Some 450 German special commandos made 12 co-ordinated raids on Thursday and arrested two men suspected of planning an imminent Islamist attack, police said. Guns, munitions and a machete were recovered in the swoop launched on the basis of indications of a "possible concrete impending terrorist attack" by Salafists, ultra-conservative Islamists, mostly in the university town of Goettingen. No concrete plans of a targeted attack or evidence of links to Islamic State were found.
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Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Brazil indicted ex-billionaire Eike Batista and the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, on corruption charges involving $16.5 million in bribes.
Viacom’s new Paramount Network will get an influx of cash as part of greater Media Networks spend, company CEO says Spike TV’s upcoming rebrand to The Paramount Network will include a “significant” amount of scripted programming, Viacom President and CEO Bob Bakish said on Thursday. Next year’s shift from Spike to Paramount Network comes as part of Bakish’s five-point plan for parent company Viacom, which he unveiled this morning along with the company’s first-quarter 2017 earnings.
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President Donald Trump turned to Twitter on Thursday morning to attack Sen. John McCain for criticizing a US military raid in Yemen last month.
"Sen. McCain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media," Trump tweeted. "Only emboldens the enemy!"
He continued: "He's been losing so long he doesn't know how to win anymore, just look at the mess our country is in — bogged down in conflict all over the place."
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'Dark shadows' in markets, says Larry Fink of BlackRock
All of the undergraduates died within the first weeks of the academic year.
New York is three points behind Philadelphia for the final Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference.
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When the 2018 Winter Olympics begin, Bob Costas won’t be anchoring the primetime coverage from PyeongChang. Those duties will now go to Mike Tirico, the former ESPNer who joined NBC last year.
Costas has served as the primetime host of every Olympic Games broadcast by NBC since 1992. “It has been both a privilege and an incredible personal and professional experience to have been part of NBC’s Olympic coverage all these years,” said Costas, who... Читать дальше...
NEW YORK (ANP) - Twitter is donderdag flink onderuitgegaan op de beurs in New York. Beleggers zetten het aandeel in de eerste handelsminuten bijna een tiende lager vanwege tegenvallende cijfers. Verder was het sentiment op Wall Street over het algemeen licht positief.
Poland is eager to have the best possible relations with the United States, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday.
Donald Trump has taken much heat from both liberals and conservatives over his administration, but not a single member of his team appears to have been as polarizing as Stephen Bannon, the former executive chair of right-wing website Breitbart News who currently serves as White House chief strategist and senior counselor to the US president.
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Tribe fighting Dakota Access oil pipeline files legal challenge to try to block project's completion.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says there’s no chance he’ll reach out to the New England Patriots about visiting his state following the club’s Super Bowl victory. The Republican governor made the comment during an interview on WGAN-AM on Thursday morning. An interviewer asked if there was any way LePage would reach out
Malia Obama was CHASED down a NYC street by the paparazzi. Ever since the eldest Obama daughter arrived in Manhattan two weeks ago – she’s been followed by photogs. At first, Malia appeared to like all the attention – now she just wants her privacy. Malia is in NYC for her very prestigious internship with […]
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Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) faked his Vietnam War service and lied about being the captain of the Harvard Swim ...
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RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan on Thursday ironically called on the CIA to keep an eye out for young US President Donald Trump lookalike working for the broadcaster.
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Time Warner’s Q4 2016 earnings beat analyst expectations as revenue climbed 11% year-over-year to $7.9 billion.
The better-than-expected results come as AT&T is acquiring in the company for $85.4 billion, a transaction that faces a lengthy review process from regulators at a time of heightened uncertainty in Washington.
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As Edward Snowden awaited possible extradition on the other side of the world, another National Security Agency contractor accused of stealing and leaking a large trove of classified information faced federal charges this week amounting to a potential 200 years in prison over his violation of the Espionage Act.
ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition takes a look at how American artists found inspiration in rural landscapes during an era of modernist art that was more closely associated with cities.
ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition takes a look at how American artists found inspiration in rural landscapes during an era of modernist art that was more closely associated with cities.
ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition takes a look at how American artists found inspiration in rural landscapes during an era of modernist art that was more closely associated with cities.
ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition takes a look at how American artists found inspiration in rural landscapes during an era of modernist art that was more closely associated with cities. Thomas Hart Benton, usually associated with the Midwest, traveled to the South and captures a weathered old tobacco farmer teaching a slight young girl about tobacco leaves in "Tobacco Sorters," a commission for a tobacco company that was ultimately rejected. "Opening Day at Talladega College," painted by Hale Woodruff in 1942... Читать дальше...
ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition takes a look at how American artists found inspiration in rural landscapes during an era of modernist art that was more closely associated with cities.