NASCAR fines Tony Stewart $35,000 for criticizing officials
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR fined Tony Stewart $35,000 on Thursday after he criticized the series about a potential safety hazard during races.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR fined Tony Stewart $35,000 on Thursday after he criticized the series about a potential safety hazard during races.
The Culinary Union is organizing a march down the Las Vegas Strip to urge Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to negotiate a contract with workers at his hotel. Organizers said they expected more than ...
Pop superstar Prince, who died this morning, will be honored at the downtown Fremont Street Experience with a audio/pictorial retrospective on the Viva Vision canopy, North America’s largest graphic display system.
Much of the free world, and particularly Minnesota, has been reeling from the stunning news Thursday of Prince’s death. He was a rare talent and a vibrant personality whose impact was immeasurably far-reaching. Some of that reach extended into the sports world. Here are some of the highlights from that realm: Junior high basketball One of the most enjoyable images you will ever see is the one that accompanies this post. It’s from Prince’s early 1970s days playing basketball for Minneapolis Bryant Junior High (he’s No. Читать дальше...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — "American Idol" runner-up La'Porsha Renae has delivered a soulful rendition of "Amazing Grace" to a standing ovation in the Mississippi House, closing the session on a high note in her home state.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — "American Idol" runner-up La'Porsha Renae has delivered a soulful rendition of "Amazing Grace" to a standing ovation in the Mississippi House, closing the session on a high note in her home state.
JACKSON, Mississippi - "American Idol" runner-up La'Porsha Renae has delivered a soulful rendition of "Amazing Grace" to a standing ovation in the Mississippi House, closing the session on a high note in her home state.
HARTFORD, Connecticut - Hillary Clinton, sitting with relatives of victims of the Newtown school massacre, vowed Thursday to make sure gun violence is not ignored, saying Connecticut's bipartisan gun control legislation was a model for the nation.
Jason Scott Johnston
Economics, United States
Obama's climate policy wrecked coal, and his renewable subsidies hurt efforts to replace it.
On Earth Day, the United States will sign the Paris Climate agreement. In terms of the actual climate policy already implemented by the Obama administration, however, the events of the previous week were much more important. Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest privately owned coal producer, declared bankruptcy, and SunEdison Corporation... Читать дальше...
OMAHA — Omaha police have announced the death of a squirrel that hung out around police headquarters and had his own Twitter following.
A surprise appearance by Prince, a month ago, for a memoir announcement at a Manhattan night club, had the satisfying elements you might imagine: brilliance, humor, otherworldliness, tardiness, costume changes, funkiness, eccentricity. He stood on a glass balcony above us, as if he’d descended to earth as an act of generosity. And, in fact, he had. “I literally just got off the plane,” he told us. “I’m going to go home and change and put some dancing clothes on.” He was already wearing what I’d consider dancing clothes... Читать дальше...
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida - The state and federal authorities are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man who abducted a 7-year-old boy who was found a day later about 100 miles from home.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state and federal authorities are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man who abducted a 7-year-old boy who was found a day later about 100 miles from home.
San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, a bastion of creative contemporary theater founded by the late John Lion nearly 50 years ago in a Berkeley barroom, celebrates its forthcoming golden anniversary with a 2016-17 season that mixes now-classic works by two major writers associated with the theater — Sam Shepard and Paula Vogel — and premieres of new plays by other artists with the Magic on their resumes. [...] comes the Magic’s Virgin Play Series, with workshop performances of in-progress plays by a diverse... Читать дальше...
Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen withdraws from this summer's Olympics in Rio because of family and schedule issues.
Google parent company Alphabet announced first-quarter earnings and revenue that fell below analyst projections Thursday, causing shares to fall more than 5 percent in extended trading. Alphabet’s earnings rose 20 percent from last year to $4.2 billion, fueled by a huge advertising network that includes Google’s dominant search engine, Android’s ubiquitous operating system for smartphones, YouTube’s widely watched video service and Gmail. Larry Page created Alphabet last year to oversee Google... Читать дальше...
The man, the myth, the legend. Ladies and gentleman, we give you Prince. And for all of the memorable songs he created—it's hard to name even one that stands out...
‘Where there have been women on the panels in these telecom proceedings, they don’t have speaking roles,’ Jean-Pierre Blais said Wednesday
– Senate resident, Bukola Saraki withdraws appointment of Mr Sani Omolori as acting clerk of the National Assembly – The National Assembly Commission has appointed as the clerk of the House of Representatives, Mohammed Sani-Omolori Senate president Bukola Saraki on Thursday, April 21 asked the National Assembly Service Commission to consider Mr Benedict Efeturi who is […]
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