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Crude oil closes 12% higher Friday

The next nine months are going to be frenetic in the U.S. political world as party candidates vie for nominations, debate each other and ultimately face off for the presidency. The Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary were just the beginning.

TORONTO - Many reporters wanted to talk about the Warriors and their historic season, but Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson each managed to spend a portion of Friday’s media session deflecting attention toward Kobe Bryant. The Lakers’ legend will be playing in his 18th and final All-Star Game on Sunday. The Warriors’ point guard said his favorite Bryant memory is when the shooting guard scored 81 against Toronto in 2006. Green said making his All-Star debut in Bryant’s All-Star finale is special. Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — A suspect accused of gunning down a Georgia lawman has been charged with murder in the death of the 25-year police veteran. The fallen officer was struck by two shots as he help…

They say that beside every good man is a good woman and, in the case of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, that woman is Melania his wife, originally from Slovenia but now, possibly heading to the White House as first lady.

Valentine's Day is fast approaching, which means single people all over the world will be kicked in the ribs once again. But hey, it doesn't have to be all bad! Except it does have to be all bad and always is!

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Charl Schwartzel made a charge up the leaderboard at the European Tour's Tshwane Open on Friday, going 6 under in his second round to sit two shots off the lead.

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Charl Schwartzel made a charge up the leaderboard at the European Tour's Tshwane Open on Friday, going 6 under in his second round to sit two shots off the lead.

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Charl Schwartzel made a charge up the leaderboard at the European Tour's Tshwane Open on Friday, going 6 under in his second round to sit two shots off the lead.

What's the point of last year's game "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture"? WIRED editors take a deep dive into this spiritual, uplifting game.

MADRID - Acting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy didn't shake hands with Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez during a meeting that's part of the drive to form a government following an inconclusive national election.

The Edwards administration announced Thursday that TOPS may get $28 million less than the funding it needs to cover all eligible students this budget year because of Louisiana's deep financial troubles. The governor issued a statement Friday saying students won't receive any bills for this shortfall or lose a TOPS award this semester.

Kiev will receive a loan worth $50 million from Turkey in the first-beginning of the second quarter of 2016, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said Friday.

A diplomatic source said that the Normandy Four group hopes to achieve significant progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the Ukrainian reconciliation by summer.

President Obama delivered FLOTUS a sizzling Valentine’s Day shoutout that channeled the power couple’s greatest passions: clean eating and health care reform.

Square shares jumped Friday after Visa detailed its previously announced investment in the startup, raising questions about the future relationship between the payment processors.

William A. Macdonald offers a prescription for the ailing economy and calls on ‘the second Trudeau’ to become ‘the second Sir John A.’

There are some of us who love what we do 9-5p; we leave the office, go the gym or pick up the family, eat dinner, and we're good - satisfied, full, busy.

GLENDALE, Arizona - The Latest on a shooting at a high school in a Phoenix suburb (all times local):

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a high school in a Phoenix suburb (all times local):

Worried parents will be bused to a Phoenix-area high school to be reunited with their children after two students were killed in a shooting. School district Superintendent Brian Capistran told reporters that parents will be bused to campus to meet their children. Police say two female students died in a shooting at a high school in a Phoenix suburb. Breeden says police received a call of a shooting just before 8 a.m. and they were on scene within minutes. Dozens of worried parents are waiting... Читать дальше...

After yet another near miss -- this time against Michigan -- even coach Richard Pitino seemed exasperated by the Gophers' late commitment to driving to the basket.

David Carr's daughter posted a tender tribute to the celebrated New York Times journalist on the anniversary of his death.

Sri Raman, senior quantitative research analyst at Thomson Reuters, gives his outlook on the probability of defaults from energy names this year.