The ratings-record-setting Republican debate last Thursday was an even bigger winner for Fox News than the most widely reported figure suggests, according to Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
Labour's Cluase IV, which advocated 'common ownership of the means of production' was scrapped by Tony Blair 20 years ago.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Democratic Party's annual dinner celebration is getting a new name. The party's State Central Committee voted Saturday in favor of a resolution to change the name of the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, which was named for Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both presidents were slave owners, and Jackson is known for the forced removal of Cherokee Indians from their land. The name change will take place after this year's dinner. Iowa Democratic Party Chairman... Читать дальше...
Mahbub Alam, deputy commissioner (east) of DB, told reporters that the FBI would provide technical assistance if Bangladesh detectives need any help in the investigation of the killing.
One of the many bizarre proposals in the Government’s Immigration Bill states that public-sector workers in “customer-facing” jobs will need to be fluent in English. Because apparently, of all the things wrong with our austerity-slashed, near-crippled public services, the most worrying one is that staff might not be speaking the most loquacious form of English.
The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Sunday said its protest against Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was "right" and its leaders were prepared to justify their action if summoned to reply to a parliamentary privilege motion.
On Saturday night at the Sundance Next Fest at the Ace Hotel in downtown L.A., the noise band Health premiered a new short-film collaboration with the 80-year-old video editor and designer Pablo Ferro.
A local businessman has funded the wedding ceremony of 32 couples from impoverished families in northern Samangan province. The wedding ceremony was organized in Aibak, the provincial capital of Samangan, and around 3,000 people attended it. At the end of the wedding ceremony each couple was given $500 and the urgent home appliances to start Read the full article...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police in Tulsa say the owner of a small restaurant may have been shot to death, rather than stabbed as initially suspected. Sgt. Dave Walker says 65-year-old James Coulson was found dead inside Teds Hamburgers on Friday by an employee who called police and said his boss had been stabbed to death. Police initially reported the death as a stabbing. Walker says that officers and an investigator with the state medical examiner's office now suspect Coulson was likely shot. The body... Читать дальше...
Washington is using its fight against the notorious Islamic State as a smokescreen to deal a lethal blow to Syria and its democratically elected leader President Bashar al-Assad, Western experts say.
Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada on Sunday joined the elite off road movement with the first off-roading event — 4X4 Nature Trail and Skill Drive — taking off Maddadka, about 50 kms from here.
The Crane Lake DFLer was first elected to the House in 2002.
Boeing changed the technical specifications of its aircraft. From now on, they will fly shorter distances than before, German media reported.
I was spending a week in the Great Smoky Mountains, looking ahead days of camping, white-water rafting, canoeing and swimming in a genuine swimming hole. It sounds like a dream vacation, right? Just one catch: I was chaperoning 34 teenagers. For six days.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus Saturday to remember professor and theater director Lee Harvey Salisbury. The more-than-two-hour memorial service drew friends, family, musicians, colleagues, even politicians, reported the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1NjEddJ ). The group met in the theater named after Salisbury, who pushed for its construction in the 1960s. Salisbury, who launched the school's drama program in the 1950s, died in March. Читать дальше...
DENVER - Beneath the western United States lie thousands of old mining tunnels filled with the same toxic stew that spilled into a Colorado river last week, turning it into a nauseating yellow concoction and stoking alarm about contamination of drinking water.
DENVER (AP) — Beneath the western United States lie thousands of old mining tunnels filled with the same toxic stew that spilled into a Colorado river last week, turning it into a nauseating yellow concoction and stoking alarm about contamination of drinking water. Though the spill into the Animas River in southern Colorado spill is unusual for its size, it's only the latest instance of the region grappling with the toxic legacy of a mining boom. Until the late 1970s there were no regulations on mining in most of the region... Читать дальше...
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Prerace coverage of the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen will begin on NBCSN at 1:30 p.m. ET with Countdown To Green.
Only events that can be judged by a stopwatch, tape measure or set of scales should be allowed
A Chicago-bound United Express flight was diverted to Indianapolis after unexpectedly dropping mid-air.
Five children and three adults were found dead in a Texas home on Saturday night after a police stand-off, authorities said.