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Bulldozers and demolition crews have started the removal of former Navy buildings on Yerba Buena Island. In late 2018, 285 of the condos will be offered for sale at market rate and 15 will be rented at a below-market rate. Following demolition, crews will pour concrete for new roads, build parks and shoreline open space, and make geotechnical adjustments to better shield the island from earthquakes and sea level rise. “A lot of smart people have devoted thousands of hours in crafting plans for these islands,” said Chris Meany... Читать дальше...

The crisis facing the British steel industry amid plans by Tata to sell its UK business dominates the front pages.

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich are backpedaling on their public commitments to back the GOP’s eventual nominee. WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports.

Lieutenant Brian Murphy, who received 15 bullets protecting people at the gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, raised the issue of Sikh rights with Republican presidential candidate hopeful Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Surgeons performed the surgery as part of a medical study.

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Rejecting Pakistan’s allegation that Kulbhushan Jadhav is an Indian spy and was carrying out “subversive activities” in Balochistan, a family member said Jadhav owns a cargo business in Iran and ferried small cargo from Bandar-Abbas and Chabahar ports.

He begins the job of bringing the Badgers back with Don Granato and Mark Osiecki as associate head coaches.

BOWLING

Republican frontrunner says women should be punished, then backtracks

Republican frontrunner says women should be punished

Mosquito species that carry the dangerous Zika virus may inhabit a wider range of North America than previously thought.

Futures pointed to a higher open for Asia markets on Thursday, after U.S. stocks extended gains overnight.

MetLife Inc.’s victory in its legal showdown with the U.S. is a major setback in efforts to tighten regulation of the insurance industry. But it is not expected to slow plans under way to break up the nation’s largest life insurer.

MetLife Inc.’s victory in its legal showdown with the U.S. is a major setback in efforts to tighten regulation of the insurance industry. But it is not expected to slow plans under way to break up the nation’s largest life insurer.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's governor says people searching for Iceland online are finding her state instead because of a goof in its tourism video and she's hoping they'll visit.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's governor says people searching for Iceland online are finding her state instead because of a goof in its tourism video and she's hoping they'll visit.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's governor says people searching for Iceland online are finding her state instead because of a goof in its tourism video and she's hoping they'll visit.

A Rohtak court on Wednesday granted bail to Prof Virender Singh, aide of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda, in a sedition case.Virender was on remand for the past 14 days.

The past year has been marked with some positive signs for law schools. Casting a shadow on the glint of good news — at least for one region of the country —is a new paper by a law professor forecasting what's in store for schools in the Great Lakes and Midwest area.

Director Alex Garland was already highly respected as the screenwriter of modern sci-fi classics like “28 Days Later,” “Sunshine” and “Dredd,” but his critical acclaim turned white hot after his directorial debut last year, “Ex Machina.” Considered one of the best films of 2015 by many (including us), Garland quickly reteamed with producer Scott Rudin —who came onboard ‘Machina’ to help with its theatrical release he believed in it so much—for a moody, sci-fi-ish book called “Annihilation” by Jeff VanderMeer. Читать дальше...

A month after the Jat quota stir violence, the Haryana assembly passed a bill to reform labour laws.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Another one of the alleged ringleaders of a multi-million dollar food stamp fraud scheme in a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona has been released from jail. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/232Je2N ) Nephi Allred was given his release Wednesday when judge Ted Stewart decided prosecution's evidence that Allred helped sect leader Warren Jeffs evade capture in the mid-2000s wasn't sufficient.

LOS ANGELES, March 30 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. National Park Service is positively considering a request to designate the site of a flying school that Korea's government-in-exile established in California in 1920 as a historical asset, a Korean-American sc