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The Washington Spirit has opened ticket sales for the club’s home game at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. on August 25 against Portland Thorns FC.

Authorities probe how airline employee could steal plane OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Investigators are piecing together how an airline ground agent stole an empty commercial airplane, took off from Sea-Tac … Click to Continue »

From the heart of our busiest cities to our most remote wilderness, rivers give us opportunities to fish, float, swim and explore. Healthy rivers are vital to the outdoor industry… The importance of healthy rivers and clean water to our economy will be front and center this week, as thousands gather in Denver for the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, North America’s largest tradeshow in the outdoor industry.

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Beijing leaders weigh likely effects of retaliation on domestic economy

Beijing leaders weigh likely effects of retaliation on domestic economy

Shoenice Is Caught Drinking Liqour Again

While there is a growing list of current and former players that are throwing their support behind DJ Durkin, there is perhaps an even stronger group who is willing to support the Maryland HC. Keisha Staples, mother of Terps defensive back Antoine Brooks Jr., told the associated press she is ... Read More »

MIAMI -- We may be seeing a little less of New York Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard the rest of this season. Syndergaard, who will face the host Miami Marlins on Sunday in the finale of a three-ga

WITH triple-figure goal hauls ­kicked after 18 rounds, the race to be the Matthew Walsh Leading Goal Kicker for 2018 really heats up now for Kye Chapple and Tom Eltringham.

The Turkish Lira crisis is fundamentally different than the Russian Ruble crisis of 2014/15.  This one has contagion risk. Back then no one was worried about the fall of the ruble having spillover effect.  If Sberbank failed, it wouldn’t jump to Europe.  Then again, there was little worry about that since the Russians had more […]

The US is headed toward its largest annual deficit in six years, according to reports, and new facts released by the Fed point to Trump’s tax laws and heavy military spending as the reason for the spiraling vortex of national debt. ‘What We Have to Do’: Senate Passes Whopping $717 Billion 2019 Pentagon Budget The […]

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It was a tense match with a poor result for RSL.

Real Salt Lake, needing a home win to keep their momentum alive and their playoff push going in the right direction, dropped two points to Montreal Impact in an intense match of back-and-forth soccer.

A 1-1 draw was perhaps a just result at the conclusion, but it was hardly the sort of thing RSL would have been hoping for.

RSL dodged an early bullet after the Impact broke down the right side of RSL’s defense, pushing past Brooks... Читать дальше...

The preparations come as the North stepped up its demands that the U.S. ease punishing economic sanctions and move toward declaring a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War in return for denuclearization efforts.

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Digital disruption is affecting every aspect of the fintech industry.

Over the past five years, fintech has established itself as a fundamental part of the global financial services ecosystem.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• How fintechs are targeting small- and medium-sized businesses and pushing incumbents to fight back
• Fintech could be bigger than ATMs, PayPal, and Bitcoin combined
• How fintechs are upending... Читать дальше...

BRF is prime habitat for Fishing Cat, Olive Ridley Turtles, claim activists

The leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan are meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aktau on Sunday to sign a landmark deal on the Caspian Sea. The Caspian is the largest inland body of water in the world. The region's countries have long disputed whether the Caspian is a sea or a lake, which carries legal consequences.

LONDON (AP) — V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as "A Bend in the River" and "A House for Mr. Biswas" and brittle, misanthropic personality made him one of the world's most admired and contentious writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85. His wife, Nadira Naipaul, said he was "a giant in all that he achieved and he died surrounded by those he loved having lived a life which was full of wonderful creativity and endeavor."... Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as "A Bend in the River" and "A House for Mr. Biswas" and brittle, misanthropic personality made him one of the world's most admired and contentious writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85. His wife, Nadira Naipaul, said he was "a giant in all that he achieved and he died surrounded by those he loved having lived a life which was full of wonderful creativity and endeavor."... Читать дальше...

Washington In June, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis slammed the position of special counsel as a post too easily “deployed as a political weapon” to troll for dirt on targeted adversaries. At the same time, he ruled that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was legitimate and should continue. […]

Eine 56-Jährige hat sich am Samstagabend im Bezirk Wels-Land mit einer Motorsäge den Arm abgetrennt. Der Unfall geschah, als die Frau damit beschäftigt war, entlang der Hauseinfriedung Äste von Bäumen in einer Höhe von rund fünf Metern abzuschneiden, teilte die Polizei mit.

An abused mother of four with one of her cats. She says she has been to court so many times that some mistake her for a lawyer.