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San Francisco native Lena Hall, who won a Tony Award in 2014 for her performance of Yitzak in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” will reprise the part for the San Francisco leg of the show’s national tour, producer SHN announced on Tuesday. Additionally, for select performances in the Oct. 2-30 run, Hall will play the role of Hedwig, along with Yitzhak — a clever comment on the glam rock musical’s themes of identity and gender fluidity. Written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, the musical... Читать дальше...

Bassett Racing lost all of its cars and equipment in a fire last Friday.

Phillomath High’s Austin Gerding was named the Oregon West Conference’s baseball player of the year and Levi Webber the coach of the year.

They run the gamut from the JFK assassination to Vince Foster's death to, of course, Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Apple

The Apple Watch hasn't exactly been a flop, but it hasn't been the Next Big Thing product that Cupertino needed after the iPhone became a dominant profit driver.

The company now seems conflicted about the Watch's future.

On one hand, it's angling to keep the device ensconced in the luxury realm, through collaborations with Hermès, a French luxury goods purveyor.

On the other hand, it's presenting the Watch as more of a lifestyle enhancer. In fact, Apple CEO Tim... Читать дальше...

For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34, an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center has found. [...] the proportion of older millennials — those ages 25 to 34 — who are living at home has reached its highest point (19 percent) on record, Pew analysts said. The pattern may be a contributing factor in the sluggish growth of the U.S. economy, which depends heavily on consumer spending. With more young people living with their parents rather than on their own... Читать дальше...

Befuddlement ensued when the AXA Group announced Monday that it would divest more than $2 billion from the tobacco industry. Why dump a sector that has outperformed the market in recent years, even if doing so does mean being more socially responsible?

Koskinen and his Democratic defenders denied the allegations, with Democratic lawmakers accusing Republicans of pursuing a political vendetta. While the IRS has conceded that it treated conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status unfairly earlier this decade, Democrats said Republicans were ignoring previous investigations that have found the IRS' destruction of some emails sought by Congress was due to incompetence, not a purposeful effort to hide evidence. [...] in one measure of the nasty election year climate... Читать дальше...

At any given time, there are some good stocks, some bad stocks, and an awful lot in between.

Morningstar analysts think Goldman Sachs' stock is set to outperform, in part thanks to its digital push.

Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book mixtape is a hot commodity, becoming the first streaming-exclusive set to chart in the Billboard...

France has enough fuel reserves for 115 days of consumption on average, according to official announcement.

Relative bond yields have been the main force behind changes in currency values

Indian company set to finalise shortlist of bidders for UK steel operations

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The Buffalo Bills released a strict new media policy to credentialed reporters on Tuesday for the start of the team's organized training activities (OTAs).

Among other things, the new policy limits what information reporters can relay during training camp and practices, including plays, strategies, formations, what groups player are practicing in, and specific plays like dropped passes, incomplete passes, and interceptions.

The NFL world reacted predictably... Читать дальше...

Congress has an 11% approval rating but an 85% reelection rate.

This month, regional battles over the right of transgender people to access public bathrooms were elevated to national legal theatre. First, the Justice Department told North Carolina that its recent law, requiring education boards and public agencies to limit the use of sex-segregated bathrooms to people of the corresponding biological sex, violated federal civil-rights laws. Governor Pat McCrory responded with a lawsuit, asking a court to declare that the state’s law doesn’t violate those federal laws. Читать дальше...

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday rolled out a list of prominent party fundraisers who have agreed to work on behalf of their joint fundraising committee, as the New York businessman seeks to ramp up his fundraising efforts ahead of the general election.

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PARK FOREST, Ill., May 24 (UPI) -- Two FBI agents were shot while serving a warrant near Chicago, officials said, and the suspected shooter was later found dead inside the suburban home.

Rights holders and ISPs in Australia have quietly shelved a plan to monitor and notify repeat copyright infringers, citing issues on how to pay for...

The sports book at the Hooters casino just off the Strip was robbed at gunpoint Monday night, according to Metro Police. No shots were fired, and nobody ...

Dallas Police

DALLAS (Reuters) - A Dallas jury sentenced a teenager to 38 years in prison on Tuesday for murdering an Iraqi immigrant as he took family pictures while experiencing snow for the first time.

Nykerion Nealon, 19, was convicted on Monday of fatally shooting Ahmed al-Jumaili, 36, in March 2015 in the parking lot of his apartment complex.

Al-Jumaili had only been in the United States for about three weeks and authorities had thought the case might have been a hate crime. Читать дальше...

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