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Larry Mitchell, co-founder of famed ice cream parlor, dies Ice cream veteran Larry Mitchell was a man of adventurous tastes — not just chocolate and strawberry, but also ube (purple yam), macapuno (sweet coconut), lychee and avocado. About a dozen other customers lingered outside the shop, including players from a youth basketball team who had just won a regional tournament. Opened in 1953, Mitchell’s still hawks many of the flavors that its eponymous founder concocted in the 1960s and ’70s — a period of freewheeling experimentation... Читать дальше...

A Dallas jury convicted Nykerion Nealon, 18, of killing Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36. The jury immediately began deliberating on a sentence.

Barely one week after the announcement of OzzFest/KnotFest with headliners Black Sabbath and Slipknot, Move Concerts announced a new...

Taxes are kind of necessary to keep our civilization humming, with schools, police, courts, roads, and so on.

Michael Morris, media analyst at Guggenheim, tells CNBC's "Power Lunch" why a shake-up at Viacom could be a good thing.

The Brazil captain has been the subject of much transfer speculation, but he assured that he is happy in Catalunya as he celebrated the Copa del Rey title lifted on Sunday

Additional funds have amounted to nearly half the agency’s budget for the past two years

The Mansour strike will be wasted without more U.S. help from the air.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Massachusetts, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and George Abrams, a Viacom director, challenged the mental competency of the 92-year-old mogul and alleged that he had been manipulated by his daughter into removing them from a trust that will control the direction of his companies. The legal war erupted after Redstone on Friday unexpectedly ousted Dauman and Abrams from the trust, which will gain control of Redstone’s companies when he dies or is declared incompetent. The... Читать дальше...

Whoopi Goldberg Speaks About Learning Disorders At Child Mind InstituteNEW YORK, NY – MAY 03: Whoopi Goldberg speaks about Learning Disorders at Child Mind Institute at Kaye Playhouse on May 3, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Debra L Rothenberg/FilmMagic) Actress-turned-TV host WHOOPI GOLDBERG is developing a reality show about transgender models. The “Ghost” star will executive produce Strut, which will center on the talent and bosses at Slay Model Management, the first exclusively transgender modeling agency. Читать дальше...

Eduardo Escobar is back at shortstop for the first time since May 6, moving Eduardo Nunez to Dozier's spot at second base.

Opening night draws array of leaders from business, finance and politics

The flower show attracts a dazzling array of business, finance and political elite

Feds are looking into whether donations made to him violated federal law.

LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in Grant County of southwestern Wisconsin were on the lookout for a fugitive — a huge snake — but now they're standing down.

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton taught us that only bluenoses worry about a pol’s treatment of women.

SALEM, Oregon (AP) — Sparks flew Monday during a hearing attended by ranchers and environmentalists in the state Capitol on a proposal to turn 2.5 million acres of canyonlands and desert in southeastern Oregon into a federally protected monument.

Watch What Happens Live - Season 13WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE — Pictured: Gillian Anderson — (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) THE X-FILES star GILLIAN ANDERSON has offered up her services as the next 007. The actress caught sight of a new online billboard campaign, which features a snap of herself cleverly Photoshopped into a Bond movie poster, and told fans she’d love to be the first Jane Bond. “Thanks for all the votes! (And sorry, don’t know who made poster but I love... Читать дальше...

Abdirahman Bashiir faced intense defense scrutiny about $119,000 in FBI payments, his change of heart in the third week of the federal terror recruitment trial.

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I spent most of this past Saturday  reclined on a couch with an ice pack on my head, trying to ease a splitting headache. It was one of those days where you cast about for any inane thing to distract you from the throbbing pain.

And boy, did I discover a great inane thing: "Slither.io."

Playable in your web browser, or through apps for Android and iOS, "Slither.io" is a kind of souped-up, massively-multiplayer version of that old dumbphone game "Snake." 

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You start out as a little worm... Читать дальше...

A US Judge sentenced a Canadian-Iranian citizen to three years in prison for conspiracy to violate economic sanctions placed on Iran, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said in a statement.

Activists are getting tattoos to highlight the rising level of carbon dioxide in the world's atmosphere.

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Louisiana's hate crime law already protects vulnerable minorities from attacks based on their race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation, but state lawmakers want to add another group to the mix: cops.

The state's House and Senate have already approved the measure — dubbed the the "Blue Lives Matter bill" — and it just needs the signature of Governor John Bel Edwards in order to become law. Edwards is expected to approve the bill, which also covers firefighters... Читать дальше...

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The 4% rule is a popular rule of thumb according to which retirees can withdraw 4% of their capital in their first year of retirement and adjust that amount for inflation annually.