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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Fishing industry and lawmakers on Thursday puzzled over the origins of a proposed one percent tax increase in fisheries business taxes and fishery resource landing taxes. In its current form, the bill increases by one percent three different tax rates within the Fisheries Business Tax structure, a tax on direct marketers and the tax on floating processors. The director of the department's Tax Division, Ken Alper, said he could provide the committee with the model used to determine the proposed tax rate... Читать дальше...

Transparency International says the state's secretive corporation registry eases the way for shady businesses

Citigroup raised CEO Michael Corbat's pay by an estimated 27 percent in 2015, a year in which the bank's profit more than doubled.

SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is bracing for any possible terror attacks from North Korea, an official said Friday. "The presidential office of national security is thoroughly in control of every situation related to terror," presidential

Now fully bilingual and a sought-after speak on political organization, the NDP agriculture critic feels she’s finally shed her demeaning nickname

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida - Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the first qualifying race Thursday night for the Daytona 500 to earn a starting spot on the second row for NASCAR's biggest event.

Malcolm Turnbull's ascendant Coalition government is bracing for a backlash from voters that could cost it as many as 10 seats.

Barring the Titans unloading the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft via trade, the Browns should have their pick of quarterbacks with the No. 2 pick. When new Browns associate head coach-offense Pep Hamilton met with reporters Thursday, he said the Browns have been working on evaluation of the players already on the…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Thursday he believes President Barack Obama will nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a little over three weeks.

President Barack Obama’s trip is intended to try to demonstrate progress in his embattled strategy of engaging America’s adversaries at a time of turmoil in the Middle East and rising tensions with Russia and China.

Outraged about Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson in the upcoming "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon"? The actor would, it seems, suggest that you check your upset and look at it from a different perspective — that of colorblind casting.

International students have asked London School of Business and Finance for their money back after it lost its border licence.

Noted Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo suggested that online gaming would prove to be the real Fall of Man someday.

Beautiful, strange, disturbing, "Embrace of the Serpent" is a film with a lot on its mind. Set in Colombia's Amazonian jungle and a foreign language Oscar finalist, it's simultaneously a lament, a warning and a celebration of the lost and destroyed tribes of that region, "all the people we will...

AMHERST, Massachusetts - The University of Massachusetts has ended a shelter-in-place order issued after a report of one or two possible "hostile armed" people at a dormitory on its Amherst campus.

University spokesman Daniel Fitzgibbons says the campus-wide alert was issued in the late afternoon after a student reported seeing a man with a gun. The university said earlier campus police interviewed witnesses and set up a perimeter around Pierpont Hall, which caters to first-year students.

INDIANAPOLIS - The chairman of Indiana's Democratic Party called Thursday for the firing of a State Board of Education official who altered a report that detailed a so-called independent investigation into the troubled and unpopular standardized ISTEP standardized exam.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The chairman of Indiana's Democratic Party called Thursday for the firing of a State Board of Education official who altered a report that detailed a so-called independent investigation into the troubled and unpopular standardized ISTEP standardized exam. Some passages Snethen altered or asked to change were critical of a decision by Republican Gov. Mike Pence and his GOP allies to adopt last year's exam after dropping national Common Core math and English standards in favor... Читать дальше...

CEO of Russian energy giant Gazprom Alexey Miller has discussed cooperation in the energy sphere with Bolivian President Evo Morales.

SEATTLE - Nordstrom Inc. shares slumped in extended trading Thursday after the retailer reported disappointing results for the holiday season.

SEATTLE (AP) — Nordstrom Inc. shares slumped in extended trading Thursday after the retailer reported disappointing results for the holiday season. The Seattle-based company said it earned a fourth-quarter profit of $180 million, or $1 per share. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.22 per share. The retailer also said that it has reduced its expenses and capital investments in response to current sales trends, but it didn't provide specifics.

RYAN Crowley has impressed again during Essendon’s intra-club on Friday morning, while Christian Salem and Jesse Hogan stood out at Melbourne. RECAP THE ACTION

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is all over New York Fashion Week, from the runway designs to the celebrity-filled front rows. Here are some recent highlights:

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - T.J. Cromer scored 17 points, Isaac Banks pulled down a career-high 18 rebounds and had 10 points and East Tennessee State defeated The Citadel 67-51 on Thursday night.