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The striker's second spell at the Bombonera looks set to come to an end after 18 months, as he mulls over a money-spinning transfer to Shanghai Shenhua

At a ceremony in the seaside resort town of Nago on Thursday, Kennedy described the handover as a “milestone,” adding that “it also demonstrates America’s continued determination to reduce the impact of our presence here in Okinawa while maintaining our security commitments to the entire nation of Japan.” In exchange for the return of about half the acres that the American military uses to train soldiers for jungle warfare, the Japanese government agreed to build six helicopter landing pads on the land that the United States will retain. Читать дальше...

Volkswagen AG is refusing to let America’s nostalgia for the Microbus die, with plans to unveil at next month’s Detroit motor show an electric and autonomous vehicle with styling cues from the 1950s-era passenger vans.

WYOMISSING, Pa. (AP) — An outlet center near Philadelphia has been sold to a developer who wants to turn it into a mixed-use campus featuring offices, restaurants and retail stores.

WYOMISSING, Pa. (AP) — An outlet center near Philadelphia has been sold to a developer who wants to turn it into a mixed-use campus featuring offices, restaurants and retail stores.

Here is a final blog for 2016 from one of my students this semester. Ashley Pipari is a Senior double major in Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware. She wrote this blog just days after the Election, thinking of her future children and how to explain this to them.

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — Two juvenile big cats have been stolen from a private zoo in Virginia.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews says that his left shoulder injury is improving, and that he hopes to get more snaps in Saturday's game against the Minnesota Vikings.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews says that his left shoulder injury is improving, and that he hopes to get more snaps in Saturday's game against the Minnesota Vikings.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the world's oldest gorilla turning 60 (all times local):

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The downturn in Wyoming's mining and oil and gas industries have caused the state to experience its first population decline since 1990, but there are signs the state's economy has bottomed out and stabilized, economists said…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The downturn in Wyoming's mining and oil and gas industries have caused the state to experience its first population decline since 1990, but there are signs the state's economy has bottomed out and stabilized, economists said…

Bertie (41) mag zich de winnares van Expeditie Robinson 2016 noemen. De nuchtere Zeeuwse boerin nam het op tegen rapper Dio en oud-wielrenner Thomas Dekker. Het trio hield het het langst vol op de onbewoonde eilanden van de Filipijnen.

The autopsy results of WWE legend Joanie “Chyna” Laurer showed that the former wrestler had traces of several prescription drugs and alcohol when she died. Chyna’s body was found April 20 at her home in Redondo Beach, California, apartment. The drug cocktail found in her system included two painkillers, an anti-anxiety drug and a sleeping pill. They were, in the order previously listed: Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, Valium, Nordiazepam and Temazepam, TMZ reported Thursday.

President-elect Donald Trump says the US should enlarge its nuclear arsenal, an apparent reversal of a decades-long reduction of the nation's atomic weapons.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Less than a month from taking office, President-elect Donald Trump has yet to hold the traditional news conference that most incoming presidents have held within days of their victory.

Stormwater and marijuana dominated Albany city council meetings over the past year, and will likely shape debates and discussions moving into 2017.

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When Jared Kushner swooped in to buy the New York Observer in 2006, he embarked on a mini-media tour, posing with the paper at parties and sitting down with esteemed media reporters from The New York Times and New York magazine.

But after a decade as the owner of the iconic New York newspaper, Kushner appears to be potentially angling for a much more quiet exit.

WWD reported Wednesday that Kushner was exploring a sale, potentially to American Media Inc.... Читать дальше...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan played Santa Claus on Thursday, pledging $7 million over five years to help the western Maryland city of Hagerstown with a downtown revitalization plan anchored by educational and arts institutions. The Republican governor even sang "Jingle Bells" with scores of students from the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, a public high school that opened in 2009. Students at the arts high school now take academic classes in the university center and perform at the 1,300-seat theater.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has authorized Attorney General Brad Schimel to investigate how evidence collected during a secret investigation into Republican Gov. Scott Walker's campaign was leaked to a newspaper.

(AP) — The state Assembly has authorized Attorney General Brad Schimel to investigate how evidence collected during a secret investigation into Republican Gov. Scott Walker's campaign was leaked to a newspaper. The state Supreme Court said in its ruling halting the probe that such coordination is legal as long as it doesn't become express advocacy, a political term for advertising that specifically asks voters to defeat or elect a candidate. The leaked documents showed how Walker's top campaign... Читать дальше...

All the apps, hacks, habits, and products that made our lives a little better in 2016.

BERLIN (AP) — German officials presented mounting evidence Thursday that Anis Amri was behind the wheel of a truck that smashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, as authorities across Europe pressed ahead with their feverish manhunt for…