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A 15-year-old Texas girl died by suicide on Saturday, two years after she was rescued from sex trafficking, her family says.  

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White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced that the administration has chosen the Trump National Doral Miami resort as the site for the next G-7 summit because "It's the best place." He denied Mr. Trump would profit from the high-profile event. Watch Mulvaney's remarks.

The Georgian parliament has approved Grigol Liluashvili as the new head of the Georgian State Security Service SSS replacing Vakhtang Gomelauri in the role Trend reports via the Georgian media outlets

Sebastien Roblin

Security, Asia

Old weapons, but a persistent threat.

Key point: South Korea is taking it seriously.

The North Korean People’s Air Force is predominantly composed of Soviet jet designs from the 1950s, or at least their Chinese clones, plus a smaller number of aircraft from the 1970s and 1980s. However, the most numerous aircraft in North Korean service is even more antiquated: a single-engine biplane transport that first flew in 1947. North Korea operates... Читать дальше...

US President Donald Trump hailed the news that Turkey agreed to halt its operation in Syria pending the withdrawal of Kurdish militia from the ‘safe zone’ along the border, crediting his “tough love” approach for the breakthrough.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Yashunn Hale isn’t sure he would call the police to report a crime. Not since an officer killed Hale’s neighbor in her home. Residents of Atatiana Jefferson’s Fort Worth neighborhood said they were hesitant to dial 911 even before a white officer shot the 28-year-old black woman through a bedroom […]

According to Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the University of California at Berkeley economists who developed that estimate, that is in part because the wealthiest American families declare only a small portion of their actual economic gains in any given year as income, while leaving the rest invested in stocks and other assets, to grow in value. Saez has been involved in a series of what are considered groundbreaking studies of U.S. income, inequality and economic mobility that involved both... Читать дальше...

On Tuesday, Google held their annual hardware event in New York City to announce all their upcoming products under the Pixel and Nest line. Vergecast hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn attended and were able to record an interview with Google’s hardware chief Rick Osterloh, the company’s senior vice president of devices and services.

Expect to see up to 25 meteors per hour when the Orionid meteor shower peaks this month.

The Senate Banking Committee chairman said he wants to revise legislation enabling banks to serve marijuana businesses to ensure it does not benefit vaping providers that have sparked safety concerns.

Most expect Jayson Tatum to enjoy a charmed life in Year 3 of his professional-basketball career. NBA general managers voted... Read More »

GM stock is falling as details of its contract deal with the UAW emerge

Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance says NC has 48 hours to repeal HB2 or lose NCAA events WTVD-TV

Mesut Ozil, his wife Amine and Sead Kolasinac were involved in a terrifying car-jacking two weeks before the Premier League season started.

Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus collided with another heavy vehicle near the Islamic holy city of Medina, Saudi state media says.

DENTISTS’ participation in the National Health Scheme (Gesy) is still up in the air, their association said on Thursday. In a statement, the association said their understanding is that in any case dentists, if they were to join Gesy, would do so during the second phase of the scheme, starting...

Jalen Ramsey wanted out of Jacksonville. But it was too late to hold out. So he held in. Ramsey embellished at best and fabricated at worst a magically-disappearing back injury that kept him from playing for three weeks, digging  in and reiterating his desire to be traded until the team traded him. The Jaguars could [more]

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Third-quarter revenue for Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , the Chinese technology giant blacklisted by the U.S. government, grew 24.4per cent from the same period a year earlier, according to the Global T

The White House is warning Chinese shipping companies against turning off their ships' transponders to hide Iranian oil shipments in violation of U.S. sanctions, two senior administration official

"He was our moral and ethical North Star. Now we will be guided by his powerful memory and incomparable legacy."

Ryan Babel, the Dutch international who was allowed a second chance to establish an international career by Ronald Koeman, said something recently that made me think: this group of Dutch players do not have many egos amongst them and so there is a better chance for success – or something down that line. I am with him all the way re this: the era of big, self-celebration egos of Sneijder, Van Persie and Arjen Robben is luckily behind us, and the current Oranje are much more of a team with... Читать дальше...

On Oct. 4, a Chinese trader noticed a sharp drop in the price of crypto tokens backed by Nike's Air Jordan sneakers on a U.S.-based exchange after the general manager of the NBA's Houston Rock