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Thanks to a recently inked deal with Fiat Chrysler, Google has found its next self-driving car: a minivan. The company plans on outfitting 100 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrids with its own autonomous driving software. Google hopes to have them on the road for test drives by the end of this year.

The Pacifica is quite a bit larger than the diminutive self-driving car for which Google is known, but it fulfills a new purpose. "The minivan design gives us an opportunity to test a... Читать дальше...

On Monday night, Pearl Jam played Madison Square Garden for the second consecutive evening, wrapping its time in New York on its current North...

Takata is preparing to recall at least another 35 million rupture-prone air-bag inflaters that U.S. regulators have deemed a safety risk.

The world is looking at the Gold Coast's high-end market, now undergoing a spectacular revival of fortunes.

A county prosecutor in Virginia says she won't seek criminal charges against police officers who used stun guns multiple times on a black man before his death

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Ivy League admissions decisions were released last month, and thousands of hopeful high school students were rejected by their dream schools.

Although the Ivies are notoriously tough to get into — their acceptance rates range from 5.2% to 13.96% — you might be surprised to learn other schools have even lower acceptance rates.

Business Insider listed some schools that are even more selective than some of the Ivies, according to statistics provided... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A measure to add $453 million for Illinois colleges and universities during the state's historic budget stalemate is expected to be considered in the state Senate this week. Last month, lawmakers approved $600 million in short-term aid for colleges and universities that had not received state aid since July 1.

Emerging-market assets are having a pretty good run so far this year, but a sharp drop in oil prices so far this week is casting a long shadow over the rally.

Agriculture Minister says he will consult with farmers, processors in coming weeks to deal with problem of so-called diafiltered milk

A teenager has been sexually assaulted on a nature strip in Yass, NSW Police say.

–  “States should be allowed to fix their minimum wage according to their financial capabilities,” the national APC chairman said – John Odigie-Oyegun assured of the speedy appointments into various federal boards and parastatals John Odigie-Oyegun, the national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), suggested to allow states form their minimum wage in accordance with their financial capabilities. Speaking […]

A young Afghan fan of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi has fled his home and gone to Pakistan because his family feared he could be kidnapped after he became an unlikely Internet sensation, the boy's uncle said on Tuesday.

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah cinema in trouble with state regulators for serving alcohol during a showing of superhero film "Deadpool" will not get slapped with future citations under an obscenity law mostly regulating strip clubs, as long as the theater's lawsuit plays out in court.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah cinema in trouble with state regulators for serving alcohol during a showing of superhero film "Deadpool" will not get slapped with future citations under an obscenity law mostly regulating strip clubs, as long…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah cinema in trouble with state regulators for serving alcohol during a showing of superhero film "Deadpool" will not get slapped with future citations under an obscenity law mostly regulating strip clubs, as long…

HALIFAX, Virginia - Virginia prosecutors defended a decision Tuesday not to bring charges against police officers who used stun guns multiple times on a black man before his death, saying that although the officers may have acted inappropriately they don't think they could convict them of a crime.

Live Nation revenue had double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2016, an indicator of fortunes later in the year. Quarterly revenue grew 10...

On Monday, the Turkish parliament erupted into a full-on brawl in what is just the latest in a series of fights that have roiled Turkey's domestic politics in the past week. Here's video of the fight between members of the ruling AK Party and the pro-Kurdish opposition party, HDP, in which several people were reportedly injured:

WOW Air wants to send four Snapchat experts on the adventure of a lifetime.

National Research on Tuesday reported first quarter earnings that were up 49 percent compared with a year ago.

DENVER - A corrections officer who killed a man during a shootout at a Denver motorcycle show said he fired the first shot because members of another biker group were punching and cornering him, according to police reports released Tuesday that offer a new glimpse into the chaotic brawl.

LePage, who has earned renown for exercising his veto pen on bills he didn't like, adopted a Jack Russell terrier mix from a shelter. Last month, he vetoed a bill to allow people to buy a lifesaving drug overdose antidote without a prescription, saying it would've created a sense of normalcy around heroin use. LePage chose the name Veto because his pet "is the mascot of good public policy, defender of the Maine people and protector of hardworking taxpayers from bad legislation," his spokesman Peter Steele said.

ST. LOUIS — Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $55 million to a woman who claims its talcum powder caused her ovarian cancer, the second such judgment against the manufacturer in three months. “Unfortunately, the jury’s decision goes against 30 years of studies by medical experts around the world that continue to support the safety of cosmetic talc,” Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Carol Goodrich said in a statement announcing the company’s plan to appeal. “Instead of giving a warning... Читать дальше...