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A day after the Obama administration put the brakes on a Midwest oil pipeline by denying a permit needed to finish the route, a spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump said the incoming administration supports completing the project.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A former firefighter who held four colleagues hostage at gunpoint after he was terminated from the suburban Philadelphia department where they all volunteered has been sentenced to at least a decade in prison.

The visit comes after Barack Obama went to Hiroshima with Shinzo Abe in August.

The gate once hung over Dachau's entrance, and says "Arbeit Macht Frei” ("Work Sets You Free").

Nebraska's highway system will have $16.6 billion in needs over the next 20 years, according to state transportation officials.

Santa isn't the only one with elves helping to make Christmas bright. Two University of Wisconsin-La Crosse biology department employees and their helpers have been making wooden toys for local children in need for 18 years.

The 23-year-old was the 12th overall pick in the 2011 draft but has yet to establish himself as an everyday NHL player.

OLDENZAAL – Bij een ongeluk tussen twee auto’s op de Enschedesestraat in Oldenzaal is maandagavond een persoon gewond geraakt. Het slachtoffer is per ambulance naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

Officials in San Antonio said the pit was 10- to 20-feet deep and the entire width of a two-lane road.

You don't have to have a passion for Pagliacci to know the life of a clown has a tragic dimension. Without going to operatic extremes, The Comedian, a movie starring Robert DeNiro as a standup potty-mouthed performer, has a dark side. DeNiro developed the project with Art Linson over eight years, he said at a panel last week for The Comedians at the Plaza Athenee. Robert DeNiro's comic side, honed in movies like Last Vegas to name one, and his huge heart as in his wise, sensitive father in say, Silver Linings Playbook... Читать дальше...

Daniel Ricciardo is ready to "unlock the hidden honey badger" when he starts training for next season's new-look Formula One.

Grants totaling more than $300 million over the next five years are being awarded to colleges and universities in the United States to research exotic solutions to US transportation bottlenecks, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced in a press release.

The postelection surge in the stock market doesn't mean we can't have a strong December as well, Sam Stovall says.

Donald Trump inherits this when he becomes president, but here are the statistics of Obama's record, NBC News reports.

In the first earnings report after its initial public offering, Coupa Software Inc. handily beat expectations, sending the company's stock up more than 5%. The cloud-software company, which helps companies manage their spending, reported a net loss of $6.7 million, or 36 cents a share, on revenue of $35.4 million. After adjustments for stock-based compensation and other factors, Coupa claimed a loss of 22 cents a share. Analysts on average expected an adjusted loss of 47 cents a share on sales of $31 million, according to FactSet. Читать дальше...

Imagine grocery shopping without lines, cashiers and registers. That’s what Amazon Go customers will experience soon, Amazon announced in a trailer  Monday. Amazon Go is not your typical supermarket. Instead, customers use the Amazon Go app to shop and all they'll need is an Amazon account, a supported smartphone and the app.

Donald Trump has signaled a desire to roll back rules on community banks that have felt burdened by the Dodd-Frank financial reform.

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Police arrested 28-year-old North Carolina man Edgar Maddison Welch on Sunday after he walked into a crowded Washington, D.C. pizzeria armed with an assault weapon and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said according to the Washington Post.

Though there were no reported injuries, the incident sparked a firestorm when it was reported that Welch's motivation for firing shots in the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria was a fake news story, now dubbed "Pizzagate." 

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A day after the Army Corps of Engineers blocked the proposed route for the Dakota Access Pipeline, the tribal leader said "nothing will happen" until the Trump administration begins.

The Trans Mountain project may soon resemble Standing Rock: a drawn-out battle fought in the courts and on the ground

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Gore has spent decades warning about the dire consequences of unchecked, man-made climate change, while Trump regularly called climate change "a hoax" during the campaign.

Move to allow ‘outposts’ on private Palestinian land in occupied territories

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday voted unanimously to repropose rules that would put limits on speculative positions in twenty-five physical commodity futures contracts and their "economically equivalent" options and swaps positions. This is the third time the agency has proposed such limits. One previous iteration was overturned by a federal count. The new rules were mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulatory law. The agency also reproposed a definition of bona fide hedging positions... Читать дальше...