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Unlikely that Trump will replicate Reagan’s success

(AP) — A television station has found the reason one central Pennsylvania town stinks: a field of decaying radishes. Some people thought their propane tanks were leaking.

Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki was overseeing a blockbuster graft investigation into dozens of politicians.

BOSTON — Half a world away from Washington, James Taylor is greeting fans with a video bemoaning the end of the Obama era. The singer emailed a clip to fans on his mailing list from French Polynesia on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It shows him standing outside a grass hut in the rain.

Diego Costa wants to stay at Chelsea and will be available for Sunday's Premier League game against Hull, says manager Antonio Conte.

Philadephia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said he expects three interest rate increases in 2017 if the labor market improves.

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Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Ariel Winter has praised her "Modern Family" costar Sofia Vergara for helping her come to terms with her adult body.

The Trump Scoreboard in real-time will judge Donald Trump on what matters, to him: money.

According to the document posted on the Russian government's legal information portal, Russia and Syria have signed a protocol to the agreement on the Russian Aerospace Forces' airbase in Syria, which envisions deployment of Russian aircraft free of charge at a section of the Hmeymim airfield.

An illustration by Erin Stead for “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine,” an expanded version of an unfinished fairy tale by Mark Twain.

446 players received votes

More than 72 days after demonetisation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said it still does not know the "exact number" of junked currency notes that were in circulation and it is still "reconciling" the number of notes that were deposited back.

The animal shelter in Noida — Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) — is facing a severe cash crunch.

By some accounts, Costco golf balls perform like rivals that sell for more than twice as much.

While Donald Trump’s children have been in the limelight throughout the duration of his campaign, and later as a part of his transition team, his youngest daughter hasn't taken on quite as big of a role as her older siblings. Tiffany Trump, 23, the construction mogul’s only daughter with ex-wife Marla Maples, has not been seen making too many public appearances. One of her most notable events, however, was the Republican National Convention in July, which she attended with her boyfriend, Ross Mechanic.

On the Tuesday before inauguration, a mile from the nation’s Capitol Building where Donald Trump will take the oath of office, a crowd formed at the back of Washington, DC’s bourbon bar Barrel. A group of five blocked the stairway down to the bar’s basement speakeasy, snapping selfies with a taped up, life-size photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s head. Just past them, a woman paused to read a laminated sign: “Complimentary Wet Work, brought to you by the KGB.”

While a symbolic victory, this could actually make drug war violence worse.

PHILADELPHIA — A record-setting limbo dancer gave Philadelphia airport passengers some free entertainment this week when she scooted under a bench at a terminal. Shemika Charles, who goes by “The Limbo Queen,” had a layover in Philadelphia on her way to a scheduled performance at a basketball game in Wisconsin. She says on Twitter she

Press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, considers it a big mistake to think the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is "our" man.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he's "absolutely confident" the U.S. will stay committed to NATO despite Donald Trump calling the alliance obsolete.

Hillary Clinton will make history on Friday, but probably not the kind she wanted. Here in this tiny town in remote northwestern Kansas, she will be the first woman inducted into a museum that most Americans have never heard of, except for the people who live here and those eccentric few who travel the back roads of the country in search of extremely odd things. About a half-hour before Donald Trump takes the oath of office to become the nation’s 45th president, Clinton, his vanquished opponent... Читать дальше...

The managing director of ScotRail Alliance has stepped down, the BBC understands.

BT announces prices rises for its broadband and landline services, while television customers will start having to pay for BT Sport.

BEIJING, China - A travel agency worker helps with processing applications for visas and a pile of passports at the J...