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NEW YORK (AP) — An Illinois man who forged the signature of the Canadian deputy health commissioner and defrauded investors was sentenced in New York to five years in prison Tuesday.

Prosecutors said Leventhal claimed he had agreements to market a device named after Dr. Leonard McCoy, a fictional character on TV's Star Trek series. Fortunately for investors, his alternate reality, propped up by fabricated bank documents, unraveled and collapsed when he attempted to defraud an undercover FBI agent.

NEW YORK (AP) — An Illinois man who forged the signature of the Canadian deputy health commissioner and defrauded investors was sentenced in New York to five years in prison Tuesday.

Employee’s aces are tougher to play in the game of paycheque poker, in which the odds increasingly favour the house

Former Senator Bob Dole, shown in November 2015, has been working as a lobbyist with the Washington law firm Alston & Bird.

2017 Grammy nominations: The nominees, reactions and how Beyoncé and Chance the Rapper made history Dec. 6, 2016, 2:46 p.m. The Grammy nominations are here and Beyoncé leads the pack with nine nominations, followed by Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West with eight apiece and Chance the Rapper with seven....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the youngest white adult Americans, feelings of racial and economic vulnerability appear to be closely connected to their support for Donald Trump in last month's election. Among young people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, feelings toward President Barack Obama and about the way the government is working were related to support for Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. The pre-election survey data comes from a GenForward poll conducted by the Black Youth... Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A car crash has damaged one of the nation’s oldest churches.

DETROIT (AP) — A judge in Detroit has ordered a new trial for a Chicago activist who was granted U.S. citizenship without disclosing her conviction for bombings in Israel decades ago.

A leader can’t do everything, and you help your staff when you teach them new skills

Though Lupe Fiasco won't be releasing three new albums this year as he had hoped, the Chicago wordsmith dropped a new...

A pendant goes with everything, right? Well, technically yes, but for this holiday season, let's aim higher. All of us. Let's use our necklaces to achieve a show-stopping, head-turning look that's completely runway-worthy material.

A pendant goes with everything, right? Well, technically yes, but for this holiday season, let's aim higher. All of us. Let's use our necklaces to achieve a show-stopping, head-turning look that's completely runway-worthy material.

Amid at least one report that 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will void his contract for 2017, Kaepernick says that the notion that he knows what he will do next season isn’t true. “I haven’t made any decisions on that,” Kaepernick told reporters on Tuesday. “Those decisions will come after the season.” Even so, it makes…

With protestors for both sides engulfing the campus, white nationalist and “alt-right” movement leader Richard Spencer has been scheduled to speak at Texas A&M University Tuesday night in College Station, Texas.

WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the government in a legal clash over the nation’s insider trading laws, a victory for prosecutors seeking to curb corruption on Wall Street. The justices ruled that sharing corporate secrets with friends or relatives is illegal even if the insider providing the tip doesn’t receive anything of value in return. Writing for the court, Justice Samuel Alito rejected arguments that insider trading prosecutions should be limited to those... Читать дальше...

Humans' closest animal relatives trounce us at: recognising each other's butts.

Police and FBI have been instructed to begin removing all posts mentioning “Pizzagate” from social media in an attempt to suppress details of the pedophilia scandal from the public. The Huffington Post reports that “After the restaurant’s owner, James Alefantis, and staffers began receiving death threats, Alefantis contacted local and federal authorities, including the FBI, to get the fake news stories removed.” But law enforcement has sided with the man who allegedly named himself after his love of children (J’aime les infants)... Читать дальше...

Because of the enforcement policy, Tabitha Wise said she had to remove a handmade tribute she had placed at her mother's grave. She also scratched plans to put a Christmas tree at the grave.

The US Electoral Collage needs to be abolished because the system for electing a president violates the principle of one-person - one-vote and therefore threatens the future of democracy in the United States, a panel of Democratic Party members of the US House of Representatives warned.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions have signed running back Joique Bell, bringing the Michigan native back for another stint with the franchise in the Motor City.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe scored a victory on Sunday when it was announced alternate routes would be sought for the Dakota Access Pipeline....

The president-elect is quickly putting the bully in the bully pulpit.