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Underscoring the hardball tactics that lie ahead, a major Republican opposition research organization said Tuesday it was starting to investigate the backgrounds of potential court nominees. "After any nomination is made, there's always a story about mom, dad and apple pie and how wonderfully moderate any nominee is and the consensus, sterling credentials," said Brian Rogers, executive director of America Rising Squared. America Rising Squared is also looking for past statements by Democratic senators... Читать дальше...

At 78, he made last year’s treasure, “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, ” and his masterpiece is the haunting “Grave of the Fireflies” (1988), about a brother and sister caught in World War II. For its 25th anniversary, the young office worker, Taeko, is voiced by Daisy Ridley, the breakout lead of Star Wars: Made in Northern California’s Gold Country, it is a mixture of fiction and documentary (Brown dubs it a “fictumentary”) about six small-town teens and their lives as high school graduation day approaches. Читать дальше...

As Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton made stops in Minnesota, voters from Vermont to Colorado, Alaska to American Samoa and a host of states in between were heading to polling places and caucus sites on the busiest day of the 2016 primaries.

“There’s a lot of baggage that comes along with our family, but it’s, like, Louis Vuitton baggage.”

Where y’ longs to? This quiz will test ya.

TORONTO - A spike in oil prices helped push the Toronto stock market sharply higher, while the loonie got a solid boost from some encouraging economic data from Ottawa.

According to children’s charity Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM), there were several documented cases of child sacrifice in several districts of central Uganda during the recent election period.

According to children’s charity Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM), there were several documented cases of child sacrifice in several districts of central Uganda during the recent election period.

Astronaut Scott Kelly closes the door Tuesday to an unprecedented year in space for NASA, flying back to the planet and loved ones he left behind last March. Kelly and his roommate for the past 340 days, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, check out of the International Space Station on ...

If your parents are living in a home worth $1-million-plus but living like paupers, it might be time to step in — and tax season offers an ideal time to start the conversation

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Due to high altitude winds, Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX will postpone its second launch of the year for this Friday.

"Pushing launch to Friday due to extreme high altitude wind shear. Hits like a sledgehammer when going up supersonic," Musk Tweeted.

This is the fourth time in one week — since last Wednesday — that SpaceX has postponed its mission to launch the Boeing-made SES-9 satellite into space.

Cancellations aren't necessarily a sign that anything is wrong. Читать дальше...

Day three of Cardinal George Pell's testimony to the abuse royal commission in Rome

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s government will begin printing larger-denominated bank notes sometime this year, a top finance official said, as runaway inflation has eroded the value of the nation’s biggest bill to less than a U.S. dime on the black market. Venezuela’s economy shrank 5.7 percent last year while shortages of basic goods multiplied, adding to social tensions and undermining support for President Nicolas Maduro, whose socialist party lost congressional elections in December by a landslide. Читать дальше...

Nearly a decade post its glitzy launch, the multi-crore Aliens Space Station-I project has turned into a nightmare for its 400-odd customers.

We were never supposed to hear Rihanna's "Work" like this.

Jason Derulo and Luke Bryan will shake up CMT Crossroads when the singers appear on the musical mash-up series this summer. Girl Gets Her Wisdom...

What's the Flux?: Commuter Dispatches explores the commute through the eyes of bus riders. How would you describe your commute? So far we've heard boring, frustrating and long to name a few. Does that sound familiar? Share your commute story with us.

If Australia's near $45 billion telecommunications market can be compared to an ocean, then its second-biggest company Singtel-Optus is an able swimmer currently treading water. But it must do more to thrive.

FBI Director James Comey and Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell testify at the first hearing on encryption. Apple is challenging a federal court order requested by the FBI that would force the tech company to write special software to help investigators crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. … Click to Continue »

The city's awkward relationship with auctions looks set to continue this year.

Shauna Bennett arrested for abandonment of a child, after an officer found that the girl "had not been fed, washed, or provided with any type of general medical care"

In photographs selected by Wall Street Journal editors on Tuesday, a child goes airborne on a sled in Prague, a man swims in the Mediterranean off Nice, France, primary voting gets under way in Vermont and more.

Kirby says the suburban Chicago attorney who filed the complaint, Lawrence Joyce, failed to give a copy of it to Cruz or state electoral board members, as required by Illinois law. Joyce says the Texas senator can't be president because he wasn't born in the U.S. Cruz and some legal experts say he's eligible because his mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born.

Sunderland 2 Crystal Palace 2: A magnificent late strike from Fabio Borini lifted Sam Allardyce's side out of the bottom three for only the second time this season

NEW YORK - The head of an international metallurgical company has been arrested on charges he illegally exported to Iran a specialized powder used in aerospace and in building missiles, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.