What if you held a Supreme Court confirmation hearing and nobody came? It might look something like the Wednesday event that Senate Democrats staged to highlight the fact that no hearing is on the horizon for nominee Merrick Garland.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a boarding school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited with her mother, a doctor said Wednesday…
Donald Trump has been campaigning as a bit of a take-no-prisoners jerk — and it's not just an act, according to Claudia Rabin-Manning.
Trump released his shortlist Wednesday
Five judges serve on state supreme courts, six on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Former President George W. Bush appointed all six Circuit Court judges
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L Brands quarterly earnings that beat analysts' expectations on Wednesday, but revenues fell short.
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Indians called up right-hander Mike Clevinger from Triple-A Columbus to make his major league debut in the first game of a series against the Cincinnati Reds.
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Indians called up right-hander Mike Clevinger from Triple-A Columbus to make his major league debut in the first game of a series against the Cincinnati Reds.
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Indians called up right-hander Mike Clevinger from Triple-A Columbus to make his major league debut in the first game of a series against the Cincinnati Reds.
National treasure and woke Asian bae Constance Wu is really great in "Fresh Off the Boat." Why don't we cast her in more things? Or like, everything?
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The UN humanitarian aid coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory demanded on Wednesday that Israeli authorities stop destroying Palestinian homes.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A novice fossil collector's lucky find in a remote Montana badlands more than a decade ago has turned out to be a new kind of spectacularly-horned dinosaur, researchers announced Wednesday.
Sevilla survived a first-half battering before hitting back with three second-half goals, two from Coke, to beat Liverpool 3-1 in the Europa League final.
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Google's Diane Greene
Star Google exec Diane Greene says that it's not winner-take-all as the company races to overtake the leading $7 billion Amazon Web Services cloud computing juggernaut.
"One very pleasant, slightly a surprise [sic], is how much the Fortune 1000 wants to have a Google approach to the cloud," Greene says at this week's Google I/O developer conference. "They want to have two cloud vendors."
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Key market data for May 18, 2016.
ROLLING UPDATES: Labor is pledging to lift a controversial freeze on government payments to doctors, placing further pressure on the Coalition.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls Luis Almagro a traitor
Almagro demands that the Venezuelan return power to the people
The battle between the leaders intensifies
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 18 (UPI) -- One of 219 missing Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 was found alive Tuesday by a vigilante patrol group and reunited with her family, officials said.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson touted the modernization of the Coast Guard fleet Wednesday in a speech to graduating cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
This time, Clinton’s presidential campaign website and emails may have fallen into the hands of foreign governments, leaving the increasingly unpopular candidate exposed to extortion.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor on Wednesday again used a state of emergency decree to protect one of the island's struggling public agencies from lawsuits and preserve dwindling liquidity as the U.S. Congress works on a…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor on Wednesday again used a state of emergency decree to protect one of the island's struggling public agencies from lawsuits and preserve dwindling liquidity as the U.S. Congress works on a…