LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers kicked off a debate Wednesday on a "right to farm" measure that would restrict the state's power to regulate agriculture.
Belgian security and intelligence services, along with other Western intelligence agencies, had advance warnings about the March 22 attack in Brussels, according to Haaretz.
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Rio de Janeiro's cash-strapped state government has announced it is to slash around $500 million from its security budget — less than six months before the city hosts this year's Olympic Games.
The announcement has inevitably created doubts over Rio's ability to guarantee the safety of visitors to the city during the Games.
In the light of this week's attacks in Belgium, it has also raised questions over just how prepared Brazil is to deal with potential terrorist atrocities. Читать дальше...
Figure represents first foreigner to go on display in museum where Slobodan Milosevic, the notorious president accused of war criminal, is among the exhibits
Figure represents first foreigner to go on display in museum where Slobodan Milosevic, the notorious president accused of war criminal, is among the exhibits
The US Air Force ordered a $4.8 million contract to continue work on a counter electronics, high-powered microwave weapon.
World No.34 Daria Gavrilova has won her appeal to play in the Fed Cup for Australia.
Neither of Ontario’s signature projects received as significant funding from the federal spending plan as some might have expected
It was a single faulty cable that sparked peak-hour train chaos across Melbourne on Wednesday night.
BOSTON - Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry is not starting and not expected to play against the Celtics as he rests a sore right elbow.
Four American Indians spent the morning Wednesday helping to repaint a faded sign on Alcatraz, the grim prison island. Just to be sure the message was clear, the four added a drawing of crossed tomahawks. The National Park Service, which owns Alcatraz, calls the signs “historic graffiti,” painted on the wall in 1970 during a 19-month Indian occupation of the island. More than 1.3 million visitors come to the Rock every year, drawn by its legendary reputation. The prison will always be No. 1,” Martinez said... Читать дальше...
A Defense Department official admitted Wednesday that Americans "have died because of" detainees released from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.
Twice as many police will be on hand for the first AFL game of the season on Thursday night, with Premier Daniel Andrews saying he's determined to 'never let these evil murderers win'.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is expected to surpass the US multinational firm WalMart soon as the world's largest retail platform with its total trading volume this fiscal year set to exceed $463.3 billion, an official media reported on Wednesday.
Used car prices decline at fastest pace in more than three years
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The NFL disagrees with the players’ union’s contention that the league has changed course in talks about potentially changing the league’s disciplinary process. NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith sent an email to the union’s executive committee and said that the NFL has taken “a massive step backwards from where negotiations stood several weeks…
A man who spent about 25 hours near the top of an 80-foot-tall tree in downtown Seattle has finally descended safely, having transfixed the city and the Internet and straining police negotiators
On Tuesday morning, four men brought utter carnage to the city of Brussels, setting off bombs in an airport and onboard a train that left 32 dead and hundreds wounded.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame coach Mike Brey believes luck just might be on the side of the Irish.
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Al Qaeda is employing a strategy that might help the terror group outlast ISIS in Syria, and it's revealing its true jihadist endgame in the process.
As a different terrorist group, ISIS (also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh) claims responsibility for a terrorist attack in Belgium, Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front (also known as Jabhat al-Nusra) is flying under the radar, hoping to continue gaining influence in Syria.
And experts think... Читать дальше...
Candidates for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat look to capitalize on momentum
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The Philadelphia Eagles reached agreement Wednesday with former New York Giants wide receiver Rueben Randle on a one-year contract.