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Metro Police detectives are investigating the death of a toddler in the northwest valley, spokesman officer Jesse …

Lieutenant governor, NC schools superintendent conflict on state policy

BEIRUT (AP) -- The top military commander of Lebanon's Hezbollah was killed in an explosion near the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Shiite guerrilla group said Friday, the highest-level casualty yet in its intervention in the raging civil war next door. The death of Mustafa Badreddine strikes a heavy blow to the militant group and underscores how its deployment in Syria backing President Bashar Assad has widened its circle of enemies beyond traditional foe Israel to include Sunni extremists and conservative Gulf monarchies. Читать дальше...

Regulator to investigate privatised group over postal performance

“Não quero a pena de ninguém, só quero que me respeitem como respeitam as outras pessoas”

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors said on Friday it was temporarily halting sales of about 60,000 new 2016 U.S. SUVs because the vehicles' window labels overstated their fuel efficiency.

A spokesman for the largest U.S. automaker said GM discovered an "inadvertent error" on U.S. 2016 GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Traverse SUVs that caused the estimated fuel economy to be listed on the window label as 1-2 miles per gallon higher than it should have been. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air travelers across the country have endured lengthy security lines, some snaking up and down escalators, or through food courts and into terminal lobbies. [...] facing a potential backlash, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asked fliers "to be patient" as the government takes steps to get them onto planes more quickly. SHANGHAI (AP) — An anti-counterfeiting group said Friday it was suspending Alibaba's membership following an uproar by some companies that view the Chinese... Читать дальше...

Lily-Rose Depp looks chic in a matching top and shorts while at a photo call for her upcoming film The Dancer (La Danseuse) during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on Friday (May 13) in Cannes, France. The 16-year-old actress was joined at the event by her co-stars Soko and Gaspard Ulliel. PHOTOS: Check out the [...]

The fiery spectacle looks even more dramatic on film.

From 3 p.m. Thursday to 3 p.m. Friday

A federal ruling Thursday, prompted by House Republicans, would raise the out-of-pocket costs for health care for millions of people in the United States, many who now finally have health insurance for the first time in their life.

The ruling is yet another attack on the health care law by conservatives who want to destroy Obamacare, even if it means blocking families from getting the care they need.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A late slump Friday pulled U.S. stocks to their third straight weekly loss. Companies that make clothing, food and household goods dropped on more bad news from retailers, and energy companies fell with the price of oil. The Nasdaq composite index retreated 19.65 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,717.68.

Snuka, 72, was charged with murder and involuntary manslaughter last year in the 1983 death of 23-year-old Nancy Argentino.

Editor’s note: Writer and political analyst Chido Onumah will soon present a book “We Are All Biafrans” that focuses on the crisis of nationhood in Nigeria. Abdul Mahmud, lawyer and poet, in this piece for NAIJ.com gives the insight to the book and shares his views on Biafra issues in Nigeria. ‘We are all Biafrans […]

De terreurgroep Islamitische Staat (IS) heeft de noodtoestand uitgeroepen in Raqqa, de zelfverklaarde IS-hoofdstad in Syrië. Dat melden Amerikaanse media. Militaire functionarissen in de Verenigde Staten gaan ervan uit dat IS vreest voor een offensief van verschillende milities.

Ohhh, J. Law.

Jennifer Lawrence stopped by The Graham Norton Show and told an incredibly embarrassing story involving that time she met Harrison Ford and J.J. Abrams.

Comedian Jack Whitehall was also on Graham’s show, and happened to have been present for what J. Law described as one of her most humiliating moments.

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The two were at the same party hanging out when J. Law spotted Harrison Ford and J.J. Abrams.

The former president and his foundation are pushing back.

Seems the likely Republican presidential nominee may have his own Sasha Fierce, who some say used to handle his PR.

Mayor de Blasio said Friday that he's trying to reverse the "Boulevard of Death" moniker with improvements.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on problems with the baggage-screening system at Phoenix's airport (all times local):

Phoenix officials are weighing whether to use a private contractor to handle security at the city's busiest airport in the wake of a breakdown of a TSA baggage-screening system. City Assistant Aviation Director Deborah Ostreicher said Friday that the computer glitch that caused more than 3,000 checked bags to miss flights out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the latest in a growing list of frustrations with the federal agency. The screening system's technical problems at Phoenix Sky... Читать дальше...

Michael Ameri, left, at the Park Slope United Methodist Church in Brooklyn in 2013.

The man behind the takeover of BHS, Dominic Chappell, says his plan to revitalise the retailer "could have worked".

Blue Buffalo Pet Products Inc. shares fell in the extended session Friday after the natural pet products company filed for a secondary offering of shares. Blue Buffalo shares fell 8.3% to $24.20 after hours. The company filed to sell an additional 25 million shares, with an option for an additional 3.8 million shares to cover overallotments. Shares belong to existing stockholders and Blue Buffalo will not receive any proceeds. Blue Buffalo has about 196 million shares outstanding, according to FactSet data. Читать дальше...