A few years ago some were ready to declare that town hall meetings by members of Congress were a relic of the past -- done in by an increasingly harsh political climate.
HANGZHOU, China (AP) — The Latest on the G-20 summit in China (all times local):
Investors are bracing for a market pullback this month. "It's likely at some stage we're going to get a price adjustment to realistic levels."
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — An old riverboat has sunk in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Coast Guard says the 87-foot Spirit of Sacramento took on water early Sunday and capsized overnight near Bethel Island in Contra Costa County. Two people on board the paddle wheel tour boat jumped in a dinghy and made it safely to shore. The Coast Guard says the vessel may have had as much as 600 gallons of diesel onboard. Authorities are working to stabilize the riverboat while responding to the oil pollution.
Hermine is spinning away from the East Coast, removing the threat of heavy rain but maintaining enough power to keep beaches at risk for dangerous waves and currents
Venus is into the fourth round for the second straight season, having gone four years without passing round three while she learned to cope with Sjogren’s syndrome, an auto-immune disease that causes chronic fatigue and muscle soreness.
Ratish Sekhar must not have thought even in the wildest of his dreams that he will ever be slapped with a bill as huge as Rs 9,15,887 by taxi-hailing service Ola for a 450 km round trip.
Kelly Clarkson hasn’t forgotten when and where her journey to superstardom all started. The 34-year-old singer, who was the champion of the very first season of “American Idol,” took to Twitter to honor the reality TV singing competition on the 14th anniversary of her win. “14 yrs ago 2day @AmericanIdol opened a door w/such amazing opportunities & experiences 4 me!” Clarkson tweeted on Sunday, Sept. 4. “I am 4ever grateful & blessed! #heresto14more.”
We as a society are often quick to point out when we feel that we didn’t get what we paid for or when we feel government entities have not met the standards for the tax dollars that we have paid.…
The Journal Star editorial of Aug. 26 about the Clinton Foundation is rife with errors ("Faulty ethics at Clinton Foundation"). As a starting point, the Clinton Foundation is a model charity which has a coveted "A" rating from Charity Watch.…
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Two men have suffered burns after an explosion occurred at an electricity substation in Sydney's south west.
– A financial and economic management institute has blamed the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government and the CBN for the Nigeria’s current economic woes and its recent plunge into recession – West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management through said the delay in passing and implementing the 2016 budget and the CBN’s monetary […]
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Het merendeel van de kiezers wil dat Nederland lid blijft van de Europese Unie. Dat blijkt uit een enquête die is gehouden door de politieke beweging ADDE, waar anti-EU-partijen lid van zijn, zoals het Nederlandse VNL met de nieuwe voorman Jan Roos.
BEIJING — The giant panda, one of the symbols of China, is off the endangered list thanks to aggressive conservation efforts. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a report released Sunday that the panda is now classified as a “vulnerable” instead of “endangered” species, reflecting its growing numbers in the wild in
The Moscow Arbitration Court has registered a claim by the US company Google to invalidate the decisions and actions of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, according to the court files, which makes it the third time the tech giants tries to sue the FAS.
The punishing storm is likely to slowly head northwest — back toward the Northeast coast.
Ahead of the canonization of Mother Teresa just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, where she lived and worked for close to 50 years, were filled with pride. Mother…
Ahead of the canonization of Mother Teresa just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, where she lived and worked for close to 50 years, were filled with pride. Mother…
Ahead of the canonization of Mother Teresa just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, where she lived and worked for close to 50 years, were filled with pride. Mother…
Mother Teresa was traveling from the city, then called Calcutta, to Darjeeling in 1946 when she decided to start the Missionaries of Charity order. Since its establishment in 1950, the order has set up hundreds of shelters that care for some of the world's neediest.
Benjamin Netanyahu will become the first sitting Israeli prime minister to make an official visit to Australia in 2017.
The missile launches were the latest in a series of launches by the isolated North this year in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.