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Every Tuesday, Arthur Arkush shares his top nine waiver wire targets for fantasy football players. This will focus exclusively on players owned in less than 50 percent of all Yahoo! leagues.

– Prince Turki Saud-al-Kabir was executed after he killed  man in 2012 – The prince’s sentence was upheld by the high court – Saudi Arabia promises to continue to uphold secrity The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior has announced the execution of Prince Turki Saud-al-Kabir who is a member of the royal family. In what […]

Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that Russia circulated in the UN Security Council a draft statement on the necessity to separate moderate opposition from terrorists in Syria.

What stands out atop McCarran International Airport’s new control tower, beside dozens of brightly colored computer screens and a relatively new microwave oven, is focused quiet. As air traffic controllers guided midday traffic across the airport’s four runways in hushed tones Tuesday afternoon, FAA officials and members of Nevada’s congressional delegation spoke ...

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It’s been years since we’ve heard about production cuts by automakers, but here they come.

After a record-breaking 2015, the hot air is audibly hissing out of the auto industry. September sales were down 0.5% from a year ago. Year-to-date sales were about flat. Some individual models got clobbered. Inventories are piling up on dealer lots. Automakers lavished incentives on the market. Nothing worked.

Yet, auto production in September had jumped 7.3% year-over-year... Читать дальше...

When a scrub on the Vikings’ practice squad was arrested for drunk driving, the team acted quickly and cut him. When someone more important to the team was arrested for drunk driving, the team was considerably more lenient. The Vikings have acknowledged today that defensive coordinator George Edwards was arrested in May and charged with…

NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday extradited to Mexico a businessman accused of working with drug cartels after $205 million in cash was found at his Mexico City home, ending a years-long legal battle. Zhenli Ye Gon, who was arrested in the United States in July 2007 after the discovery of the cash, faces charges of organized crime, drug trafficking, firearms and money laundering in Mexico, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

GLENBROOK, Nev. (AP) — A 72-year-old Taiwanese woman who was visiting the United States on vacation has died from injuries she suffered in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 50 near Lake Tahoe.

Volcanoes on Earth’s “twin sister” are not only still alive, some have erupted recently – geologically speaking – according to new research by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Today, The Huffington Post is launching Swing Votes, a super cool game for iMessage on iOS 10.

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When the body's internal sense of time doesn't match up with outside cues, people can suffer, and not just from a lack of sleep.

Such ailments are similar in a way to motion sickness — the queasiness caused when body sensations of movement don't match the external world. So scientists propose calling time-related troubles, which can afflict time-zone hoppers and people who work at night, "circadian-time sickness." This malady can be described, these scientists say, with a certain type of math. Читать дальше...

TheWrap Screening Series: “I felt very insecure about the language and the culture,” Oscar-winning director says Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, whose drama “Julieta” is competing in this year’s Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film, felt the need to unburden himself after a Monday night screening of his new film. [...] the filmmaker said he initially courted the three-time Oscar winner to play the lead in what would have been his first English-language movie. The film stars Emma Suárez as the mature Julieta... Читать дальше...

Online gambling company’s stock fell on Tuesday as merger talks broke down, raising doubts about the firm’s ability to grow as a standalone business

Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari departed for Belgium today, October 18 wearing a Salvatore Ferragamo cape which costs about $2,600 (N1.183 million). Mrs Buhari is currently in Brussels, Belgium to attend a forum and will be giving the opening remark on “Women’s Role in Global Security”. She traveled to Brussels in a train […]

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Delta Air Lines on Tuesday unveiled a new set of uniforms for 60,000 of its employees, the first major overhaul for the airline in a decade.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says returning the All-Star game to Charlotte in 2019 is "a high priority," providing there's a resolution to a North Carolina law that restricts the rights of LGBT people.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy is about to be a new parent with fiancee Peta Murgatroyd, and while there's plenty to learn when it comes first-time daddy jobs, figuring out how to put on a diaper is...

After finding themselves alone at a shitty college party, four outcasts begin new friendships.

Bella Thorne has no time for her haters.

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The amount Americans spent on prescription drugs in 2016 rose 7% over 2015, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks a representative sample of prescription drugs on the market.

This stat, which we first spotted via Marketplace reporter Dan Gorenstein on Twitter, showed that this was the largest change in 24 years.

The report gives an insight into what people are actually paying out of pocket for medications included in the index. That's... Читать дальше...

Bad movies often get made with the best of intentions, and promising source material can go south for any number of reasons, but “Keeping Up with the Joneses” is so staggeringly mediocre and bereft of ideas that it seems impossible to believe that Jon Hamm, Zach Galifianakis, Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher and director Greg Mottola (“Adventureland”) went to work every day feeling anything but a gnawing sense of time being wasted. Cinematically speaking, this is a large bowl of clear, unflavored gelatin;... Читать дальше...