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With Vincent Kompany out injured, Eden Hazard has been named the Red Devils captain heading into EURO 2016.

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief of Facebook, which detailed how both editors and computer algorithms play roles in the process of picking what appears in the “Trending Topics” section of Facebook pages.

Two lawmakers have floated an idea for shortening the waits at airport security that summer travelers will love — drop baggage fees.

Debris washed up on beaches in South Africa and Mauritius have been all but confirmed to be from flight MH370, adding fresh clues to the mystery of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines plane.

Two people are facing charges in connection to the traffic incident that left a Richmond County deputy in the hospital after being hit by a car.

Portsmouth and Plymouth share four goals in an eventful first leg of their League Two play-off semi-final.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers tried to tie up loose ends Thursday by taking up bills that deal with voting, driver's licenses and liquor sales as the Legislature's focus shifts to nailing down budget-surplus spending plans.

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U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, one of the Senate's most senior Republicans, said on Thursday that he was endorsing presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"I totally endorse him," Hatch told reporters after he and other Senate Republican leaders met with the billionaire businessman and reality television star.

(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Chris Reese)

Kangaroos boasted too much Maroon for Greg Bird's liking.

An EasyJet flight to Cyprus was delayed after a female passenger punched the pilot in the face for ordering her out of his plane before take-off. The 25-year-old woman was arrested at Manchester Airport for assault. Independent.ie reports: It is understood the woman attacked the captain of the plane as she was being led away. The airline issued a statement, which read: “EasyJet can confirm that the police were called to attend flight EZY1973 from Manchester to Paphos prior to its departure on 11 May to assist with a disruptive passenger. Читать дальше...

"Tom Clancy's The Division" was the biggest launch of a new video game property ever, which helped Ubisoft report a profit for its fiscal 2015-2016, the company said Thursday. Ubisoft reported a decrease in sales but a rise in profit for its fiscal 2015-16. Sales were $1.8 billion, down 4.8 percent compared to the previous year, but the $147 million profit was up from the $128 million posted the previous year.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on a police standoff with a man suspected of killing three people in Chicago (all times local):

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on a police standoff with a man suspected of killing three people in Chicago (all times local):

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on a police standoff with a man suspected of killing three people in Chicago (all times local):

Chicago police say a suspect in the killing of three people who was in a standoff with authorities has apparently killed himself. Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi (goo-lee-EHL'-mee) says members of the department's SWAT team rushed into the house Thursday afternoon after firing gas canisters in the hopes the man would surrender and found his body inside. The man was being sought for questioning in the shooting deaths of three people Wednesday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. Читать дальше...

(AP) — The director of a national association of music teachers is out of a job after he reportedly told a diversity forum that blacks and Latinos lack the "keyboard skills" needed for the profession. Before walking out, attendees say he defended the lack of diversity by stating that "blacks and Latinos lack the keyboard skills needed for this field" and suggesting that music theory was too difficult a subject for minorities.

ALMELO - Jos Pierey uit Deventer is en blijft de kandidaat voor de opvolging van wethouder Anja Timmer in Almelo. Dat benadrukte het PvdA-bestuur op de algemene ledenvergadering. 

One trader is betting big that China is heading for another meltdown.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a mountain of bills addressing the nation's opioid abuse crisis, fueled by lawmakers' bipartisan craving for election-year action on the deadly epidemic. By huge bipartisan margins, the House approved 18 drug-related bills this week setting up federal grants, new rules and studies of the problem, including three measures on Thursday. More than 2 million people were abusing prescription opioid painkillers and nearly 500,000 more were addicted to heroin in 2012... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a mountain of bills addressing the nation's opioid abuse crisis, fueled by lawmakers' bipartisan craving for election-year action on the deadly epidemic. By huge bipartisan margins, the House approved 18 drug-related bills this week setting up federal grants, new rules and studies of the problem, including three measures on Thursday. More than 2 million people were abusing prescription opioid painkillers and nearly 500,000 more were addicted to heroin in 2012... Читать дальше...

Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is serving life in prison for the murder of Odin Lloyd, but the legal case surrounding Lloyd’s death is not over, and today another verdict was reached. In that verdict, a friend of Hernandez, Ernest Wallace, was convicted of being an accessory after the fact. But Wallace was acquitted…