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HBO Sports closes out 2017 with a high-stakes middleweight slugfest from the boxing hotbed of Quebec when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: BILLY JOE SAUNDERS VS. DAVID LEMIEUX AND ANTOINE DOUGLAS VS. GARY O’SULLIVAN AND CLETUS SELDIN VS. YVES ULYSSE JR. is seen SATURDAY, DEC. 16 at 9:40 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from Place Bell in Laval, Quebec. The HBO Sports team will call all the action, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired … Read Article

• A decline in union membership and activism helps explain why US inflation and wages have remained subdued despite a prolonged economic recovery.
• Low inflation gives the Federal Reserve room to keep interest rates low for longer, particularly if it wants to see workers' wages rise. 
• US inflation has undershot the Fed's 2% target for 100 of the 104 months since the start of the financial crisis, according to Capital Economics. 

Federal Reserve officials who... Читать дальше...

Judge Vincent Gaughan did not give his reasons in open court, instead having an aide pass out copies of a five-page ruling to members of the press.

Gwen Stefani didn’t quite gift-wrap a Tuesday ratings win for NBC — the “Voice” chipped in far more viewers — but her Christmas special sure didn’t screw things up. Neither did “Chicago Med” at 10 p.m. That said, CBS topped primetime in total viewers, thanks to “NCIS” and “Bull.” The so-called Tiffany Network was a close runner-up in the key 18-49 demographic. NBC was first in ratings with a 1.3 rating/5 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 7.7 million... Читать дальше...

“It would've been difficult to find anyone more qualified for this job,” he said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles is home to thousands of chronically homeless people. No one shares the same story on how they ended up in this center of abject poverty, where drugs rule the streets 24/7. "It's miserable quitting, or trying — trying anything," 33-year-old Andrew Hudson said last month while using heroin on Skid Row. The United States' homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles is home to thousands of chronically homeless people. No one shares the same story on how they ended up in this center of abject poverty, where drugs rule the streets 24/7. "It's miserable quitting, or trying — trying anything," 33-year-old Andrew Hudson said last month while using heroin on Skid Row. The United States' homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living... Читать дальше...

The governor of Minnesota on Wednesday named Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to fill the Senate seat that Democratic Sen. Al Franken said he would give up after he was accused of sexual misconduct. “It will my great honor to serve Minnesota as United States senator. I am resolved to do everything I can to move...

The Mets finally have signed a reliever. Just days after general manager Sandy Alderson reversed course and said the Mets could leave the Winter Meetings with a bullpen arm, the Mets signed right-handed reliever Anthony Swarzak to a two-year, $14 million contract,

The Dow industrials were headed for a fresh record close on Wednesday, powered in part by a trio of industrial stocks. Leading the charge were shares of Boeing Co., up 1.6%, or $4.60, contributing about 30 points to the Dow Jones Industrial Average's late-morning advance. A $1 move in any one of the 30 Dow components equates to a 6.83-point swing in the price-weighted benchmark Caterpillar Inc. , up 3.1%, or $4.48, and 3M Co. [sL MMM] combined to add another 50 points to the blue-chip gauge. Читать дальше...

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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — This is the lesson that the working-class city of Everett has learned: It takes a community to rescue the hardcore homeless. It takes teams of outreach workers — building relationships with men and women struggling with addiction or untreated mental illness, prodding them to get help. It takes police and other agencies, working together to provide for their needs. And it takes a prosecutor who was tired of managing the unending cycle of homelessness — jail-street-jail-street-jail. Читать дальше...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — This is the lesson that the working-class city of Everett has learned: It takes a community to rescue the hardcore homeless. It takes teams of outreach workers — building relationships with men and women struggling with addiction or untreated mental illness, prodding them to get help. It takes police and other agencies, working together to provide for their needs. And it takes a prosecutor who was tired of managing the unending cycle of homelessness — jail-street-jail-street-jail. Читать дальше...

The Kogi state police command dismissed three of its officers for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of 30 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

The Kogi state police command dismissed three of its officers for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of 30 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON),‎has revealed of planned introduction of Product Authentication Mark(PAM) for imported and locally manufactured products in Nigeria to address concerns of influx sub-standard products into the country. Osita Abuloma ‎the director general said the introduction is another strategy the agencyh as devised to address the incidence of substandard products in […]

Christmas is coming; and on a Saturday afternoon at the Citizens’, the glorious red-and-gold auditorium is packed with excited children and their families, revelling in artistic director Dominic Hill’s wonderful production of Cinderella, in the brilliant 1989 version by Scottish playwright Stuart Paterson. When it first opened in 1878, the Citizens’ – known in its earlier years as the Royal Princess’s Theatre – was built with panto in mind, with huge backstage scene-painting workshops and costume stores... Читать дальше...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda on Wednesday said they would work to defuse recent tensions over the wartime killing of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.

The stubborn survive — and thrive. New research links some Type A personality traits, like having a strong work ethic and being stubborn, with good mental health well into your 90s and beyond. Scientists at the University of Rome La Sapienza and University of California San Diego School of Medicine surveyed 29 Italians aged 90...

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• Cities, states, and regions across North America are vying to become the home of Amazon's $5 billion second headquarters, a development that the company says will bring 50,000 jobs.
• At the same time, Amazon has invested at least $775 million in deploying robots that automate human labor in warehouses.
• Quantitative futurist Amy Webb says local governments should consider how automation will affect their cities' workforce.

Amazon has received 238 bids from North American cities... Читать дальше...

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