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A three-story women's and children's building will be able to house 30 women overnight in emergency shelter. Both buildings will have apartments that accommodate people who need transitional housing.

The GOP’s coronation of Donald Trump exhausted all of the usual political analogies.

DEN HAM - 'Mijn beleving van de wereld is veranderd in de laatste zeven jaar. Daarmee voel ik me ook jong: nog maar zeven jaar sinds m'n ongeluk.' Zo beschrijft Jelle van der Zwaag (55) op zijn website de nasleep van het zweefvliegtuigongeval, dat zijn leven veranderde.

(AP) — Safety regulators have started warning motorists of faster trains along a high-speed rail corridor in Illinois months before Amtrak service at up to 110 mph is set to begin. New safety improvements include crossing gates, signals that communicate with train crews, vehicle sensors in pavement and signs warning of train speeds over 80 mph, The State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/2amuOJR) reported. Illinois Commerce Commission rail safety program administrator Mike Stead said the improvements are a regulatory heads-up to motorists... Читать дальше...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month's Rio Olympics over the nation's doping record.

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[UPDATE] The White Sox have announced that Chris Sale has been suspended for five games.

[EARLIER] The White Sox were scheduled to wear 1976 throwback uniforms on Saturday, but those plans were scrapped and it was apparently because Chris Sale really didn't want to wear them.

According to several reports, Sale used a knife to destroy the throwback uniforms after telling the team he didn't want to wear them.

Sale not only destroyed his own uniforms... Читать дальше...

Sean Martin, the group's external affairs director, said Sawant's cap on move-in fees could push landlords to tighten up other qualification measures, such as the amount of money a renter must earn or their credit score. According to data from Zillow, the typical monthly rent in the Seattle metro area surpassed $2,000 for the first time this spring and is up 9.7 percent in the past year.

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Malcolm Gladwell is angry, and he wants you to know why.

That's not to say that the bestselling author walks around in a rage all day — he's actually quite collected and soft-spoken most of the time, and ready to make a joke. But in his new hit podcast "Revisionist History," he explores certain topics in a way that readers of his books "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers" may find surprising.

Take, for example, the way he devotes three... Читать дальше...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called the leak of Democratic National Committee emails suggesting a bias against his presidential campaign “outrageous” and reiterated his call for DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) to resign.  

America has a long history of resisting black-led social justice movements.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not ban Russia from participating in the Rio Games and has not suspended the Russian Olympic Committee, the Russian state news agency TASS quoted an IOC source as saying on Sunday.

International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach confirmed on Sunday that no Russian Sports Ministry officials will be accredited for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Eddie Redmayne knows how to please a crowd. 

Thousands of “Harry Potter” fans gathered in Hall H during San Diego Comic-Con to catch a glimpse of the actor, who plays Newt Scamander in the upcoming “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” and boy, did he deliver the goods.  

The gunman who killed nine people at a Munich mall on Friday spent at least a year planning the attack and had visited the site of a 2009 school shooting, officials said Sunday.

Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov won silver at the 2012 Olympics in London. Medals won by Russian athletes at the past three Olympic Games have been called into question.

– A runaway pastor Francis Taiwo, who chained his 9-year-old son has been arrested by the Nigerian police  – The 9-year-old was said to have been rescued by some NSCDC officers on Friday, July 22 – The boy was seen chained in the premises of the church which is located at Ajibawo in Ado-Odo Ota division 2 The […]

Johnson's first name was spelled Jimmy before being corrected.

Bernie Sanders says the release of Democratic National Committee emails that show its staffers working against him underscore the position he’s held for months: Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz needs to go. “I don’t think she is qualified to be the chair of the DNC not only for these awful emails, which revealed the prejudice […]

The International Olympic Committee will not issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes hoping to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games and will instead leave the issue up to individual sporting federations, the IOC confirmed in a statement Sunday. More to follow …