Macau Gambling Revenue Falls for 13th Straight Month
Anticorruption measures and visa policies are among the factors blamed for the dramatic slump in the Chinese casino hub.
Anticorruption measures and visa policies are among the factors blamed for the dramatic slump in the Chinese casino hub.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is aiming to change the conversation around his health care law from talk about undoing it to talk of how to make it better.
Obama was headed to the Nashville, Tennessee-area on Wednesday to discuss ways to improve the Affordable Care Act, including by extending Medicaid coverage to more low-income people. Tennessee is among about 20 states that have rejected Obama's offer of billions of dollars to help pay to expand the federal-state health care program for the poor. Just over 80 percent of people under age 65 had health insurance when Obama enacted the law in 2010. [...] the share has risen to about 90 percent. Tennessee Gov. Читать дальше...
Greece’s future, like its past, lies not in Europe, but in the Levant, where a free-trade agreement could remake Alexander’s world, writes Amotz Asa-El.
Here's everything you ever wanted to know about taking your first cruise.
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According to a Whitehall source, a UK transport aircraft has left for Tunisia to carry out the repatriation of deceased British citizens following a terrorist attack.
At least 20 people have reportedly been killed and 41 more wounded after Houthis launched rocket strikes on Yemen's second-largest city, Aden.
Too much noise
Mongolian Prime Minister Chimed Saikhanbileg discusses the country's political and economic ties to China, Russia and the West.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina - An African-American church in South Carolina that was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995 caught fire again Tuesday night, though authorities said it was too soon to say what caused the latest blaze, which broke out on a night of frequent storms. No one was believed to be inside at the time.
Nothing brings Congress together like Taylor Swift.
NEW YORK - If you're headed to the beach or any other weekend getaway, don't forget these "essential" gadgets.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An African-American church in South Carolina that was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995 caught fire again Tuesday night, though authorities said it was too soon to …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An African-American church in South Carolina that was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995 caught fire again Tuesday night, though authorities said it was too soon to …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An African-American church in South Carolina that was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995 caught fire again Tuesday night, though authorities said it was too soon to …
The fire at the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal church in Greeleyville broke out at a time when federal authorities are investigating conflagrations at several other predominantly black churches — including one Friday at a church near Aiken, South Carolina — but so far the fires don't appear to be related. Greeleyville is a town of about 400 people around 50 miles north of Charleston, where a pastor and eight members of a historic black church were fatally shot on June 17 in what authorities are investigating as a hate crime. Читать дальше...
NEW YORK (AP) — If you're headed to the beach or any other weekend getaway, don't forget these "essential" gadgets.
NEW YORK (AP) — If you're headed to the beach or any other weekend getaway, don't forget these "essential" gadgets.
Last fall's Kindle Voyage is a premium model with a stunning, high-resolution display that makes letters resemble what's on a printed page. For digital magazines, you're better off with a tablet because e-reader screens typically lack color. The full-size iPad Air is too large to carry around, and Android tablets typically have dimensions more suited for widescreen movies than for replicating printed pages. Bring a portable power pack, which is essentially a battery for recharging the battery on your gadget. Читать дальше...
Following fears of a Greek exit from the eurozone, demand for both age-old commodity gold and new virtual currency bitcoin has risen.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first presidential race since Democrats cast the GOP nominee as an out-of-touch millionaire, Republican Jeb Bush is aggressively trying to flip the script. In an online posting that accompanied Tuesday's disclosure, Bush added, "One fun fact I learned in this process: I have paid a higher tax rate than the Clintons even though I earned less income." Like Clinton, he has profited mightily from giving paid speeches, earning nearly $10 million by delivering 276 speeches from... Читать дальше...
VIENNA - Russia-U.S. relations are at a post-Cold War low just about everywhere, except at the Iran nuclear talks.