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Members of the U.N. Security Council are visiting Somalia to support the country's upcoming elections as well as its efforts to defeat an insurgency by Islamic extremists.

Tobin Heath and Meghan Klingenberg of the Portland Thorns get walked through the process of pressing apples for cider at 2 Towns Ciderhouse.

Tobin Heath and Meghan Klingenberg of the Portland Thorns get walked through the process of pressing apples for cider at 2 Towns Ciderhouse.

Amy R. Connolly
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch recommended changes to assist U.S. service members who are wrongfully discharged from the military after being sexually assaulted.

Alex Butler
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 19 (UPI) -- His voice once showered San Francisco 49ers fans at Candlestick Park, but now Bob Sarlatte claims there was nothing clean about his unceremonious departure.

You might still get your pennies from heaven — but you can't get them counted at TD Bank's Penny Arcade anymore.

The mother of murdered American marketing executive Gabriela Kabrins Alban has spoken out about her grief for the first time.

Choosing whether to go to business school is a big decision. Here are six questions alumni and professors recommend asking yourself first.

Annie Martin
LOS ANGELES, May 19 (UPI) -- Joe Jonas gets close to Sports Illustrated model Ashley Graham in DNCE's music video for "Toothbrush."

I am sad.  

I am sad because I committed swimsuit sabotage today, devouring a shameful amount of fast food calories for lunch (So good though!). I'm sad because I can't piece together the entire "Formation" concert via Instagram, and I have lost irreplaceable solitary bathroom time trying to do so (Nope, Mommy's still not done!). And I am sad because I suffer from major FOMO, and it is costing me since I keep prolonging getting rid of our cable (I WILL catch up on Scandal!).

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After recording only six double-doubles in 80 regular-season games, Adams notched six in his first 12 playoff games. “He's starting to see a lot of the things that he's capable of doing, and the best part of his game is that he plays with great energy and enthusiasm,” coach Billy Donovan said. Because of his talent level, when you do that, you put yourself in good position to be pretty successful. Wednesday night’s Game 2 drubbing by the Warriors in the Western Conference finals offered yet another case study in Adams’ grittiness. Читать дальше...

The US House of Representatives has passed a $610 billion military budget to fund Pentagon programs and US-led military conflicts. The bill, approved in a 277-147 bipartisan vote on Wednesday, sets the Pentagon’s base budget at $551 billion while giving it another $59 billion for overseas contingency operations, in other words, war funding. Press TV reports: On Monday, the White House threatened to veto the bill over the Republican attempts to shift $18 billion from the war fund to cover expenses in the base military budget. Читать дальше...

Uptight young woman (Tori Anderson) meets hot guy (Joshua Sasse) who tells her the world’s going to end in eight months and 12 days, so why not quit your job and do everything on your bucket list? Another of the fall’s time-travel/supernatural-ish new shows, Frequency is about a cop played by Peyton List (a CW stalwart from The Tomorrow People and The Flash) whose father, also a cop, died 20 years earlier.

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- No South Koreans are believed to have been aboard the EgyptAir flight that disappeared from radar screens off the coast of Egypt Thursday, an official here said. EgyptAir flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo when

Democrats shouted "Shame! Shame!," but seven Republicans switched their votes under pressure from House leaders Thursday and defeated a measure to protect gay rights.

Donald Trump kept himself planted firmly in the political spotlight this week with one headline-grabbing move after another — launching a social media defense of his treatment of women, listing possible Supreme Court nominees, rapidly declaring an Egyptian plane crash an act of terrorism.

The chairman of the House Benghazi committee on Thursday complained that the Pentagon has failed to provide the names of all the pilots who sent drones over Libya the night of the deadly 2012 attacks, slowing the more than two-year-old investigation.

"If the Korean War or Vietnam War are replayed, then we will have to defend ourselves," a Chinese minister tells CNBC.

The two shook hands and hugged today.

Liberal senator says ‘gig economy’ threatens workers’ economic security

The NFL is finally giving taxpayers back what's morally owed to them: Their money.

Progressive activists haven't always loved Democratic presidents, and they certainly haven't always loved President Obama. At times they've been deeply frustrated with the president and his White House. But at least one senior administration official has remained a progressive hero throughout the entirety of Obama's presidency: Thomas Perez, who ran the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division during the president's first term and has served as secretary of labor since 2013.

Norway cannot guarantee that Edward Snowden will not be extradited, a representative from the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security told Sputnik Thursday.