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A fitness trainer and mother of three was murdered in a Dallas-area church Monday morning, cops said.

His death marks the end of a remarkable era in African and world photography.

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Nordstrom said Monday it was slashing 400 jobs at its corporate headquarters.

The move comes two months after the department store chain reported a 3% drop in comparable sales for its fourth quarter, and forecast that profit per share would fall 30% in the first half of this year.

The cuts confirm a terrifying new reality for high-end retailers: Wealthy shoppers are reining in spending and — along with the rest of American consumers — refusing to pay full price for anything. Читать дальше...

ORCHARD PARK, New York - Bills coach Rex Ryan is promoting a team-first approach after a string of player complaints and criticisms created a distraction and rift in the locker room last season.

*Darth Vader voice* Luke, you are our father.

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When he hung onto this sweater for thirty years, and it was the most dad sweater imaginable.

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Flume‘s hot song “Never Be Like You” featuring Kai is our choice for this week’s JustJared.com and 102.7 KIIS-FM‘s JJ Music Monday! The song was released back in January, but it is now heating up at radio and we can’t get enough of it. Flume, an Australian artist, has already gone to number one with [...]

George Clooney has long been politically active, but is he harboring ambitions to become a politician himself? Find out in this exclusive excerpt from Sunday’s “Meet the Press” interview with Clooney.

As noted by the judges, the Pulitzer Prize won today by AP was: “For an investigation of severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.”

I had been put through the wringer at Golds and through sheer grit and determination had finally earned the opportunity to sit down and talk to America's most famous immigrant about politics.

– Allowances of corps members are to be increased in the near future – The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) announced the plans this Monday Johnson Olawumi, a former Brigadier-General of the Nigerian army and immediate past Director-General of the NYSC, shared the plans to increase allowances of corps members. The news were announced during a handing over […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contend that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library violates copyright law.

The Authors Guild and several individual writers have argued that the project, known as Google Books, illegally deprives them of revenue. The high court left in place an October 2015 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in favor of Google.

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– Embattled Senate president hails support by colleagues – Says ongoing trial does not have to affect the proceedings at the red chamber Embattled Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has opened up on his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). READ ALSO: I was not attacked in my constituency – Senator Misau Speaking through […]

While Ecuador digs out after a massive earthquake that killed hundreds of people, worried parents in North Carolina wait for word of their missing daughter.

By James M. Dorsey

President Barak Obama has a challenge and an opportunity when he meets this week first with Saudi King Salman and then with the leaders of the six Gulf states. His challenge is to manage increasingly fundamentally diverging policy differences. His opportunity is to push for political and social change given that the United States' alliance with Saudi Arabia is unlikely to revert to the status ante quo at a time that the kingdom confronts existential threats.

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BOSTON (AP) — With the real-life Boston Marathon underway Monday, Hollywood film crews took to the marathon finish line and Fenway Park to shoot scenes for competing movies about the deadly 2013 marathon attacks.

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Er moesten stoelen worden aangesleept, maandagavond. De opkomst bij de eerste vergadering van de Ledenvereniging FC Twente '65 overtrof met bijna 500 aanwezigen de verwachting. Maar het totale ledental van 4.420 is op zich nog steeds teleurstellend, ook al bestaat de ledenvereniging nog maar drie maanden. Eindelijk krijgen de fans en sponsors bij FC Twente via het lidmaatschap van de ledenvereniging (contributie 19,65 euro per jaar) inspraak bij 'hun' club en dan is de reactie van de achterban... Читать дальше...

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Loyola-Chicago women's basketball coach and Hall of Fame member Sheryl Swoopes said she will cooperate with the school as officials investigate the basketball program after allegations of player mistreatment.

The winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and Breaking News Photography

Widespread flooding after Houston swamped by rain HOUSTON — More than a foot of rain fell Monday in parts of Houston, submerging scores of subdivisions and several major interstate highways, forcing the closure of schools and knocking out power to thousands of residents who were urged to shelter in place. Sylvester Turner, mayor of the nation’s fourth-largest city, told residents to stay home to cope with a weather system he called “stubborn.” Rain gauges in parts of Harris County, which includes most of Houston... Читать дальше...

A bus explosion in the industrial area of Jerusalem’s Taliot neighborhood early Monday evening that wounded 21 people – including one critically – was the result of a bomb, Jerusalem police said, but police stopped short of declaring it a terrorist attack, the Jerusalem Post reported. Remarkably, no deaths were reported following the carnage on the major thoroughfare of Bar-Am Street, where two Egged buses and a third vehicle were reduced to exposed charred iron and ash. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld... Читать дальше...

Het is nog een beetje een vreemde eend in de bijt, tussen de tennisbaan van TV Neede en de accommodatie van Sportclub Neede: de padeltennisbaan van TV Neede.

While Israeli defense officials have criticized the soldier’s conduct, large segments of the public have rallied behind Sgt. Elor Azaria.

Likely headed for a major primary loss, Cruz works to win support from the anti-Trump establishment.