The trial for the Berkeley County School District communications director accused of using her position to promote the Yes 4 Schools campaign in 2012 could start on Sept. 21, according to a Wednesday court hearing.
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SANDOWN, N.H. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is making a pragmatic pitch to voters as he begins his uphill fight for the Republican presidential nomination.
UNITED NATIONS, July 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday blacklisted six rival military commanders in South Sudan for threatening the peace and stability of the world's newest state, diplomats said.
ROEBUCK, S.C. — Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the shooting death of a man at a home in Roebuck.
Several hundred Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem Wednesday evening, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act against a recent surge in deadly attacks carried out by Palestinians.
Amateur video filmed by a local man and obtained by Reuters, captures the harrowing moments during and after the June 26 attack on tourists in a Sousse resort in Tunisia. Some viewers may find the images disturbing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Amateur video filmed by a local man and obtained by Reuters, captures the harrowing moments during and after the June 26 attack on tourists in a Sousse resort in Tunisia. Some viewers may find the images disturbing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Amateur video filmed by a local man and obtained by Reuters, captures the harrowing moments during and after the June 26 attack on tourists in a Sousse resort in Tunisia. Some viewers may find the images disturbing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Amateur video filmed by a local man and obtained by Reuters, captures the harrowing moments during and after the June 26 attack on tourists in a Sousse resort in Tunisia. Some viewers may find the images disturbing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Amateur video filmed by a local man and obtained by Reuters, captures the harrowing moments during and after the June 26 attack on tourists in a Sousse resort in Tunisia. Some viewers may find the images disturbing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Charleston police are searching for a Summerville man who is wanted for second-degree burglary and grand larceny.
OCRACOKE, N.C. — A shark bit a 68-year-old man several times Wednesday in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, officials said, the seventh attack in the state’s coastal waters in less than three weeks.
July 1 (Reuters) - Real estate developer Donald Trump's string of luxury hotel properties, The Trump Hotel Collection, could be the latest victim of credit card breach, KrebsonSecurity reported, citing data shared by several U.S.-based banks.
ISMAILIA, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army said on Wednesday more than 100 militants and 17 soldiers were killed in simultaneous attacks on military checkpoints in North Sinai, in the most sustained fighting of its kind in years in the restive province.
Parliament could be asked to authorise British air strikes against Isis positions in Syria within months, it has emerged, as part of the UK’s response to the attack on holiday-makers in Tunisia. The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, said MPs would need to think “very carefully” about how to tackle an “evil caliphate” that did not respect national borders.
July 1 (Reuters) - AlphaBridge Capital Management LLC and its owners will pay $5 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they fraudulently inflated the prices of mortgage-backed securities in their hedge fund portfolios to boost fees.
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Читать дальше...NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) - Global investors are hedged against a potential exit of Greece from the euro zone ahead of Sunday's referendum, but they're not betting on a huge fallout in financial markets even if there is a negative outcome.
John Palmer, one of Britain’s wealthiest and most notorious criminals whose nickname was “Goldfinger”, was murdered, police have said.
BRUSSELS, July 1 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers told Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday that they would review his request for a new bailout loan in the light of how Greeks vote on Sunday in the referendum he has called on credit terms.
HOUSTON, July 1 (Reuters) - A surge in West Texas oil pipeline startups and expansions has squeezed viability of some crude-by-rail terminals in the region, but increased output of ultra-light condensate could give them a niche pipelines cannot fill, a top rail operator in the region said on Wednesday.
SAO PAULO, July 1 (Reuters) - A Braskem SA shareholder has sued the Brazilian petrochemical producer, accusing it of being involved in a graft scandal that has engulfed key stakeholders Odebrecht and Petrobras and led to a selloff in Braskem's U.S.-traded stock.
FRANKFURT, July 1 (Reuters) - Euro zone central bank chiefs kept their existing cap on a funding lifeline to Greece in place on Wednesday, the ECB said, a move that keeps pressure on Greece as its lenders run out of cash.
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