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The federal judge overseeing Oakland’s mandatory police reforms lashed out at city officials Thursday and ordered the city to pay for court-appointed experts to fix the troubled Police Department — with or without a city contract. “This is untenable,” U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson said of the City Council’s refusal this week to renew the annual contracts with compliance director Robert Warshaw and his consulting group, Police Performance Solutions LLC. Henderson ordered the city to... Читать дальше...

Samsung will announce the cause of the Galaxy Note 7 fires a day before its full-year 2016 earnings.

Kagwad's BJP MLA Bharamagouda alias Raju Kage and his family, absconding since January 9 in an attempt-to-murder case, were tracked down to the Blue Mormon Resort, 120km from Pune, on Wednesday night, and arrested.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to launch swiftly his administration’s deregulatory agenda, according to lobbyists who have discussed the matter with the transition team, affecting rules governing everything from investment advice to mortgage insurance and power-plant emissions.

Dirk Nowitzki tries to avoid feelings of nostalgia.

On Friday, January 20, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Here's what you need to know about the history, tradition, and rules surrounding Inauguration Day, including who picks up the tab.

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson's casino company is paying almost $7 million to U.S. authorities to end a more than five-year corrupt practices investigation of ...

A 27-year-old truck driver allegedly murdered his wife and tried to dispose of the body in Sidhwan Canal. The couple was married for just a year. The couple used to fight frequently after the accused came to know that his wife was already married.

President-elect Donald Trump attended a luncheon with leaders of Congress and several of his administration picks, calling them out, making jokes, and boasting that they have “by far the highest IQ of any cabinet ever assembled.”
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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team reportedly wanted to include tanks and missile launchers during the inaugural parade Friday, sources told The Huffington Post.

According to the report, Trump's team wanted to have the military featured front and center, typically seen in parades in Russia and North Korea.

“They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” a source involved in Trump's inaugural parade preparation told the Huffington Post. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — Right-hander Mike Fiers and the Houston Astros have avoided salary arbitration, agreeing to a $3.45 million, one-year contract.

HOUSTON (AP) — Right-hander Mike Fiers and the Houston Astros have avoided salary arbitration, agreeing to a $3.45 million, one-year contract.

WASHINGTON (AP) — While unemployment has fallen significantly and inflation is starting to tick higher, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday she does not believe that the central bank has fallen behind the curve and needs to start pushing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — While unemployment has fallen significantly and inflation is starting to tick higher, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday she does not believe that the central bank has fallen behind the curve and needs to start pushing…

Yellen said the Fed's approach should improve prospects that the economy will achieve sustainable growth, with the labor market operating at full employment and inflation running close to the central bank's 2 percent target. Some private economists have predicted that the Fed will accelerate its rate hikes this year if the incoming Trump administration is successful in getting Congress to approve tax cuts and other measures to boost economic growth. In a speech in San Francisco on Wednesday, Yellen... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it disagrees with Republicans in North Carolina who claim a $400 million clean energy project slated to power data centers for Amazon.com Inc. poses a threat to national security.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it disagrees with Republicans in North Carolina who claim a $400 million clean energy project slated to power data centers for Amazon.com Inc. poses a threat to national security.

Céline Dion keert terug bij Beauty and the Beast. In de live-action remake van Beauty and the Beast zingt ze niet de bekende titelsong, maar een geheel nieuw liedje. Dat maakte ze donderdagavond bekend op Instagram.

A hospital applies for a court order to remove a patient who had occupied a bed "unnecessarily".

Discerning the real growth path at the venerable tech company needs a supercomputer

On September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin was leaving the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention, at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, a woman called out to him, saying, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”

US defense contractor Dyncorp Company won a more than $30 million contract from the US Army under its foreign military sales program to provide maintenance engineering services for aircraft to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, the Department of Defense said in a press release on Thursday.

OSIM, which makes massage chairs and other devices, is planning a Hong Kong IPO that could value the company at roughly $1 billion. Photo: OSIM

President Obama with the Chicago Cubs during a celebration of their World Series win at the White House this week.