SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who says polygamous leader Warren Jeffs forced her to marry her cousin when she was 14 has agreed to settle her lawsuit against the sect's communal property trust for $2.75 million, attorneys for…
Patrick Schwarzenegger is all smiles as he hits the red carpet at the 2016 Imagine Ball Benefit Concert held on Thursday (May 5) in West Hollywood, Calif. The 22-year-old actor and model was joined by Ashley Madekwe, Janet Montgomery, and performer of the evening Natasha Bedingfield at the event bringing awareness and financial support to [...]
The smiling crowds washed down heaping plates of paella with sangria at a massive spread of picnic tables in a riverside park during the event footed by Li Jinyuan and organized by China's U Tour travel company. The employees saw a bullfight in a town near Madrid complete with Spanish horse riders and flamenco dancers and then swigged sangria after an employee awards presentation followed by paella served from huge "paellera" pans used to cook and serve the dish.
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The once flush-with-cash town of Ordos, China, has been called the world's largest ghost town.
Roughly 15 years ago, a coal-mining boom led local government to throw money at urban development there, in the hopes of creating a new epicenter of culture, economy, and politics.
Ordos New Town — also known as Kangbashi — would hold 1 million residents and be known for its massive conceptual-architecture projects, residential towers, and state-of-the-art sports venues. Читать дальше...
Growth in parcel business couldn’t offset decline in letter delivery and higher benefit costs
After pregnancies resulting in a stillborn and a baby who lived for only an hour, Aderonke Ruffins can bask in Mother’s Day.
In the worst fighting in almost two years between Israel and Gaza Strip militants, repeated salvos of Palestinian mortar fire were met Friday by Israeli airstrikes deep in the coastal enclave as an escalation between the two sides reached a third worrisome day.
Wood planing is the art of shaving wood into really thin strips. It's a Japanese carpentry technique, and it's become competitive. Some people are able to shave wood thinner than the size of a cell.
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Grupo Televisa and TV Azteca failed to reach an agreement to buy the rights from Carlos Slim’s América Móvil to broadcast the Summer Games in Brazil.
Jumio Inc., an identity verification company, won court approval to sell its assets to an affiliate of Centana Growth Partners Friday, settling a court-supervised sale process rife with controversy.
HADLEY, Massachusetts - A Massachusetts woman who has been living in a tiny house she built as a college student is leaving town after voters rejected a proposal that would have made her dwelling legal.
(AP) — A Massachusetts woman who has been living in a tiny house she built as a college student is leaving town after voters rejected a proposal that would have made her dwelling legal. The Republican of Springfield reports (http://bit.ly/24yD0fb ) voters at a town meeting in Hadley on Thursday decided not to legalize backyard cottages.
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People in Russia recognise a kindred spirit to one of their own among the contenders campaigning to be US president.
A Carver County Court said that Bremer Trust can obtain the blood being kept by Midwest Medical Examiner for genetic testing.
Despite South China Sea territorial disputes exacerbating diplomatic disagreements between Beijing and Washington, the Chinese navy will participate in a series of US-initiated maritime drills this summer that are said to be the world’s largest.
BEIRUT — A coalition of Syrian rebels and jihadists seized a strategic village from pro-government forces outside the contested city of Aleppo on Friday, signaling the reemergence of a powerful, ultraconservative insurgent coalition on the opposition’s side in the Syria conflict. Renewed fighting erupted around the village of Khan Touman hours after opposition fighters took the position from pro-government forces, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported. The Army of Conquest seized Idlib... Читать дальше...
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Donald Trump didn't pull any punches while attacking Lindsey Graham in a lengthy statement Friday, after the South Carolina senator and former 2016 GOP presidential hopeful announced that he wouldn't be supporting his party's presumptive nominee.
"I fully understand why Lindsey Graham cannot support me," Trump wrote. "If I got beaten as badly as I beat him, and all the other candidates he endorsed, I would not be able to give my support either."
Graham tweeted on Friday... Читать дальше...
The WSJ staff offers predictions for the 2016 Kentucky Derby.
EAST LANSING, Michigan - A doctor credited with bringing Flint's water crisis to light after state agencies initially dismissed her concerns told Michigan State University graduates Friday to "raise your hands" and fight for justice.
Researchers in China have discovered the world’s longest insect. A two-foot-long stick insect was found wriggling on a mountain road in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2014 , according to state media. Xinhua reports: Zhao Li, with the Insect Museum of West China (IMWC) in Chengdu, found the 62.4-cm-long stick insect during a field inspection in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2014, breaking the record for length for all 807,625 insects discovered so far, according to the IMWC. The... Читать дальше...
J.C. Penney fell more than 6 percent after the New York Post reported the retailer faced "an expense challenge" in April.