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Wegen Belästigungsvorwürfen gibt der Leiter des renommierten New York City Ballet, Peter Martins, seinen Posten auf. Der 71-Jährige informierte den Vorstand des Balletts in einem Brief über seinen Entschluss, wie die "New York Times" am Montag (Ortszeit) berichtete. In dem Schreiben bestreitet der Däne die gegen ihn erhobenen Vorwürfe.

South Korea Tuesday proposed holding high-level talks with Pyongyang on January 9, after the North's leader Kim Jong-Un called for a breakthrough in relations and said Pyongyang might attend the Winter Olympics.

Alabama's defense dominated Clemson in the third consecutive meeting between the schools in the College Football Playoff.

Arsenal News HQ brings you the latest Arsenal news, match analysis, transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours from trusted media outlets around the World. Arsenal are yet to open talks with Jack Wilshere over a new contract. Wilshere has started Arsenal’s last four games and his performance has been befitting of a new contract. The midfielder was asked to prove he has gotten over his injury troubles before he would be offered a new deal and he has done that without any doubt. However... Читать дальше...

The male, whose exact age wasn't known, was found about 8:50 p.m. in the 8100 block of South Stony Island, police said.

S-E-C! It's Alabama vs. Georgia for national championship

Wile E. Coyote had a better plan for catching the Road Runner than the Democrats have for battling tax reform. As the high cost of the blue state model risks kicking in with tax reform, they're working harder than Al Capone's accountants to soften the blow.

The head of a conservative Republican faction in the US Congress, who voted last month for a huge expansion of the national debt to pay for tax cuts, has called himself a “fiscal conservative” and urged budget restraint in 2018. In keeping with a sharp pivot under way among Republicans, US Representative Mark Meadows, speaking on CBS Face the Nation, drew a hard line on federal spending, which lawmakers are bracing to do battle over in January. When they return from the holidays, lawmakers will begin... Читать дальше...

George Papadopoulos was the “improbable match that set off a blaze that has consumed the first year of the Trump administration.” Like the Trump campaign itself, advisor Papadopoulos “proved to be a tantalizing target for a Russian influence operation.”

EY is taking a bigger slice of One Manhattan West — the latest advance for Brookfield Property Partners’ seven-acre rail yard site that’s the city’s least-known, $5 billion mega-project. The accounting giant formerly known as Ernst & Young quietly signed for an additional 71,000 square feet just before the holidays, bringing its total commitment in...

The Tide will meet the Dawgs in Atlanta for the national title.

Fourth Quarter

0:00. That’ll do it. In a down year for the SEC overall, the league has two teams in the national title game and is guaranteed its ninth national title since 2006. This was more Godfather III than Ali-Frazier III.

1:43. Bryant makes a couple of lovely third-down passes to Renfrow, Cain catches a 19-yarder, and Clemson is able to mount its most sustained drive of the night. But after 18 plays... Читать дальше...

As Americans struggle to make ends meet, federal government employees are taking home a “minimum wage” of $100,000 and getting two months paid vacation after a mere three years of employment, according to government watchdog group Open the Books.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A program that trains people to advocate for older adults in New Hampshire is looking for applicants. Twenty-five people will be chosen for the 2018 class of the New Hampshire Senior Leadership program. A collaboration between the AARP, Center on Aging and Community Living at University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging, the program aims to attract candidates representing different ages, background and geographic regions in the state. The deadline for applications is Feb. Читать дальше...

Close to half of the nation's largest public universities do not track suicide deaths among their students, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Through public records requests, the AP asked the 100 largest public universities in the U.S. for annual student suicide statistics over the past decade. Suicide rates for those that provided data ranged from 0.27 suicides per 100,000 students to 8 per 100,000, but because of the inconsistency in responses the AP is not publishing figures for colleges that provided data. Читать дальше...

Oddsmakers like the Tide to get back on top.

Oddsmakers will peg Alabama as the favorite against Georgia in the College Football Playoff National Championship, now that those teams have locked in berths.

Alabama opens as 4-point favorite over Georgia in national championship game @LVSuperBook. Total: 48.

That aligns with the betting consensus from before the Playoff started, which has always had the Tide as the likeliest team of the four in the field to win it all. Читать дальше...

High class FOXWEDGE 4yo filly VOLPE VELOCE scored a well-deserved victory at the elite level finishing strongly to land the Group 1 Sistema Railway Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie under testing conditions. The victory took the mare’s record to 10 wins from just 13 career starts and she remains unbeaten at Ellerslie with four wins from […]

Ankara (dpa) - Die gemeinsamen Bemühungen mit Russland und dem Iran um lokale Waffenruhen in Syrien haben die Lage in dem Bürgerkriegsland nach Einschätzung der türkischen Regierung deutlich verbessert. «Ich hoffe, dass wir die Waffenruhen festigen können», sagte Außenminister Mevlüt Cavusoglu der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in Ankara. «Ich bin ziemlich optimistisch. Die Lage vor Ort in Syrien ist viel besser als letztes Jahr.» Er fügte hinzu: «Sollte der Krieg in Syrien wieder aufflammen, werden natürlich... Читать дальше...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont officials say changes in federal tax law could make it more difficult to estimate how much money will be flowing into the state treasury this year. Lawmakers and the governor rely on revenue projections to know how much they'll have to spend. Vermont Public Radio reports the forecasts are always imprecise, but a provision in the new federal tax law that will allow for increased deductions on income generated from businesses could make that even harder. Читать дальше...

The Prague Spring 50 years ago sought to introduce "Socialism with a human face" in then communist Czechoslovakia but was crushed by Soviet tanks seven months later.

BOSTON (AP) — Nearly half of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. Tabulating student suicides comes with its own set of challenges and problems. But without that data, prevention advocates say, schools have no way to measure their success and can overlook trends that could offer insight to help them save lives. "If you don't collect the data, you're doing half the job," said Gordon Smith... Читать дальше...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont lawmakers are going to be back in Montpelier to begin the 2018 legislative session. The session is due to open Wednesday at the Statehouse. On Thursday, Republican Gov. Phil Scott is scheduled to give his state-of-the-state address. He is expected to continue his call to make the state more affordable by creating well-paying jobs without raising taxes or fees. Lawmakers are also expected to continue considering whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.... Читать дальше...