Donation from Sprint Cup Drivers Council presented to charity
The Drivers Council had raised $35,000 to initially pay NASCAR's fine of Tony Stewart.
The Drivers Council had raised $35,000 to initially pay NASCAR's fine of Tony Stewart.
It was not your typical Thursday on Capitol Hill.
CANNES, France (AP) — George Clooney has vowed that Donald Trump will not be elected president, promising that "fear is not going to be something that drives" the United States.
Bhubaneswar, May 12 () Unable to get an assurance from the Speaker on protection of their rights in the Assembly, Opposition Congress and BJP today walked out of the House dubbing the ruling BJD as "intolerant" and blaming it for the week-long impasse over chitfund scam.
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly in talks to join Chadwick Boseman in Marvel’s upcoming superhero film The Black Panther! The 33-year-old Oscar winning actress would play the love interest for Chadwick‘s character of T’Challa/Black Panther, Variety reports. Marvel first debuted the Black Panther character in Captain America: Civil War, and the standalone movie is set for [...]
With a new show spotlighting drones, robots and space-based weaponry, the Museum of Science and Industry is doing something unprecedented: It's presenting an exhibition made by and recruiting for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
With all TV's strengths and weaknesses.
Viewed in complete isolation, the plot of Captain America: Civil War makes little to no sense.
The movie's three acts — which roughly boil down to "Cap learns of the Sokovia Accords and refuses to sign them," "Cap and Tony square off over Bucky," and "Tony fights Cap and Bucky over other tragic events" — keep shifting the characters' goals in a way that seems designed to make you forget what was happening in the previous act. It's a kind of cinematic sleight of hand. Читать дальше...
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In the nascent days of the Boston Beer Company, its cofounder Jim Koch would personally recruit vendors for his Samuel Adams Boston Lager.
He'd return to these bars to train staff members on a Sam Adams sales pitch for drinkers who stuck to established brands like Budweiser. (Bars were willing to let him do this because his beer had higher profit margins.)
On one of these trips in 1986, at a Washington, D.C. bar called Rumors, Koch approached an employee... Читать дальше...
Gingrich served as speaker of the House in the 1990s and ran for president in 2012
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It was supposed to be a fun comedy about the assassination of Kim Jong Un. It turned out to be a movie that sparked an international incident — at least, we think.
It was June 2014 when news broke that the North Korean government was aware of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s comedy “The Interview,” in which Rogen and James Franco play journalists who are granted an interview with Kim Jong Un and have been tasked by the CIA to kill him.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry... Читать дальше...
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BENTONVILLE, Ark., May 12 (UPI) -- Walmart, the nation's biggest retailer, is taking on rival Amazon.com by introducing two-day shipping subscriptions and building a regional delivery network.
CANNES, France — The 69th Cannes Film Festival has barely even started and Woody Allen has already generated a ton of controversy.
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LIPETSK, Russia, May 12 (UPI) -- A Russian medieval festival reenactor showed off his spear-throwing skills by knocking a camera drone out of the sky with his weapon.
HFT has cut the cost of trading on Wall Street, leaving more for Main Street, says Bill Harts, an advocate of automated, high frequency trading.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, May 12 (UPI) -- Bell Helicopter has announced a $461.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Marine Corps with new Venom utility helicopters and Viper attack helicopters.
Cops want the public’s help finding two men and a woman caught on video brazenly carting a stolen widescreen TV down a Queens street.
I see you shiver with antici…
You may have heard by now that Fox is remaking the iconic 1975 movie classic, Rocky Horror Picture Show, for an upcoming televised production this fall.
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The Vaal University of Technology has obtained a court interdict barring students from protesting at its Vanderbijlpark campus after buildings were set alight.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will not send pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year for the annual hajj, an Iranian official said Thursday, the latest sign of tensions between the two Mideast powers after a disaster during the event last…
Ukraine is ready to make its underground gas storage facilities available to store Turkish gas for its further transportation to the European Union, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Igor Nasalik said Thursday.