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During a recent "Captain America: Civil War" press conference, Jeremy Renner was asked why he chose to suit up against Team Iron Man. The Hawkeye actor had the perfect response.

Today, in honor of Tax Day and to highlight corporate inversions and other tax-dodging schemes, American Family Voices, Americans for Tax Fairness, and the Agenda Project Action Fund launched a video parody entitled “Inversion, from Pfizer, the Makers of Viagra.” Now, I may be biased — I’m the president of AFV — but I think that any time you can make a video that combines policy with penis dysfunction pills, you have a winner!

Change of control agreements apply to top executives who leave the combined company within two years.

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Discount retailer Target Corp has started raising employee wages to a minimum of $10 an hour, its second hike in a year, pressured by a competitive job market and labor groups calling for higher wages at retail chains, sources said.

Target management has informed store managers, who in turn have started informing employees about the wage hike and most employees who earn less than $10 per hour should see their base pay go up in May, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters. Читать дальше...

Few, if any, teams have been more active on the transfer market than Cal. To offset a disappointing 2016 signing class, Cuonzo Martin’s staff has reportedly contacted a dozen or so transfers. Last week, the Bears landed a commitment from UNLV guard Jordan Cornish. Freshmen Jaylen Brown and Ivan Rabb, both projected lottery picks in June’s NBA draft, have yet to announce whether they’ll turn pro. 2015-16 stats: 8.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 0.6 assists per game Hudson’s best performances include a 27-point, seven-round outing Jan. Читать дальше...

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment tooth-and-nail in the Senate after a heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's largest economy.

In a raucous vote late on Sunday that sparked jubilation among Rousseff's foes, the opposition comfortably surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to send Brazil's first female president for trial in... Читать дальше...

Estate agents in Perth are encouraging vendors to sell at auction because it is the only way to make them accept a realistic price.

NEW YORK — Calling it an issue of victims’ rights, the Manhattan district attorney urged Congress to pass legislation that would require tech companies to give law enforcement a way to access information on encrypted phones and other devices. The Manhattan district attorney’s office currently has 230 phones involved in cases that it has warrants to search, but can’t access the information inside. A Senate bill now being drafted would effectively prohibit unbreakable encryption and require companies... Читать дальше...

Find out which music video you should be binge watching right now.

Littering might be most people's biggest problem with Dolores Park, but one local religious group hates those new urinals so much that they're suing the city to get them removed.

Colorado officials and tribal leaders are urging public schools to eliminate Native American mascots unless they partner with tribes, calling it a unique way to address a national debate over what many consider derogatory symbols in high schools and sports such as the National Football League. … Click to Continue »

Netflix had a solid start to 2016, reporting that it now has 81.5 million subscribers worldwide. But that wasn’t good enough for Wall Street.The streaming giant, in reporting its first quarter earnings on Monday, also forecast that subscriber growth in the second quarter would be below industry expectations. That news sent Netflix shares down 11%.Netflix added 2.23 million subscribers in the U.S. last quarter, and revenue was up 18% over ...

Former Chisago Lakes star Whitney Tinjum makes it four Minnesotans to transfer to the Gophers.

Adrianne Haslet-Davis returned to the race where she lost her leg.

Supported by over 100 investor groups, the fund is $2-billion larger than its initial target

At a senior staff meeting on Saturday, the GOP front-runner gave Paul Manafort more authority and approved a major spending increase.

The Italian, Greek, and Maltese governments have each provided conflicting accounts relating to a claim that some 400 refugees have drowned in the past few days while crossing the Mediterranean.

RUSTON, Louisiana - Louisiana Tech has hired Brooke Stoehr to be its next women's basketball coach.

LANSING, Michigan - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will drink Flint water at home and at work for at least a month to show to residents it is safe with the use of a faucet filter, he said Monday.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will drink Flint water at home and at work for at least a month to show to residents it is safe with the use of a faucet filter, he said Monday.

The Republican governor, who has apologized for his administration's role in the city's lead-tainted water crisis, visited a house owned by Cheryl Hill and Todd Canty that was confirmed to have high levels of lead. By the time Snyder announced in October that Flint would return to its earlier source of treated water, the Detroit municipal system, dangerously high levels of the toxic metal were detected in the blood of some residents, including children, for whom it can cause lower IQs and behavioral problems. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on heavy rains and flooding in the Houston area (all times local):