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Flexible schedules free workers from rigid hours, boosting their health and productivity. Or they kill collaboration.

For Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross, volleyball after Rio began in a near-empty stadium on the sand in Long Beach on Wednesday morning. 

State and local education officials gathered at Eagle Rock Elementary School on Wednesday to celebrate upward progress in newly released student test scores, even as the overall results showed less than half of students meeting learning goals.

Actrice-schrijfster Isa Hoes (49) heeft zichzelf tijdens haar relatie met Antonie Kamerling een beetje weggecijferd. ,,Na zijn zelfgekozen dood  kwam ik tot de conclusie dat ik het prettig vond om in de schaduw te staan van een sterke persoonlijkheid als hij. Daardoor is mijn eigen ontwikkeling ongemerkt gestopt. Die kwam na zijn overlijden weer op gang.'' De 44-jarige acteur, die al jaren worstelde met depressies, stapte op 6 oktober 2010 uit het leven.

A US firefighter who received a face transplant a year ago said Wednesday that he feels normal again and even managed to swim for the first time in 15 years. Patrick Hardison, 42, from Senatobia, Mississippi, was horribly disfigured when the roof of a burning home collapsed on top of him in 2001. "My family and I took a trip to Disney World this past June and I swam in the pool with them.

At a rally in Tampa on Wednesday, Donald Trump veered from his prepared teleprompter text to serve up many of the applause lines that boosted his primary campaign, to the delight of his audience.

England coast to a 44-run win over Pakistan in a rain-affected first one-day international in Southampton.

Campaign 2016 updates: Trump calls out celebrities backing Clinton for not being 'very hot anymore' Aug. 24, 2016, 2:08 p.m. Trump said Clinton's supporters are mostly Hollywood celebrities on the decline at a rally in Florida.Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton's backers are "celebrities that aren't...

Donald Trump promises to help bring jobs and security to black neighborhoods. But his poll numbers with African-Americans are in the low single digits, and many say his message is insulting.

ISTANBUL — Turkey sent tanks, warplanes and special operations forces into northern Syria on Wednesday in its biggest plunge yet into the Syrian conflict, enabling Syrian rebels to capture an important Islamic State stronghold within hours. The operation, assisted by U.S. warplanes, is a significant escalation of Turkey’s role in the fight against the Islamic State, the militant extremist group ensconced in parts of Syria and Iraq that has increasingly been targeting Turkey. Earlier, Vice President... Читать дальше...

Former Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes probably has a secret Twitter account. If it’s true, she goes by the alias “Ashley Banks,” which is under the handle @PersianLa27. The page was first uncovered by celebrity blogger Perez Hilton back in 2014. More than two years later, Bynes/Banks, is active on the page once more.

Clinton campaign senior advisor Joel Benenson says an AP report that more than half of the people outside of government who met with Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state were Clinton Foundation donors is “sloppy” & based on a "sliver of data."

The Chelsea attacker was in awe of his younger brother's display for Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday and jokingly admitted he is the better of the two

HENGELO - Op de kruising van de Berfloweg en de Breemarsweg in Hengelo is woensdagavond een ongeluk gebeurd. Twee auto's botsten tegen elkaar.

Bernie Sanders is set to launch a new organization fighting for progressive change across the country, but are the former presidential candidate’s supporters disenchanted?

This is the best early Christmas present we’ve ever received. 

On Tuesday night, during her appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Dolly Parton confirmed that she will play a prostitute in her second made-for-TV biopic, “Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love.” (The flick will be a sequel to Parton’s 2015 film, “Coat of Many Colors.”)

The NFL playoffs have significant turnover  every year, with four, five, or six teams that made it the prior season not getting back. On Thursday’s PFT Live on NBC Sports Radio and NBCSN, we’ll attempt to pick four 2015 playoff teams who won’t be back in 2016. You can pick, too. The 12 teams appear…

It was a slow and gentle plunge in southern England on Wednesday during the second test flight of an enormous aircraft.

A house painter was sentenced to 38 years and 8 months to life in prison Wednesday for shooting and nearly killing Kyle Kraska, a CBS News 8 sports director, among other charges.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police are searching for a suspect after a 21-year-old Lincoln woman reported being beaten and sexually assaulted by an intruder into her home.

The Defense Department has asked for $12 million to build a new employee screening facility at the entrance above the Pentagon Metro station. But Congress says it has not made a compelling case.

FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota State rolled to its fifth straight Football Championship Subdivision title last year and then watched its star quarterback walk to the stage as the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft. Yet there was still something missing for Bison fans. They didn’t get a chance to play a Football

A search is under way for a further missing person, the RNLI said.

The robot designed by a team from Harvard University moves without the help of any rigid parts. Researchers say it is the first proof-of-concept design for an entirely soft, autonomous machine.