L. Chris Stewart, the lawyer for the family of Walter L. Scott, the black man who was shot dead by the former South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slager, spoke after news of Mr. Slager's mistrial, as did Mr. Scott's mother. Mr. Stewart said that the officer had "delayed" justice but that he would not "escape" it.
CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland-area man accused of breaking into two homes and kidnapping and raping a girl and trying to abduct another within the past year scouted out his victims, authorities said Monday.
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NEW YORK — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says he is "cautiously optimistic" that parent company Verizon's plan to acquire Yahoo will go through.
Verizon announced its intentions to buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion in July this year, but the deal has taken a long time to close after Yahoo admitted in September it had suffered a catastrophic hack affecting more than 500 million accounts.
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Trump's tariff threats may be a useful tool to keep jobs from moving out of the country, Scott Paul says.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court Monday upheld the conviction of Mohamed Mohamud, the Somali American sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb downtown Portland during the annual lighting of a Christmas tree.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial Monday after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist.
California’s legislature kicked off its new session on Monday by taking steps to protect undocumented immigrants during President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
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JERUSALEM — The Israeli parliament has given initial approval to a revised bill that would legalize scores of Israeli settlement outposts built without permission on private Palestinian land in the West Bank, but would allow for the court-ordered demolition of one such outpost this month.
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Casey Affleck, the 41-year-old younger brother of Ben, is predicted to win an Oscar for his starring role in Kenneth Lonergan’s New England family drama Manchester by the Sea. He posed for the cover of Variety in October, offered himself up for a New York Times profile earlier this month, and appeared on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend to push the narrative that has coalesced around his campaign: He is Boston’s humble, overlooked kid brother who deserves to finally get some recognition for his talent. Читать дальше...
The founder of a ramshackle Oakland artists' colony where dozens of people burned to death saw himself as a kind of guru and loved to surround himself with followers but showed chilling disregard for their well-being, according to relatives, neighbors and other acquaintances. Derick Ion Almena, 46, leased and ...
Journalists from all corners of the internet turned to Twitter on Monday evening to slam New York Times public editor Liz Spayd for calling certain tweets authored by Times journalists during the campaign “outrageous," with some even calling for her to submit her resignation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump chose retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, raising fresh concerns about the lack of experience some of Trump's Cabinet picks have with agencies…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump chose retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, raising fresh concerns about the lack of experience some of Trump's Cabinet picks have with agencies…
The Chinese might just have answered Donald Trump.
Insulin prices have rising — increases that mean some people are spending as much on monthly diabetes-related expenses as their mortgage payment.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli parliament has given initial approval to a revised bill that would legalize scores of Israeli settlement outposts built without permission on private Palestinian land in the West Bank, but would allow for the court-ordered demolition…
Whistleblower website Football Leaks, cited by French outlet Le Soir, claims the centre-back can leave White Hart Lane for just £25 million
So you no longer have to be *that* friend asking everyone if they have a charger.
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Sunday marked the third time in less than five months that we’ve had a major political event trigger a market response.
The outcome of the first of such, Brexit, took the market by surprise and caused major declines across much of the global financial markets. However, after having gotten himself into quite the tizzy, Mr. Market shortly decided, “Ehhh, maybe not such a bad thing,” and the market not only recovered but climbed higher in the ensuing weeks.
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No one who obtained a counterfeit US visa at the fake embassy in Ghana used it to enter the United States, Department of State spokesman Mark Toner said on Monday.
Police killers will spend the rest of their lives behind bars under new Victorian laws to deny police murderers parole.
These are the stocks posting the largest moves after the bell on Monday, including Amazon, TherapeuticsMD and more.
Amazon
Amazon's original series "The Man in the High Castle" has quickly become known for its provocative marketing.
Last year, advertisements for the first season of the show — which depicts a world in which the Allies lost World War II — included seats in New York City subway cars on its shuttle line between Times Square and Grand Central covered in the US flag with a German imperial eagle and iron crosses on one side and Japanese rising-sun flags on the other.
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