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While it's true you may no longer employ your technical skills in retirement -- whether they're in construction, health care or administration -- you do need other skills that are critical in charting your way through a successful retirement. In short, you have to learn how to relax and enjoy life as someone who no longer has to grind out the days at work.

A man is in stable condition after an officer-involved shooting in Eagle Rock early Tuesday morning. 

MI5 have foiled up to seven potential terror attacks across Britain over the past year by using a special technique that reads the minds of would-be attackers.

Ruling out any immediate transmission of rates despite RBI chief Raghuram Rajan blaming them of passing benefits "only modestly", bankers on Tuesday said interest rates will fall once credit growth picks up.

A Marseille waterpark has cancelled plans to host a private event for Muslim women wearing burqinis -- full-body swimsuits -- after they sparked outrage in secular France, authorities and the park said Tuesday.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany appears to have drastically curtailed its open-door policy for migrants in 2016, turning away 13,000 people without valid documentation in the first six months, already 4,000 more than in the whole of 2015, official data showed on Tuesday.

Around 117,500 migrants were admitted in the same period, compared to a record of more than one million migrants entering the country last year, mainly across the border from Austria.

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The average commuter wasted 42 hours and $960 snarled in traffic last year, a recent study finds.

Josh Barro, Senior editor at Business Insider, and Ken Vogel, Politico chief investigative reporter, comment on the latest polls and Trump’s waning support from the GOP.

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A bizarre scene unfolded Monday during the men's gymnastics finals when Ukraine intentionally tanked and forfeited a shot at a medal.

The move baffled the gymnastics world and now many are wondering if the team tanked on purpose to better set themselves up for the individual events. A similar move in badminton in 2012 ended with several athletes being kicked out of the games.

The Ukrainian team qualified seventh for the eight-team final, but during the final, it simply didn't try. Читать дальше...

Six years after failing to land Marc Lore's e-commerce start-up Quidsi, Wal-Mart paid up to buy Jet.com

When Bill Rauch applied to become the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in 2007, he pitched an ambitious ten-year project: the festival would commission thirty-seven new plays about moments of change in American history, on the model of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven-play canon. “Shakespeare wrote the history of his people onto the stage,” Alison Carey, who directs what became American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle, told me. “Why don’t we do that?” Last week, O.S.F. announced eight more commissions... Читать дальше...

Confused as to why Taran Killam is leaving Saturday Night Live? He is, too.  E! News confirmed on Monday that Killiam would not be returning for season 42 of the NBC sketch...

Iran said on Tuesday it would auction off property owned by billionaire Babak Zanjani, who was sentenced to death for corruption earlier this year.

The Patriots activated wide receiver Julian Edelman from the physically unable to perform list on Monday, but he may be headed back to the injured list. Tom Curran of CSN New England reports that Edelman walked off the field “with disgust” and threw his helmet away before sitting on a cart to be examined by…

E-commerce trends are forcing warehouse builders to redraw the map of logistics hubs on the East Coast.

While some people are shy about putting their personal life on social media, American merman Michael Phelps and fiancée Nicole Johnson are proud to show their love to the masses. Although the couple is not married yet, the future Mrs. Phelps will reportedly start to plan their wedding at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican. But Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country.

Happy National Veep Day! What do you mean, you don’t know what National Veep Day is? Another great reason to celebrate National Veep Day? Because it gives us a chance to revisit some of the best moments from our favorite TV veep (turned-temporary president), Veep’s Selina Meyer.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For animal rights activists across the country, one minor league baseball team's tradition of having capuchins ride atop dogs isn't some harmless monkey business.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For animal rights activists across the country, one minor league baseball team's tradition of having capuchins ride atop dogs isn't some harmless monkey business.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For animal rights activists across the country, one minor league baseball team's tradition of having capuchins ride atop dogs isn't some harmless monkey business.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For animal rights activists across the country, one minor league baseball team's tradition of having capuchins ride atop dogs isn't some harmless monkey business.

Leading Irish jockey Paul Carberry announces his retirement from the saddle after a distinguished career.

One driver hit a semitrailer after running a stop sign.