The Latest: Officials say day's death toll in Baghdad now 69
BAGHDAD (AP) — The latest on a wave of militants attacks in Iraq as government forces battle the Islamic State group (all times local):
BAGHDAD (AP) — The latest on a wave of militants attacks in Iraq as government forces battle the Islamic State group (all times local):
Diyarbakır'ın Sur ilçesinde PKK'lı teröristlerce bomba yüklü kamyonun infilak ettirildiği saldırıda hayatını kaybeden 13 kişinin cenazesi, düzenlenen törenin ardından yan yana toprağa verildi. Cenaze namazı...Devamı için tıklayınız
Target Corp. said Tuesday that it has hired Mark Tritton to serve as chief merchandising officer after a search that lasted nearly a year. Kathryn Tesija stepped down from the role on July 6, 2015 after more than 30 years with the company. Tritton joins from Nordstrom Inc. , where he was president of Nordstrom Product Group, overseeing merchandising, marketing, and other functions. The company also named Jason Goldberger to the newly-created role of chief digital officer. Goldberger joined the... Читать дальше...
Campaigns across many sites mean brands can show up in undesirable places
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Donald Trump lashed out at one of Hillary Clinton's top super PACs over new advertisements that used Trump's own statements against him.
In a series of Tuesday-morning tweets, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee criticized the ads released by the group, Priorities USA, on Monday. One of the ads spliced together derogatory statements that Trump had made about women's bodies.
Trump accused the super PAC of taking a quote from a New Hampshire speech... Читать дальше...
Someone had a chat with the Big Man Upstairs while plugged into a brain scanner
Seth Meyers has not been shy throughout this election cycle about mocking Donald Trump's many gaffes and falsehoods. So, there was no way he was going to let the presumptive GOP nominee get away with posing as his own publicist.
Thirty-one athletes from six sports failed doping tests after new analysis of samples taken from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and could be banned from the Rio Games in August.
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It's a bona fide victory to find a job you're passionate about that comes with solid benefits and a big paycheck. But it's an added bonus to feel like the work you're doing is making a positive impact on the world.
A recent list of the best companies to work for in America published by Business Insider with exclusive data from PayScale ranked the 2015 Fortune 500 companies, homing in on six criteria, including how meaningful employees find their work (read the full methodology here). Читать дальше...
Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanı Süleyman Soylu, kıdem tazminatıyla ilgili yeni düzenlemenin tamamlandığını belirterek, "Kamuoyuna sunmadığımız ama çalışma hayatı içerisinde bugüne kadar gerçekleştirdiğimiz...Devamı için tıklayınız
World and regional powers met Tuesday in an attempt to overcome stubborn divisions among Syrian factions that have led to the rise of Islamic extremists and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since violence turned to war five years ago. But the session is not expected to substantially advance efforts to find peace. A diplomat familiar with the...
China may be slowing, but its investors will find a way to keep pumping money into the U.S., according to a new report.
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NEW YORK, May 17 (UPI) -- The number of children Boko Haram has used as suicide bombers has increased ten-fold over the past year, the United Nations reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) — US industrial production climbs 0.7 percent in April, most since November 2014, as utilities output surges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — US industrial production climbs 0.7 percent in April, most since November 2014, as utilities output surges.
Over the past five days, immigration officials in Reno and Las Vegas have swept through the Nevada cities, arresting 87 immigrants who they said posed a threat to public safety, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Molly‚ a border collie working the law enforcement beat‚ was rescued from an overturned vehicle by paramedics and a tow truck company in Cape Town on Tuesday.
The situation in Greece is "chaotic and inhumane" with at least 50,000 people stranded in "appalling and unbearable" conditions on the country’s border with Macedonia. Meanwhile, the European Union’s border force agency welcomes a 90 percent drop in the number of refugees arriving in Greece.
In a passionate speech to graduates, Thompson called UW-Madison faculty members “some of the greatest professors in the United States of America."
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Industrial production jumped 0.7% in April, more than expected. This is only the second positive reading since last September.
The Federal Reserve's data out Tuesday also showed that capacity utilization was 75.4%.
Economists had forecast that industrial production rose 0.3% month-on-month following a 0.6% drop according to Bloomberg.
Demand for electricity and natural gas climbed to a more normal level after unseasonably warm weather in March reduced the need for heating. Читать дальше...
U.S. factory output expanded in April, a sign that the country's manufacturing sector was resisting the downward pull from sputtering global growth.
CARTHAGE, N.Y. (AP) — The fan who caught New York Yankees slugger Carlos Beltran's 400th career home run has had plenty of experience catching fly balls. The Syracuse Post-Standard reports (http://bit.ly/1TkCNVG ) Yankees fan Mike Nevills was with a group of 23 high school baseball players, coaches and parents from Carthage who made the long drive from northern New York to the Bronx for Sunday's game against the White Sox.
Former NFL quarterback Jack Trudeau has apparently gotten his life back together. But he still has some jail time to do first. According to Madeline Buckley of the Indianapolis Star, Trudeau was sentenced to three more days in the county jail and two years of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor counts of drunk driving and intimidating…