Missouri-based Great Plains Energy said it agreed to buy Kansas’ Westar Energy for roughly $8.6 billion in a move the utilities hope will lead to more controlled costs and consumer rates.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding along a river that is expected to crest at a record level just two years after it had run dry in places because of…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding along a river that is expected to crest at a record level just two years after it had run dry in places because of…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding along a river that is expected to crest at a record level just two years after it had run dry in places because of…
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive arm says it has reached an agreement with some of the world's biggest social media firms, including Facebook and Twitter, on ways to combat the spread of hate speech online.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive arm says it has reached an agreement with some of the world's biggest social media firms, including Facebook and Twitter, on ways to combat the spread of hate speech online.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive arm says it has reached an agreement with some of the world's biggest social media firms, including Facebook and Twitter, on ways to combat the spread of hate speech online.
PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff's authorities say two people have died and two others have been injured in a head-on collision in Columbia County at the end of the Memorial Day weekend.
Suzuki Motor said it used an improper fuel economy testing method on more models than it had previously announced, the latest revelation in a scandal that has rocked the Japanese auto industry.
Amid Herat's swirling winds, construction crews work steadily to create a new downtown strip that, someday, will include high-rise office towers and thousands of new homes. That's bad news for people like Nesar Ahmad Papalzai who have watched the rising property values in their city in western Afghanistan contribute to a chronic problem: land-grabbing.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's justice minister on Tuesday revived an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case involving sex with a minor.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's justice minister on Tuesday revived an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case involving sex with a minor.
The minister, who is also the country's chief prosecutor, argues that celebrity status is shielding Oscar-winning director Polanski in Poland, where he grew up and which he often visits. The Krakow court's decision was at odds with a Polish-U.S. extradition agreement, Ziobro's office argued in a statement. The filmmaker's movements are restricted by an Interpol warrant in effect in 188 countries, but he has avoided extradition by traveling only between France, Poland and Switzerland, which in 2011... Читать дальше...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's justice minister on Tuesday revived an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case involving sex with a minor.
Christian Lealiifano says becoming a father will help him find a balance between his rugby and family life.
Shares of Micron Technology Inc. ran up 2.5% in premarket trade Tuesday, after Robert W. Baird & Co. turned bullish on the memory chip maker, citing an improving outlook for PCs and the Chinese smartphone market and a positive outlook for NAND flash memory. Analyst Tristan Gerra raised his rating to outperform, after being at neutral for the last nine months. He raised his stock price target to $18, which is 46% above Friday's closing price of $12.31, from $12. "Samsung may shift meaningful... Читать дальше...
Arsenal right back Hector Bellerin will be in Spain's Euro 2016 squad, the country's football federation said.
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OSLO, Norway, May 31 (UPI) -- New energy work that began last year in Norwegian territorial waters led to an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, the government said.
Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have agreed with the European Union to remove from their websites information visible in Europe that incites hatred or acts of terror to help combat the growing threat of terrorism on the continent.