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It's the start of graduation season, and President Obama spoke at the Historically Black Howard University graduation ceremony earlier today. The Washington Post reports that Obama

Only the trickle of the Rio Grande and a couple of miles separated Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from American soil Saturday. Guzman was transferred from the maximum-security Altiplano lockup in central Mexico to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a senior Mexican law enforcement source told CNN. “Due to the proximity (to the […]

Caitlin Schneider Much is made of encouraging women and girls to join Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields traditionally dominated by the male gender, and rightly so. While women are indeed underrepresented, a new piece of history has emerged that suggests—in conjunction with many other stories like it—that numbers are only one part of the problem. The other part, it seems, is getting your story told. Microbiologist and writer Nathalia Holt, author of Rise of the Rocket Girls... Читать дальше...

Polls show Donald Trump trailing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, but Republicans may yet coalesce around Trump.

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It's not often you come across an all-woman management team in business — or in tech. 

It's even less likely you'll find one that came together organically.

But that's the case for the robo-adviser Betterment's new 401(k) business line, Betterment for Business, which was built from the ground up by a group of five women.

"What I think is so cool about this is that this wasn't intentional," Jaime Strollo, the team's product design manager, told Business Insider. Читать дальше...

On Friday, at 1:21 a.m. ET, exactly on schedule, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off for a mission that would be one of its most impressive to date.

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With excellent perks, great pay and benefits, and high job satisfaction, employees at this year's 50 best companies to work for in America seem to have a good thing going for them.

But before you start seething with envy, you should see some of the questions they had to answer to get there.

To find these difficult and sometimes odd queries, Business Insider sifted through hundreds of reviews on Glassdoor submitted by people who recently interviewed at the top companies. Читать дальше...

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The Denver Broncos moved up five spots in the first round of the draft to select quarterback Paxton Lynch, who appears not that far away from being game-ready.

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Belgium and Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has confirmed that he will miss Euro 2016 after suffering yet another injury setback.

Rescue workers said they were astonished.

A man who was trapped under thousands of tonnes of cheese for eight hours has walked away unharmed, rescue workers who attended the incident have said.

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Forklift truck driver Tomasz Wiszniewski became trapped when storage units holding boxes of the cheese at a warehouse in Shropshire collapsed on him on Friday morning.

A team including ambulance workers, an emergency doctor... Читать дальше...

Giants have something familiar to give Lincecum if he re-signs, plus lineups Tim Lincecum might not have a guaranteed spot in the rotation if he returns to the Giants, but he will have his old uniform number, 55. The clubhouse employees who assign numbers will not give 55 to anyone else this year. Nor will any player wear Jeremy Affeldt's 41. Mike Murphy made that number off limits after Bonds' final year, 2007, and the that tradition will remain indefinitely. The Giants ultimately will reuse... Читать дальше...

Clayton Kershaw struck out 10, Joc Pederson and Justin Turner hit solo home runs and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Toronto 6-2 Saturday, ending the Blue Jays' season-high winning streak at four

Two Afghan army recruits opened fire on international coalition soldiers in Kandahar province on Saturday, killing two Romanians and wounding another.

The Pacific Northwest city is using tax money to pay for the arts instead of sports facilities, says Jason Notte.

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox appears to be contrite about his previous forceful condemnation of Donald Trump's proposed border wall.

In an interview with Breitbart News, the former president apologized for saying he would not pay for Trump's "f------ wall" during an interview with Fusion in February.

“I apologize. Forgiveness is one of the greatest qualities that human beings have, is the quality of a compassionate leader," Fox said on Wednesday.

"You have to be humble. Читать дальше...

Leicester City celebrated their Premier League triumph in a fitting manner with a 3-1 victory over Everton at home.

Among the changes announced Saturday was the replacement of the country’s long-serving oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, who is in his 80s.

The man at the helm of PlayStation's virtual reality efforts believes no one game will convince you to buy Sony's virtual reality headset.

GORDON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker traveled to northwestern Wisconsin for the 51st annual Governor's Fishing Opener.

The explosion of the Zika virus has the sports world on high alert, between baseball games in Puerto Rico and summer Olympics in Brazil. Professor at LSU Health Sciences Center, Dr. Corey Hebert, discusses the reality of the threat of Zika.