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GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois-based retailer is opening its first store in Kansas later this year and hopes to add three more in the state within 18 months.

The Syrian regime's key ally Russia launched heavy air strikes overnight on the outskirts of divided Aleppo city, slowing a "last-chance" assault by rebels seeking to break a government siege. The assault began on Sunday and is intended to ease the encirclement of the opposition-held east of Aleppo city, where an estimated 250,000 residents have been under regime siege since July 17. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described it as the largest rebel attack in Aleppo since 2012... Читать дальше...

Last week's Democratic National Convention gave Hillary Clinton a boost in the polls — as expected. But that bounce is larger than Donald Trump's and may be prolonged by the Republican nominee's disastrous last few days.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two liberal groups are appealing a legal ruling that loosens Wisconsin's voter photo identification requirement.

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels accused government forces of launching toxic gas attacks on civilians in a town southwest of Aleppo on Tuesday. The government rejected the claim and accused the rebels of using chemical weapons themselves.

Donald Trump said he would like to think Ivanka Trump would "find another career" if sexually harassed. Irin Carmon and Claudia Buchmann give their reactions to the statement.

Pope Francis has set up a panel to study whether women could serve as deacons, a role now reserved to men. The Vatican said Tuesday Francis "after intense prayer and mature reflection" decided to set up ...

Shares of Royal Caribbean sank after the cruise line's second-quarter earnings release.

Retail stocks beat up, but is the consumer really weakening?

GAUHATI, India — The death toll in flooding from heavy monsoon rains in India has climbed past 90, with about a million people taking shelter in government-run relief camps, officials said Tuesday. On Monday, landslides and heavy rains blocked highways leading to Tibet and Manali, a tourist resort in Himachal Pradesh state, with hundreds of people stranded for several hours before rescuers cleared the way, the Press Trust of India news agency said. In Bihar state, around 260,000 flood victims... Читать дальше...

The head of a union representing 4,500 Australian pilots urged officials this week to continue searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. David Booth, the president of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, told the Australian Monday that evidence suggesting the plane was being piloted until it crashed into the Indian Ocean justifies extending the scan for the Boeing 777.

LUBBOCK, Texas — Prosecutors recently dropped burglary charges against three former Texas Tech football players in exchange for the players’ agreeing to perform community service and meet other requirements. Under terms of the agreement, a felony charge of burglary of a habitation against each of the ex-players was dismissed and they will enter a pretrial

Brian Colon was filming as the drama unfolded shortly after the plane landed.

Rome is ready to assist Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) with humanitarian and medical aid, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni confirmed on Tuesday.

Céline Dion plays a quick round of “This or That” with Vogue.com while she’s in New York City. Justin Bieber or Justin Trudeau? Pajamas or Pantsuits? Watch to find out

Under practically any other circumstances, what Barack Obama just did would strike many people as entirely inappropriate.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The parents of "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the makers of Jeep Grand Cherokees, claiming the company manufactured unsafe gear selectors that led to their 27-year-old son being crushed…

Alleged incident occurred in late December.

Rapper Phife Dawg will soon be immortalized on the streets where he got his start.

Democratic National Committee CEO Amy Dacey has resigned amid the controversy over the release of a cache of hacked emails from the committee, according to a Democrat familiar with the matter.

The Panattieri family says a judge's sentence for their pit bull, which killed two dogs and a cat, violates due process rights.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Bob Costas and other top members of NBC’s Olympics coverage team veered between optimism and caution in predicting Rio de Janeiro’s ability to pull off a successful Summer Games and said NBC will cover the good and bad. Other Olympics have taken place without significant difficulties and he hopes it will

PATERSON, N.J. — A rapper who was part of Fetty Wap’s Remy Boyz recording group has been freed from jail after he was charged in a shooting that injured a 7-year-old boy. Justin Pope, known professionally as P-Dice, was freed last week after posting $250,000 bail and left jail in a Rolls Royce. Pope faces

Patton Oswalt wrote a touching piece after the sudden death of his beloved wife Michelle McNamara on his Facebook. The 47-year-old actor addressed the grief he still feels after she passed away in her sleep in the middle of the night this past April. “Thanks, grief. Thanks for making depression look like the buzzing little [...]