Banks continue pullback at US debt auction
Investors scramble to buy higher-yielding Treasuries
Investors scramble to buy higher-yielding Treasuries
Someone deliberately started the fire that triggered the fatal explosion in West, Texas, three years ago, government investigators said Wednesday. There are now 1,017,618 active handgun license holders in Texas, according to the Department of Public Safety. 4 DNA evidence: A man who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 stabbing death of a 16-year-old girl is expected to be released Wednesday after new DNA testing showed that blood on the victim’s T-shirt did not match his. According to articles in the Baltimore Sun at the time... Читать дальше...
One of these adorable babies is pure evil. See if you can figure out which one.
U.S. military says ISIS is seeking to distract from battlefield losses.
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Saudi Arabia appears committed to its recently-announced long-term economic plan, dubbed Vision 2030, which aims to remove the country’s economic dependence on oil exports within the next several decades. The removal of Ali al-Naimi, who for twenty-five years acted as the Kingdom’s oil minister and engineered the production surge guiding Saudi policy since November 2014, is a further indication of the government’s determination to make a major economic course correction.
The question is, can they do it? Читать дальше...
The West Australian government will allocate about $15 million to measures to help people addicted to a dangerous and debilitating drug.
Anger at 'discriminatory' office dress codes after receptionist is sent home for insisting on flat shoes.
In April, news of a spectacular defection rippled through the media. Most of the serving staff of a North Korean restaurant in Ningbo, China, had defected en masse. Twelve young North Korean women who worked at the restaurant and a male restaurant manager arrived in the South Korean capital. For Seoul, it was a propaganda […]
Is Sen. Elizabeth Warren the first Democrat to beat Donald Trump at his own Twitter game? In the past week the Massachusetts Democrat has refined an aggressive anti-Trump message through a series of so-called tweetstorms. Whenever Trump criticizes her, Warren fires right back at him, sometimes twice as hard. Political pros are aflutter (or is […]
The Forbidden Island. It sure sounds like a marketing ploy to justify the high price and long sea voyage associated with a full-day trip offered by three scuba shops on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. As far as most visitors know, the Hawaiian Islands stretch from Hawaii at the southeast end of the chain to […]
Morley Safer, the longest-serving correspondent at CBS News, will retire after Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes."
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A controversy over Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's admittance into a respected Washington-based anti-counterfeiting coalition intensified Wednesday when board members received an anonymous email threatening a mass defection unless Alibaba is pushed out, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press. … Click to Continue »
An investigation conducted by a Seattle-based nonprofit has found that nearly one third of toxic electronic waste is exported by major US recyclers to developing countries, where it is often dismantled in conditions that endanger workers and the environment.
Heightened concerns about the risks of Zika have prompted Australia's Olympic doctor to go on the front foot ahead of the Rio Games.
The legislation would allow the remains of women who served as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, in the 1940s to be buried in the veterans cemetery.
Humpback whale sightings in bay thrill boaters, alarm biologists Humpback whales have been swimming into San Francisco Bay in unprecedented numbers over the past two weeks — even leaping out of the water near Alcatraz — in a sight that has thrilled boaters, alarmed marine biologists and harked back to a famous wayward whale three decades ago. “I had never seen humpback whales before, and it was awesome,” said Lauri Duke, 54, of Rocklin (Placer County), who volunteers at the Marine Mammal Center... Читать дальше...
Widely-used pain med may come with unexpected side effect, research suggests
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. government won't appeal recent court rulings that stripped the lesser prairie chicken of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. government won't appeal recent court rulings that stripped the lesser prairie chicken of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. government won't appeal recent court rulings that stripped the lesser prairie chicken of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The city Department of Transportation will put in a new bike lane along part of Queens Blvd, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday.
Cybercriminals hacked nearly 100 computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. several years ago, stealing taxpayers’ personal information, according to a 2013 report by the agency’s inspector general that was released Wednesday.
Cybercriminals hacked nearly 100 computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. several years ago, stealing taxpayers’ personal information, according to a 2013 report by the agency’s inspector general that was released Wednesday.