escorted tour through Croatia and Bosnia in the company of the former BBC foreign correspondent

Andrew V. Pestano
CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Australian officials on Thursday said a large flap airplane section recovered near the Tanzanian coast belongs to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

From absquatulate to vituperative, via Word Warriors.

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She really loved to surf.

TripAdvisor reviewers ranked the USS Midway Museum in San Diego and the Getty Center in Brentwood as two of the 10 best museums in the U.S. The sites join a list that begins with the No. 1 ranked Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

One of the most closely watched - and big-spending - ballot initiatives this fall is Proposition 61, a measure that seeks to limit the price state agencies pay for prescription drugs.  The proposal on the Nov. 8 ballot is the latest battleground in a national debate about rising drug prices, and...

Capital levels "have historically not had much predictive power for bank failures," Summers and a co-author assert.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Kamil Fabisiak and Tadeusz Kruszelnicki of Poland embrace each other after beating an Australian pai...

Throughout her career, Nicki Minaj has dodged claims about having someone else write her lyrics but now, rapper Rah Digga is accusing “The Pinkprint” rapper of using a ghostwriter.

There’s nothing we love more than a guy with great style, especially on television, and this year’s list of Emmy nominees has plenty of them.

There’s nothing we love more than a guy with great style, especially on television, and this year’s list of Emmy nominees has plenty of them.