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Boards have a duty to think more widely when it comes to bid approaches

Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn retweeted something vile this morning, and still hasn't, as of this writing, seen fit to delete his tweet which has finally been deleted. The tweet was in response to Hillary Clinton's campaign manager suggesting a possible link between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.

On June 11, 2013, Tim Kaine requested permission to do something unprecedented on the Senate’s floor. “I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish,” Kaine said. With permission granted, he started to talk about the importance of the language he had learned while performing missionary work in Honduras as a twenty-two-year-old. “This is a language that has been spoken in this country ever since Spanish missionaries founded San Agustín, Florida (today’s Saint Augustine)... Читать дальше...

Brazilian police arrested a man who tried to steal the Olympic torch during a parade that took place in the city of Guarulhos in the Brazilian state of São Paulo on July 23.

Lea Michele, Billie Lourd, and Keke Palmer step out looking glam at the Fox Fanfare Party held during 2016 Comic-Con on Friday night (July 22) at the Andaz Hotel in San Diego, Calif. The ladies were joined at the event by their Scream Queens co-stars Emma Roberts, Abigail Breslin, Taylor Lautner, and John Stamos. Also [...]

Robert “Bob” Robertson served in the U.S. Navy as a black shoe sailor aboard a destroyer. Years later he couldn’t forget the majesty of a ship at sea plowing through the waves and creating a white, foaming wake. So he got the plans to build one of the most famous battleships, the USS Missouri.

For Daniel Ricciardo it comes down to this: after three months of bad luck, team intrigue and strategic blunders, he still sits third in the championship standings.

The Tomah American Legion Post 201 baseball team experienced a very difficult two-and-out at the Class AA District Tournament last weekend in Onalaska.

The Olympics are about individual performance, and always have been. To ban Russia risked traducing that ideal

"Star Trek Beyond" brought in bold opening numbers for Paramount this weekend.

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In this June 7, 2001, photo, Mexican national Enrique Aguilar Canchola is found sewn into a passenger seat of a vehicle as part of an attempt to illegally enter the US.

Canchola, 42, was stopped at the San Ysidro, California, border crossing (which you can see out the window). At the time of Canchola's attempted entry, it was the world's busiest border crossing.

According to US Immigration and Naturalization officials, the incident was part of growing trend of undocumented... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is gearing up for an outsized role when Democrats gather in Philadelphia this week for their national convention. A boatload of public officials in the heavily Democratic state — including the entire congressional delegation and several statewide elected officials— are slated to attend the gathering. Kennedy, the grandson of Robert Kennedy and great-nephew of President John F. Kennedy, is expected to have a speaking slot sometime on Monday ahead of a planned speech by Warren. Читать дальше...

Andy Fantuz reeled in a pair of touchdown passes from Jeremiah Masoli as Hamilton came from behind to defeat the Edmonton Eskimos 37-31 on Saturday.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The International Olympic Committee left it up to individual sports' governing federations to decide if Russians should participate in Rio Summer Olympics.

Only this quiz knows.

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At least 17 homes destroyed.

The 2014 Sprint Cup champion commissioned a new line of hats with a throwback 1985 logo from his racing in go-karts.

You will be amazed to find that those who book this flight has no inhibition of removing their clothes in front of strangers.

While completing his final year in the office, US President Barak Obama said Sunday that at the moment he is a better president than has ever been.

A public unveiling of the Chris Kyle Memorial Plaza is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at 8050 E. Highway 191 near the Veterans Affairs clinic, capping more than a year-long effort to develop a tribute to the slain Navy Seal born in Odessa.

– Sokoto government said it is making concerted efforts to benefit from the State of Kuwait $1billion development fund set aside for intervention in critical social sectors in Sub Saharan Africa – Tambuwal said  Kuwait and Sokoto government are also collaborating in area of management of Zakkat and endowment funds As part of efforts to boost […]

It's the first scheme of its kind in the UK.

SRINAGAR, India — The Indian government said Sunday that Pakistan should stop provoking unrest in the Indian-controlled portion of the disputed Kashmir region, appealing for calm and restraint by people and government forces after two weeks of bloody protests that have left dozens of civilians dead. Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited Kashmir over the

Defence minister says migrants will be equipped for civilian roles, not recruited as soldiers