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The Colorado Avalanche beat an NHL arbitrator to the punch by signing defenseman Tyson Barrie to a four-year, $22 million contract Sunday. The team announced the signing, and a person with direct knowledge of the contract revealed its value to The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because

VINCENNES, Ind. — The Indiana Military Museum in Vincennes has acquired a World War II-era Soviet tank. The Vincennes Sun-Commercial reports (http://bit.ly/2aksssW ) the massive tank arrived Thursday aboard a flatbed semitrailer from the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. Indiana Military Museum curator Jim Osborne says transferring the tank was the

Alexandra Pelosi and Haim Saban in “Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?”

Pasadena police arrested a 26-year-old man Sunday after he brandished  a gun at people in a residential neighborhood, authorities said. 

When Spencer Scheil died in 2010, he was only 11 years old. The impact that his classmates and school left on him inspired his family to do something special.

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At the waste collection center in Kamikatsu, Japan, there are separate bins for different types of paper products: Newspapers, magazines, cartons, flyers. Then there are separate ones for cans: Aluminum, spray, steel. There are even individual bins for plastic bottles and caps. But that’s only a handful of the 34 categories that Kamikatsu residents have to sort their trash into, according to a short documentary by Seeker Stories.

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Compromises are never pretty. But the mess that the International Olympic Committee has made with its decision to let Russia’s athletes participate in the Rio Games is especially tawdry.

New report of Thomas Isaac, the indigenous affairs’ minister’s special representative, is valuable guide on setting the rights of Métis people

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Floating Library will be adrift on a St. Paul lake for only one more weekend this summer.

The raft on Lake Phalen (FAY'-luhn) is stocked with handmade, one-of-a-kind books, ranging from a catalog of Prince's favorite foods to tales of the immigrant experience in St Paul. Readers can reach the library by kayak, canoe or paddleboat — all are available for rent from the Lake Phalen boat house.

MIAMI (AP) — All-Star shortstop Aledmys Diaz left the St. Louis Cardinals' game at Miami after being hit on the right hand by a pitch in the first inning Sunday, and he will undergo further examination by a specialist Monday.

MIAMI (AP) — All-Star shortstop Aledmys Diaz left the St. Louis Cardinals' game at Miami after being hit on the right hand by a pitch in the first inning Sunday, and he will undergo further examination by a specialist Monday.

MIAMI (AP) — All-Star shortstop Aledmys Diaz left the St. Louis Cardinals' game at Miami after being hit on the right hand by a pitch in the first inning Sunday, and he will undergo further examination by a specialist Monday.

MIAMI (AP) — All-Star shortstop Aledmys Diaz left the St. Louis Cardinals' game at Miami after being hit on the right hand by a pitch in the first inning Sunday, and he will undergo further examination by a specialist Monday.

Novak Djokovic secures a straight-sets win over Kei Nishikori in the final of the Rogers Cup in Toronto.

Nederlandse piloten van luchtvaartmaatschappij easyJet hebben vanochtend vier uur lang het werk neergelegd. De 72 piloten die Schiphol als thuisbasis hebben, staakten voor het doorbetalen bij ziekte, meer rust tussen vluchten en een beter pensioen. Door de onverwachte staking moest easyJet verschillende vluchten annuleren.

Pilotenvakbond VNV kondigt voor maandag een nieuwe werkonderbreking bij easyJet aan. De 72 easyJet-piloten die Schiphol als thuisbasis hebben, staken voor het doorbetalen bij ziekte, meer rust tussen vluchten en een beter pensioen. Door de onverwachte staking annuleert easyJet een aantal vluchten.

Pilotenvakbond VNV kondigt voor maandag een nieuwe werkonderbreking bij easyJet aan. De 72 easyJet-piloten die Schiphol als thuisbasis hebben, staken voor het doorbetalen bij ziekte, meer rust tussen vluchten en een beter pensioen.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Public school teachers are pushing back against a state school board plan intended to address teacher shortages. The Utah State Board of Education unanimously decided to allow schools to hire people with expertise in subject matter but no teaching license or classroom experience. "Instead of a fixing a leak in the dam, it's going to be plugging the hole with a stick of dynamite," said Roger Donohoe, a Hyde Park teacher who won a Huntsman Award for Excellence in Education in 2014. Читать дальше...

2016 Rio Summer Olympics: Keep track of all the Rio Olympics news July 31, 2016, 2:57 p.m. Full coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. 2:57 P.M. Reporting from toronto Brazil's Marcelo Melo ready for Rio despite travel woes Lisa Dillman Brazil's Marcelo Melo ready for Rio despite travel woes...

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TINLEY PARK, Ill., July 31 (UPI) -- Miranda Lambert's eyes welled up and her voice cracked when the country music superstar performed "Over You" during an Illinois concert this weekend.

Twitter is so bad at surfacing its most valuable content that a whole ecosystem of other players has arisen to do it for Twitter, from apps and data-mining services to the news media itself, writes Christopher Mims.

Turkey's security forces have arrested eight military personnel suspected of being involved in an attack on a hotel in Turkey's Marmaris.

'We are very moved by the presence of our Muslim friends and I believe it is a courageous act that they did by coming to us