Interim president announces ambitious budget measures a day after wiretap controversy
BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is urging her former employer, Harvard University, to let graduate students who work as research and teaching assistants at the school to form collective bargaining units. Warren and fellow Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Markey sent a letter to Harvard University President Drew Faust on Monday, saying the students' work has helped make Harvard an academic world leader.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner Lena Hall will join "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles. And there's also a twist — at some shows she'll play Hedwig.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner Lena Hall will join "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles. And there's also a twist — at some shows she'll play Hedwig.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner Lena Hall will join "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles. And there's also a twist — at some shows she'll play Hedwig.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner Lena Hall will join "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles. And there's also a twist — at some shows she'll play Hedwig.
A year after a Special Forces soldier was denied the Medal of Honor, a congressman has appealed to the new Army secretary to review the case. For his role in repelling a 2013 ambush in Afghanistan, Sgt. 1st Class Earl Plumlee had been recommended for the prestigious award but was ultimately denied by then-Army Secretary John McHugh.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) has been on the defensive since he vetoed a bill last month that would have increased access to a lifesaving overdose medication.
Читать дальше...Attorney Gloria Allred says her client Andrea Constand's argument that she was incapacitated and unable to give consent to comedian Bill Cosby will be at the center of the case.
A resident of New York State who was detained, attempted to travel overseas to support the Daesh terrorist group, according to US Attorney Preet Bharara.
As Philadelphia’s defensive coordinator, Jim Schwartz doesn’t really have any say in who wins the Eagles’ quarterback competition. But as a former head coach who was once tasked with determining when a rookie first-round draft pick, Matthew Stafford, was ready to be his starting quarterback, Schwartz has some insight. And Schwartz’s insight is this: first-round…
Louisiana wants to add attacks against first responders to its list of hate crimes
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While some of his colleagues have criticized the current trend of starting sentences with the phrase, "I feel like," linguist Geoff Nunberg says it's just a case of generational misunderstanding.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A California police officer shot and injured a suicidal 15-year-old boy who pointed a replica handgun at him, authorities said Tuesday.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A California police officer shot and injured a suicidal 15-year-old boy who pointed a replica handgun at him, authorities said Tuesday.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson's city attorney says she's stepping down, just a few weeks after the St. Louis suburb engulfed in racial unrest since Michael Brown's 2014 death announced they were looking to replace her as local prosecutor.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson's city attorney says she's stepping down, just a few weeks after the St. Louis suburb engulfed in racial unrest since Michael Brown's 2014 death announced they were looking to replace her as local prosecutor.
You probably know that a bullet was just dodged in Austria:
Right-wing Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has lost a runoff election against liberal opponent Alexander Van der Bellen 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, the country's interior minister announced. Hofer is a member of the Freedom Party, a group founded in the 1950s by former Nazis and led for many years by the nationalist politician Jörg Haider, who died in 2008. Hofer carried a handgun while campaigning and advocates... Читать дальше...
Four Federal Reserve banks are pushing the central bank to raise interest rates, minutes from the Fed's meeting showed.
Northern Ireland's Euro 2016-bound footballers are given a golfing clinic by four-time major winner Rory McIlroy.
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Oracle is suing Google for up to $9 billion.
The two were back in court this week, with an all-star list of witnesses.
At issue is Google's use of 37 application programming interfaces in its Android software that came from a programming language called Java that's owned by Oracle.
The software industry is in a tizzy over this case because if Oracle wins and Google has to pay up, it could set off an explosion of lawsuits in the industry.
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During his four-day visit to India recently, Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook was seen all over the country – Mumbai to Hyderabad, Bangalore to Kanpur and New Delhi.
Here’s a look at some of the most captivating photographs from across the globe.