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Audra McDonald wears a beaming grin as she arrives at the New Dramatists Annual Luncheon on Thursday (May 12) at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. The Broadway icon was joined by stage stars including Lupita Nyong’o at the luncheon. Audra was toasted by her fellow stage actors, including her Shuffle Along [...]

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Supplies of lethal injection drugs are running low and new sources are becoming increasingly difficult for states to come by. Pfizer, the second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, just made the job even more challenging by blocking its drugs from being used in executions. Here is how the United States got to this point: Opposition […]

I'm a university professor, with three years' teaching experience at Columbia and four at Yale. These are the 10 things I've suggested to pretty much all the students who've ever walked through my door for office hours. I don't think the advice applies just to the elite colleges. I went to a large but fairly good state school in Canada, the University of Waterloo. My hope is this applies to students of every stripe.

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Leda Braga is the first woman ever to have made the cut to Institutional Investor's annual list of richest hedge fund managers.

As the head of Geneva-based Systematica Investments, Braga earned about $60 million last year and snagged the 44th spot on the ranking published today.  

That puts her on par with two New York-based managers, Scott Ferguson of Sachem Head Capital Management and Mark Kingdon of Kingdon Capital Management.

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Was Ross Lyon playing games at selection ahead of Saturday's game against Hawthorn?

Cannes 2016: Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' stomps onto the red carpet May 14, 2016, 8:13 a.m. Amid the usual excitement and unusually heightened security, the 69th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with the world premiere of Woody Allen's "Café Society," starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen...

President Barack Obama will speak Sunday at Rutgers University's graduation ceremony, marking the first time a sitting president has spoken at the school's commencement

At the Cannes Film Festival, Steven Spielberg says 'The BFG' is 'the closest I've ever come to a love story.'

[...] after lobbying efforts that included prodding by the state's Congressional delegation, and the announcement of another commencement speaker, the school learned last month that its long campaign had been a success. Obama will speak Sunday at Rutgers University's graduation ceremony at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, the first time a sitting president has spoken at the school's commencement. The lobbying effort included phone calls to administration officials and letters sent to... Читать дальше...

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LOS ANGELES, May 14 (UPI) -- The winners of CBS' "The Amazing Race" were revealed on Friday's edition of the globe-trotting, competition series.

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Speaking with Obama during his weekly address, the hip-hop artist opened up about his own experience with drug abuse.

A 32-year-old man rapist who terrorised women near the Tongaat Hullett Estates in Kwazulu-Natal between March 2014 and December 2015 has been sentenced to five life terms plus an additional total of 100 years in jail.

De omgeving noch de medewerkers van roofdierenopvang Felida in het Friese Oldeberkoop zijn nooit echt in gevaar geweest door de ontsnapping van de Bengaalse tijgers Radja en Delhi.

One doctor I met was spending his 30th birthday at the conference and another had just got engaged this morning leaving her new fiancé 10 minutes after the proposal to make it to the meeting

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Andy Murray beats French qualifier Lucas Pouille 6-2, 6-1 at the Italian Open to advance to his second clay-court final in two weeks

Jason Day set the 36-hole record at The Players Championship, builds 4-shot lead going into the weekend

Welcome to our live coverage of the Match 45 of 2016 Indian Premier League between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rising Pune Supergiants, being played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

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NOW WATCH: What it's like to run the most grueling race in the world that only 14 people have ever finished

Thousands of US chicken industry workers are being forced to wear diapers on the job because they have no bathroom breaks, according to a recent report by humanitarian group Oxfam America. Minor Sinclair, Director of Oxfam America’s US program, told Radio Sputnik more about the report.

ENSCHEDE - Hieronder verschijnen in de loop van de avond de uitslagen en doelpuntenmakers van de wedstrijden die op zaterdag 14 mei in het regionale amateurvoetbal zijn gespeeld.