UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is calling on the U.S. government to allow the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to have a say regarding a Texas-based company's $3.8 billion oil pipeline that they say…
Lupita Nyong’o rocks a stylish headwrap as she strikes a pose at day two of the 2016 US Open held at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Tuesday (August 30) in the Queens borough of New York City. The 33-year-old Oscar-winning actress was joined by her male pal and Kevin Spacey as they [...]
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s replacement plan for Teddy Bridgewater has received an emergency activation. Shaun Hill will be the first remedy. “I have confidence in him,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “I have confidence in this football team.” Bridgewater’s recovery from a badly damaged left knee, sustained during a seemingly harmless drill in practice Tuesday with
Morning people are no better off; come daybreak, their risk of making self-sabotaging excuses increases.
Even if you guess the twist in “Morgan” early on, the title character is still an interesting one. Played by relative newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy, Morgan is enigmatic and otherworldly, at once childlike and wise. She’s also an expensive, top-secret experiment, and she appears to be malfunctioning. This debut feature from Luke Scott — produced by
LOS ANGELES — Composer Hans Zimmer, crooner R. Kelly and members of such bands as the Go-Go’s, the Black Crowes, Linkin Park and Three 6 Mafia are supporting Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and T.I. in their appeal in the ongoing legal dispute over the hit song “Blurred Lines.” More than 200 musicians filed a brief
HOUSTON — Liam Hendriks took all the responsibility for letting a late lead slip away. And it was a pitch that got away really cost the Oakland Athletics. Evan Gattis hit an RBI single to cap a three-run rally in the eighth inning keyed by a wild pitch on a strikeout, leading the Houston Astros
SuperSport United have completed the signing of Cape Town City left-sided player Aubrey Modiba on a four-year contract just hours before the close of the transfer window.
The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty within five years — and Iran should also ratify but the timing is uncertain, the head of the U.N. organization established to implement the treaty said Wednesday.
MILAN — Three of the biggest transfers in Serie A on deadline day saw players switch from the English Premier League to Italy’s top league on Wednesday. Manchester City and England goalkeeper Joe Hart completed a loan move to Torino, while Juan Cuadrado returned to Juventus on a three-year loan deal and Luis Alberto joined
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors in northwest Louisiana unsealed a 32-count indictment Wednesday against owners and officials of a company accused of leaving 7,800 tons of potentially explosive artillery propellant at a Louisiana National Guard facility.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors in northwest Louisiana unsealed a 32-count indictment Wednesday against owners and officials of a company accused of leaving 7,800 tons of potentially explosive artillery propellant at a Louisiana National Guard facility.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — An Indiana woman whose feticide conviction for a self-induced abortion was overturned should be released from prison immediately, a judge said Wednesday, after she was resentenced to less time than she already has served behind bars. In a brief ruling, St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Elizabeth C. Hurley also said a
The Springfield News-Leader reports (http://sgfnow.co/2bCxPWt ) the Missouri Democrat said Tuesday while visiting a National Guard facility at Springfield-Branson National Airport that she'll be "asking for another tour." A McCaskill spokesman confirmed she intends to seek re-election.
Even if you guess the twist in "Morgan" early on, the title character is still an interesting one.
Morgan is a bioengineered being made from synthetic DNA, a lab-grown creature that looks like a delicate teenage girl. The violent misbehavior draws corporate fixer Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) to the secret lab where Morgan was made — an underground bunker in the middle of nowhere — to assess the experiment's ongoing viability. Though Michelle Yeoh and Toby Jones co-star as Morgan's creators, and Paul Giamatti makes a memorable if brief appearance as a psychiatrist who examines the "hybrid biological organism," Taylor-Joy steals her every scene.
Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection Wednesday between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably linked.
The French-born executive has essentially given up on Viacom weeks before he was scheduled to officially step down from the media giant. Instead of going to the Viacom Board of Directors to personally present Dalian Wanda offer for a 49 percent stake in Paramount Pictures — a proposal that Dauman had backed despite vocal opposition from Viacom mogul Sumner Redstone — the outgoing chairman now plans to recommend the deal via a memo. “The principal amendment requires that any sale or financial transaction... Читать дальше...
Actor and radio host was found unresponsive in his Las Vegas home in July Jerry Doyle, the “Babylon 5” actor and founder of the news platform EpicTimes, died as the result of chronic alcoholism, Clark County, Nevada, coroner John Fudenberg told TheWrap on Wednesday. The actor, whose credits also included “Moonlighting,” NYPD Blue, “JAG” and “Beverly Hills, 90210,” was found unresponsive in his Las Vegas home on July 27. In addition to his acting career, Doyle was also the host of a nationally syndicated radio program... Читать дальше...
Two small aircraft carrying five passengers crashed above the area located northwest of the Yukon River village of Russian Mission, local media reported.
The NFL ruled Wednesday that there was “no credible evidence” that Steelers linebacker James Harrison and Packers duo Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers used prohibited substances.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Pete Carroll is "thrilled" to have tight end Jimmy Graham back practicing for the Seattle Seahawks.
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Two years ago, a New York City man named Marcellus Johnson was convicted of robbery — in part as a result of incriminating telephone conversations that had been recorded while he was awaiting trial in a Rikers Island jail cell. Last April, New York’s highest court affirmed the conviction, upholding the use of the recorded conversations.
However, the justices of the New York Court of Appeals left open a future challenge to the use of such recordings.
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SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's ruling and opposition parties failed to pass the critical extra budget plan Wednesday, pushing back discussion for September's regular parliamentary session. After repeated delays, the ruling Saenuri Party a