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Detroit is attracting young professionals and empty nesters to its downtown, where thousands of new jobs have been created and demand for high-end residences has surged. Photo: Trever Long for The Wall Street Journal

Bustle

The digital-media boom may not be over just yet.

Bustle, a media startup focused on creating content for millennial women, has raised $11.5 million in what its CEO Bryan Goldberg, who previously cofounded Bleacher Report, says was "the most oversubscribed round of my career."

Not many startups are able to say that these days, particularly as the doom and gloom of a potential market turn sets in. Over the past few years, it has been relatively easy for startups to raise... Читать дальше...

YouTube/US Soccer

In a rematch of a Women's World Cup semifinal match, the US Women's National Team faced Germany on Wednesday in the final of the SheBelieves Cup.

Things were not going well for the US until Alex Morgan unleashed one of the best goals of her career, evening things up in the 35th minute.

Morgan took a long pass from Meghan Klingenberg and deftly flicked the ball with her left foot over the defender's head. Before the ball came back down to the ground, Morgan... Читать дальше...

WOLFSBURG (ANP) - Volkswagen is van plan 10 procent van de administratieve banen te schrappen. Van de circa 3000 betreffende arbeidsplaatsen verdwijnt het merendeel in Duitsland. Dat meldden ingewijden bij het autoconcern aan het Duitse persbureau DPA.

Snapchat will feature 14 Live Stories throughout the March Madness tournament, which will air on Turner properties as well as on CBS

German politician Markus Frohnmaier believes that Europe needs a policy focused on having good relations with Russia, German newspaper Die Zeit wrote.

Kathalijne de Kruif (44) heeft donderdag door de rechtbank in Utrecht een taakstraf van 240 uur opgelegd gekregen wegens witwassen en valsheid in geschrifte. Ook werd zij veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van 6 maanden, waarvan 5 maanden voorwaardelijk. Dit werd eerder ook tegen haar geëist.

FCC officials soon will seek to impose new customer-privacy rules on Internet access providers, fueling industry conflict.

Ethiopia is the latest to have its credibility questioned after it was announced that six athletes are under investigation for doping.

WASHINGTON - The government would standardize the way airlines disclose fees for basic services like checked bags, seat assignments and ticket changes so that passengers can more easily comparison-shop the full cost of flights under a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government would standardize the way airlines disclose fees for basic services like checked bags, seat assignments and ticket changes so that passengers can more easily comparison-shop the full cost of flights under a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Wednesday. An FAA reauthorization bill that would have privatized air traffic control services was passed last month by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a mostly party-line vote with Democrats unanimously opposed. Читать дальше...

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hopes that Moscow and Belgrade would continue moving in "a positive direction".

Twitter has been sweetening employee compensation packages to retain talent as the company's user growth stalls and it stock price slides, the Journal reported.

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper repeatedly pressed Donald Trump on Wednesday about the authenticity of the steaks the Republican presidential frontrunner touted at his news conference the night before.

"Just a couple factual things. Those steaks you showed, those aren't actually Trump Steaks, right?" Cooper asked during an interview.

Trump insisted they were authentic.

"I buy them," Trump said. "I'm not going to kill the cow."

"Trump Steaks: We sell the steaks through my clubs," Trump continued... Читать дальше...

Republican front-runner Donald Trump once again lashed out at Muslims on Wednesday.

Modernisation expected to set venerable bourse on course out of market backwaters

A teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been put on paid administrative leave after being heavily criticized by the St. Paul affiliate chapter of Black Lives Matter for a controversial social media post, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday. The move comes a week after the group threatened “shutdown action” at Como Park Senior High School if the teacher, Theo Olson, was not fired for his comments.

Lockheed Martin/Angel Delcueto

A new poll from the University of Maryland indicates that the majority of Americans favor of cutting funding from the US defense budget in five out of seven major areas.

Specifically, they favor defunding one of the US' 11 aircraft carriers, and the F-35 Lightning II, DefenseNews.com reports.

“Given all the talk about increasing the defense budget, we were surprised to find how much Americans are not sold on increases, including a majority of Republicans nationwide,” said Steven Kull... Читать дальше...

A flu outbreak in schools in south west England has prompted health chiefs to urge parents to keep their children off school all week if they are ill.

Passengers in a taxi were filmed with a hidden camera and told that their driver was about to detonate a suicide vest.

Turn this shiz up !!!

We all collectively lost our minds when Zayn Malik dropped his first solo music video for "Pillow Talk"* in January.

*Or PiLlOwT4lK as it's written on the album cover.

Sony / Via youtube.com

But NOW he's done it again and surprised us by dropping ANOTHER song.

OMG!

Sony / Via youtube.com

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Donald Trump's victory speech on Tuesday for Michigan and Mississippi devolved into a bizarre infomercial about former and current Trump products that Mitt Romney had insulted. And while many of Trump's claims during the speech were (as usual) factually questionable, they did provide Stephen Colbert with a major insight.

The Hindu faith of a prospective US Supreme Court judge might be well-suited to the apex court bench, America’s academic and religious fraternity is suggesting, amid surge of interest in the religion of Sri Srinivasan, one of President Obama’s possible picks for the vacancy.

There are several ways that negative interest rate policy can have a positive effect on the economy, says Economist Paul Diggle.