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Skylar Brandt has been practicing ballet since she was six years old.

She's now 23, and a soloist with the American Ballet Theater.

But just because she's been dancing for 17 years doesn't mean she's immune to nerves before a big performance.

However, she has learned to embrace them, and accepts them as something that's simply part of a being a performer — and something that can actually work in her favor and help her perform better.

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Starbucks sees food innovation and its cold coffee beverages as key areas fueling its future growth.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin agree on the need to speed up implementation of the Minsk agreements to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine, US Department of State spokesman Mark Toner said on Wednesday.

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Former House Speaker John Boehner said he's glad he wasn't part of the 2016 campaign cycle.

"Every day I'd watch it and was like, 'Thank God I'm not in the middle of this,'" Boehner told Cincinnati new station WCPO. "It was the most bizarre political year that we've seen in 100 years."

He also said he has "no regrets" about resigning from Congress last year after the shocking Republican primary loss of former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Boehner largely sat out the 2016 election cycle... Читать дальше...

The United States offered to assist Islamabad with recovery operations after reports a plane crashed in Pakistan, US Department of State spokesman Mark Toner said in a briefing on Wednesday.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the Capitol on Tuesday.

British Vogue editor-in chief Alexandra Shulman revealed in her January 2017 editors letter that there were designers who refused to dress model Ashley Graham for the issue. “The shoot was put together fairly last-minute and we are all very grateful to the people at Coach who, under the creative direction of Stuart Vevers, moved speedily [...]

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Police were searching for a shooter who wounded two people Wednesday inside a Wal-Mart store in a Phoenix suburb.

De Britse regering moet voordat de onderhandelingen over vertrek uit de EU beginnen, zijn plannen voor de brexit aan het parlement voorleggen. Dat staat in een motie die woensdagavond met grote meerderheid (448 tegen 75) in het parlement werd aangenomen.

WASHINGTON — Consumers increased their borrowing in October at the slowest pace in four months as growth in credit card debt and the category that covers auto loans and student loans slowed.

TBS talk show host hits up dominatrix and nude beach in tour of German capital During a press lunch at a German restaurant in Los Angeles, O’Brien detailed different parts of the trip, which included a trip to the dungeon of a dominatrix named Lady Velvet Steel. “She wanted to put things inside of me and do things to me, and I kept trying to stop her but keep it on the line where it would still be comedic but not break my marital vows,” O’Brien joked. Borg taught O’Brien some old-fashioned German... Читать дальше...

Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso broke his thumb on Sunday and had surgery on it Monday, but that’s not keeping him from joining his teammates at practice this week. Alonso suited up for practice with a cast on his right hand to protect the thumb and went through the stretching period with the rest of the…

Peter Thiel is starting to make his mark on Trump transition team.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) have approved the appointment of six transaction parties for the one billion dollars Eurobond on Wednesday, December 7.

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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia police officer was killed and a second critically injured in a shooting that occurred on Wednesday morning near a university campus in the southwestern part of the state, officials said.

A manhunt was underway for the shooter on Wednesday afternoon and Georgia Southwestern State University has been on lockdown since the shooting was reported at about 9:30 a.m. in Americus, Georgia, about 150 miles south of Atlanta, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors say they will not charge Russell Crowe with battery over a scuffle with rapper Azealia Banks in a Beverly Hills hotel room earlier this year.

Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Arthur Herman offers a historian's perspective on the 75th anniversary of the attack. Photo: Getty

The real scandal, according to the Post, is that the original plan of making the report public — and available to the generals’ paymasters in Congress — was ditched. But how outraged should taxpayers, and anybody who wants the U.S. military to maintain the global order, really be?

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Scientists have developed a mind-controlled robotic hand that allows people with certain types of spinal injuries to perform everyday tasks.

Andrew Keene of AlphaShark sees Pfizer bouncing back.

Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Jason Riley on the president-elect’s hint that he might not deport children of illegal immigrants. Photo: Getty