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WASHINGTON (AP) — Meet the new boss. Confronting the same tea party challenges as the old boss.

The Wisconsin Republican has built a congressional career as the Republican Party's budget savant, but Ryan is perhaps in his career's most difficult bind as he tries to engineer passage of an alternative to President Barack Obama's $4.1 trillion budget that he sent to Congress on Tuesday. Republican defense hawks combined with Democrats seeking relief from a squeeze on domestic programs to power the increases forward, and it was Boehner's final major accomplishment as he cleared away unfinished business for Ryan. Читать дальше...

City finances are worse than the mayor presented in his $82 billion budget last month, City Controller Scott Stringer said Wednesday.

The two Ligue 1 sides go head-to-head at the Parc des Princes with a place in the Coupe de France quarter-finals up for grabs

The January surplus was up from an $18 billion deficit in the same month a year ago, the Treasury Department said.

Push-up bras suck.

​"You gave me life, and now it's my turn to give it back.​"​​

The City is already asking who will be involved in the next round of retail M&A

The Jays decided to make the changes to their stadium after the Canadian Football League’s Argonauts moved to nearby BMO Field

Food and drink giant Nestle ends its sponsorship of the IAAF, as it fears the doping scandal engulfing the world athletics governing body could damage its reputation.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A New York state nominee for dad of the year wrote his 12-year-old daughter a tardiness excuse note that told the truth: She was at a Springsteen concert.

Every year, thousands of people flock to the town of Paraty in Brazil to attend the Bloco da Lama Carnival. Everyone lathers their bodies in thick mud as they sing and dance by water.

Famed Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates finally confessed to whom he’s supporting in the Democratic primary. It seems the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient is feeling the Bern.

The Corvallis Youth Symphony Orchestra is planning a sweet and hot evening on Saturday, starting with dessert and followed with a chaser of music, including a dose of hot jazz.

Ted Cruz doesn't like the law that requires the use of ethanol in gasoline. So what would happen if it was abolished? The surprising answer: not much, probably.

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had arthroscopic knee surgery shortly after the team’s season-ending loss to the Cardinals in the playoffs. The operation was described as a minor clean-up procedure that isn’t expected to have much, if any, impact on Rodgers’ preparation for the 2016 season. Rodgers’ schedule for this week suggests that’s an accurate assessment. Rodgers…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A weathered pastel image of the Virgin of Guadalupe hangs from German Herrera Hernandez's dashboard, watching over his passengers from her perch next to his cigarettes, gum …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A weathered pastel image of the Virgin of Guadalupe hangs from German Herrera Hernandez's dashboard, watching over his passengers from her perch next to his cigarettes, gum …

I'm no expert on teenage girls, aside from the fact that I was one once -- but I gained a 17-year-old daughter a few summers ago, and as the mother of two young boys I wasn't 100 percent sure what to expect. Most people told me it was going to end horribly (including a few members of her family), but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise, and that summer was as much a learning experience for me as it was for her.

I learned that if kids are given the opportunity to rise to the occasion, they most likely will. Читать дальше...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP

For nearly 50 years, Sirhan Sirhan has been consistent: He says he doesn't remember fatally shooting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a crowded kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

The Jerusalem native, now 71, has given no inkling that he will change his version of events at his 15th parole hearing on Wednesday in San Diego.

He is serving a life sentence that was commuted from death when the California... Читать дальше...

Rebecca Minkoff is trying a radical experiment with her collection this New York fashion week: showing clothes women can actually wear soon. WSJ's Elizabeth Holmes and Rebecca Minkoff CEO Uri Minkoff join Tanya Rivero. Photo: Rebecca Minkoff

Italy's 1982 World Cup winning captain has described the Serie A league leaders' trip to last season's champions as a "Scudetto" match

LONDON (AP) — For Britain and the European Union, they are three little words that expose big philosophical differences: "Ever closer union."

LONDON (AP) — For Britain and the European Union, they are three little words that expose big philosophical differences: "Ever closer union."

EEAS stated that NATO Computer Incident Response Capability and the Computer Emergency Response Team – European Union signed an agreement to enhance cooperation in the sphere of cyberdefense.