After a momentum-building win over Australia in its Olympic opener, the Canadian women's soccer team hopes to keep rolling against an inexperienced Zimbabwe unit in Sao Paulo on Saturday (2 p.m. ET).
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The last thing Brazil's men's soccer team needed in its first game at the Olympics was to leave the field without a win and jeered by fans.
A California bill that would define and facilitate regulations for motorcycle lane-splitting has moved one step closer to becoming law.
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A Malibu woman who alleges she was doused with beer and threatened by a group of territorial surfers in Palos Verdes Estates is among a group of plaintiffs who filed suit against the so-called Lunada Bay Boys this week in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Now that the US National Nuclear Security Administration has officially approved upgrades for the B-61 bomb, Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear speaks to Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists to discuss the dangerous repercussions.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudanese government forces were likely behind an attack on a U.N. camp for internally displaced people in order to foster the ethnic reconfiguration of the northern city of Malakal, according to a United Nations Board…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The odds are good the U.S. will win the gold medal count once again in the Olympics.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The odds are good the U.S. will win the gold medal count once again in the Olympics.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Members of both the men's and women's United States Olympic Swim Teams participated in their own version of James Corden's carpool karaoke.
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Berkshire Hathaway reported second-quarter earnings that showed a jump in net income and a miss on operating earnings per share.
On Friday, the company headed by Warren Buffett reported operating earnings per share of $2,803 ($2,911 expected, according to Bloomberg) and net income of $5 billion, which rose 25% year-on-year.
This year, Berkshire closed a deal to buy Procter & Gamble's Duracell, and entered an agreement to acquire Precision Castparts to add to its investments. Читать дальше...
By mid-afternoon Thursday, the crowd had dispersed and the shadows cast by the World War II bomber reached far across the hot pavement, but the old plane still had some company to keep.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and quarterback Carson Palmer have signed one-year contract extensions with the Arizona Cardinals.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and quarterback Carson Palmer have signed one-year contract extensions with the Arizona Cardinals.
A woman who accused two University of Florida football players of sexual assault skipped a school code of conduct hearing Friday because a Gators sports booster was assigned to adjudicate the case, her attorney said in a letter to the school. Callaway, who led Florida with 35 catches for 678 yards and returned two punts for touchdowns last season, returned to campus for classes in June after missing spring practice. Boulder, Colorado-based attorney John Clune wrote in email to the university's... Читать дальше...
Laverne Cox is letting it all hang out—the natural way. The Orange Is the New Black star shared a stunning selfie on Instagram, and in it she appears completely makeup-free and...
A 14-year-old Ohio girl who shot her father dead in his sleep is her mom’s “hero” for ending the man’s abuse of the family, her mom said.
The Olympics are set to distract Americans from the presidential race, and folks looking to take a break from all of the corruption, cheating and allegations of impropriety should turn off the Olympics. Joe Lieberman said he hasn’t decided which presidential candidate he supports, though it’s not clear how this is supposed to make Harry Reid do him favors. And both the AARP has been pressured out of the American Legislative Exchange Council, though not due to ALEC’s goal of reclassifying Walmart greeters as livestock. Читать дальше...
I’m dying.
This is the the face of a woman who just found out Ryan Seacrest is straight.
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The face of a woman who could have sworn Ryan Seacrest wasn't heterosexual.
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The face of a woman whose whole entire world was rocked.
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I am lucky. Choosing a creative life and having the opportunity to do satisfying work that is sometimes meaningful is a blessed existence and worth the price paid in the subsequent challenges of public life.
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MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — A Crivitz man is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his son and daughter-in-law.
Joel Campbell and Alex Iwobi both netted twice as the Gunners romped to a dominant victory in Stavanger, with Viking capitulating after the break
If the five-star license plate on the Cadillac isn’t enough proof Frank Nastawa traveled in high company during World War II, the general standing a few feet away from him in the photo surely is.
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan court Friday acquitted 35 Chinese nationals and five Taiwanese who were arrested two years ago on suspicion of wire fraud. Senior Principal Magistrate Joyce Gondani said the prosecution had failed to prove its case, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to convict them. The group had faced charges of running a
An unnamed Greek athlete is expelled from the Rio Olympic Games after failing a drugs test.
SYCAMORE, Ill. — A judge has ruled a prosecutor in Illinois had no conflict of interest in a case involving the 1957 slaying of a 7-year-old girl and has denied a request from the girl’s brother for a special prosecutor. The Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/2b1DtP8 ) DeKalb County Judge William Brady ruled Friday that State’s