WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Democratic senators and House members is complaining that the Federal Reserve has failed to meet its obligation to build a diverse leadership that includes enough women and minorities and wants Chair Janet Yellen to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Democratic senators and House members is complaining that the Federal Reserve has failed to meet its obligation to build a diverse leadership that includes enough women and minorities and wants Chair Janet Yellen to…
The reasons for the collapse of African Bank were finally laid bare when the report compiled by lawyer John Myburgh was made public.
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TSA was criticized Thursday for giving an official a $90,000 bonus in chunks, a practice called "smurfing", long lines and abusive work practices.
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Ecologist Eben Paxton, speaking on a cell phone from somewhere in one of Hawaii’s forests, wanted to talk about the scary events happening on the island of Kauai.
The “bird crash,” he calls it.
Hawaii’s fourth-largest island, says Paxton, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, is seeing a sudden, rapid decline in native birds.
The prime suspect is avian malaria. It’s being spread by mosquitoes and it kills rare birds such as the 'i'iwi, a bright red honeycreeper with a curvy Dr. Читать дальше...
A judge sentenced former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to five years in prison Thursday for running a federal shakedown scheme.
(AP) — A Lincoln man says he's not dead, despite what the Social Security Administration has said. Chuck Zellers learned of his demise in March after his Social Security deposit was removed from his bank account while he and his wife, Alice, were in Arizona, he told the Lincoln Journal Star (http://bit.ly/1TcuM3V ). Luckily, when he cut his Arizona trip short and returned home, his local Social Security office paid him what he was owed — but only after they saw him alive.
While the West continues its insistence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be removed from power, Iran’s top military official made assurances that the US and its allies will not get their wish.
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Troubled blood-testing startup Theranos still has one big, vocal fan: the guy that invested the seed money to get the company started, famed investor Tim Draper.
Draper tells Business Insider that of all the startups out there, Theranos is among those he's most excited about.
"I like Theranos. I'm behind that company 100 percent. I think they're great and are doing a great thing," he says. "I don't want vampires. I want a company that takes two drops of blood from my finger in a micro-fluid test. Читать дальше...
CBI has written to Interpol Headquarters on Enforcement Directorate's request to seek Red Corner Notice against Vijay Mallya
Panic! At the Disco, Atlas Genius, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Andrew Watt and Borns headline X107.5’s Our Big Concert at Boulevard Pool in the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Music to the ears of Jets fans.
3 veteran ‘Roots’ stars look back on making this TV classic NEW YORK — ABC bosses weren’t sure anyone would watch. Suffering cold feet, ABC decided to get it over with on consecutive nights in January 1977, where, if no one tuned in, it would do the least harm to the network’s ratings. [...] as everyone knows, “Roots” exploded as a TV and social phenomenon, averaging 80 million viewers each night and opening the eyes of millions to a painful swath of history too often overlooked or forgotten.... Читать дальше...
The Pentagon is ramping up their Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), aimed at expanding efforts to work with Silicon Valley tech companies.
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When I was growing up, there were almost no Asian men anywhere in pop culture — not in music, not on television, so rarely in American film. It’s why I clung to daytime reruns of movies starring Jackie Chan, an action star who’d made a career out of constantly looking confused, getting punched in the face, and then looking confused about it. One film I remember distinctly was called Who Am I?, in which Chan has amnesia and bumbles around South Africa trying to figure out his identity. Читать дальше...
“I’m happy because I’ve learned to love myself.”
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When Shalom was 9, hot oil dripped on her while she was sleeping and burned several layers of her skin off.
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This year’s electorate will be the most diverse in U.S. history, but the race has been one of the most divisive against virtually every minority group.
New cast members, such as Max von Sydow, have pointed the show in intriguing directions this season.
Jennifer Lawrence isn't one to shy away from telling embarrassing stories about herself. From punching co-stars in the crotch, peeing in bidets and allegedly puking in front of Miley Cyrus, we've heard all of her crazy tales.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State James Baker told a U.S. Senate hearing that Donald Trump's foreign policy proposals would make the world a less stable place on Thursday, just as the Republican presidential candidate met with party congressional leaders.
Under questioning from Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a former Trump rival in the presidential race, Baker said the world "would be far less stable" with a weaker NATO or if more countries had nuclear weapons as has been proposed by Trump. Читать дальше...
Donald Trump can’t seem to stop receiving support from white supremacists. The latest example involves a mock campaign poster from none other than David Duke himself, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Trump superfan, who seems to think he’d make a great vice president. Duke tweeted Thursday a Trump-Duke ticket would be the New York billionaire’s “best life insurance” and offered up a photoshopped campaign poster to help out his chosen presidential candidate.
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has denied bond for a Texas woman accused of killing a pedestrian in a hit-and-run collision in the Atlanta suburbs, then carjacking two drivers as she fled 25 miles into the heart of…
De portretten die Rembrandt in 1634 heeft gemaakt van Marten Soolmans en Oopjen Coppit zijn op 2 juli voor het eerst in het Rijksmuseum te zien. Het museum is die dag gratis toegankelijk. De twee schilderijen zijn drie maanden lang te bezichtigen, op een ereplaats naast de Nachtwacht. Daarna gaan ze naar het museumatelier voor restauratie.