RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s most powerful criminal gang, First Command, is exploiting overcrowding and squalid conditions in the country’s penitentiaries to expand its reach across the national prison system, an incursion at the center of massacres that have left nearly 100 inmates dead in the new year. Some prisoners were beheaded or had their
Interdependence is seen as weakness and nationalism has been rekindled
Eric DuVall
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Fiat Chrysler rigged more than 104,000 Jeep and Dodge trucks with software to cheat federal emissions tests.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone split over a year ago, but he still has much love for his ex-girlfriend and couldn’t be more proud of her La La Land success! “We care about each other so much, and that’s a given, that’s kind of this unconditional thing,” the-33-year-old actor recently expressed while promoting his film [...]
NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are going back to their old — and much larger — stomping grounds. The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League said Thursday that the telecast on June 11 will originate from the 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, the show’s long preferred home because of its size and proximity
Admit it — there’s at least one song, new or old, that you just can’t help but belt out behind the wheel. You’re not alone.
Boston and Washington scrapped last night
“Cool For The Summer” singer Demi Lovato broke up with UFC fighter Luke Rockhold, but she seemed happier than ever during a trip to Kenya. The former Disney star posted multiple updates of her African vacation to social media.
Suspected airport gunman became increasingly erratic Last week, Santiago got off a one-way flight from Anchorage at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arriving with a single piece of checked luggage: a Walther 9 mm semi-automatic handgun in a case. The 26-year-old Iraq War veteran was usually a quiet and solitary figure, those who knew and worked with him said. Santiago grew up in Penuelas, Puerto Rico, a once-thriving middle-class town of 20,000 where people worked in petrochemical plants that have since closed. Читать дальше...
Azoulay says his party will bring bill criminalizing progressive prayer at Western Wall at earliest opportunity.
ALSOZSOLCA, Hungary (AP) — When there's firewood to be chopped, Ferenc Vadasz cuts class.
With the mercury dipping to a low of 2 degrees Celsius, Delhi government has directed the schools run by it to extend their winter break till January 19 in wake of the chilly weather in the national capital and private schools to take action as per their assessment.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing to expand from Cupertino to Hollywood by developing original video content for its streaming service, Apple Music. Apple execs are reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios to produce scripted TV programs for the service, while more preliminary talks to produce movies are also being made. According to Business Insider, Spotify Premium had 40 million paying subscribers as of September 2016, while Apple Music only reached the 20 million subscriber mark last month. Читать дальше...
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing to expand from Cupertino to Hollywood by developing original video content for its streaming service, Apple Music. Apple execs are reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios to produce scripted TV programs for the service, while more preliminary talks to produce movies are also being made. According to Business Insider, Spotify Premium had 40 million paying subscribers as of September 2016, while Apple Music only reached the 20 million subscriber mark last month.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's most powerful criminal gang, First Command, is exploiting overcrowding and squalid conditions in the country's penitentiaries to expand its reach across the national prison system, an incursion at the center of massacres that have…
The Weeknd continues to stun with the release of another visually lit (pun-intended) music video, this one for his Starboy track “Party Monster...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Many Haitians lit candles and offered prayers Thursday to remember relatives and neighbors who died in a catastrophic earthquake that struck near the Caribbean nation’s capital seven years ago. Hairdresser Nerlande Voltaire, Bible in hand, attended a church service in Port-au-Prince to honor her mother, who was crushed by a building reduced to
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The use of encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal should not serve as a basis for surveillance of Americans, according to Rep. Mike Pompeo, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA.
In a questionnaire submitted by Sens. Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, lawmakers asked Pompeo to clarify his stance on the personal use of encrypted communication, and whether that use might trigger government suspicion.
"In my view, a US person's... Читать дальше...
Diversifying helped Vincent and Vanice Serrano succeed.
Welsh pilot scheme looks expensive but should go ahead regardless
Wade Sheridan
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Dax Shepard and Michael Pena hit the road as California highway patrolmen in the first trailer for the upcoming comedy reboot, "CHiPs."