Is the politics of Ivanka Trump's father harming her fashion label? Nordstroms, TJ Maxx and Marshalls have moved away from her brand, but a spokesperson for her fashion label said the brand's overall sales were up 21% in 2016 compared to the prior year.
A desperate determination to see his wife and children again helped sustain a man as he was trapped for hours beneath an excavator in a dam in northern NSW this week, with only his nose and the top of his head jutting/poking/ out of the dirty water.
A self-driving Uber test car in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto – whose city was the first to host Uber’s self-driving car pilot program – says he is in a “cooling off” period with the ride-hail giant and is “opening up” to other autonomous vehicle companies.
Peduto told BuzzFeed News that in the last year and a half of working with Uber, the city has catered to the company’s requests and welcomed its self-driving pilot. Now, Peduto says... Читать дальше...
Federal tax refunds through early February dropped 78% compared with last year, thanks largely to a law requiring the Internal Revenue Service to delay checks to households claiming certain tax credits.
Years too late, the fund tells the truth about Athens and bailouts.
Who do you think is most likely to vote Labor: the social conservative or the social progressive?
The proposal would create the first-ever laws addressing isolation in Minnesota prisons.
Nauwelijks een week nadat Neil Gorsuch door president Donald Trump naar voren werd geschoven als kandidaat voor het hooggerechtshof, heeft hij kritiek geuit op het twittergedrag van de president.
The remains of a car on Tuesday after it was burned the night before by protesters in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris.
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When Stanford grads Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt set out to launch their trading app Robinhood, they were aiming to provide a platform that was more accessible for beginner investors than traditional brokerage firms.
Robinhood doesn't charge a brokerage fee when a user buys or sells a stock. And it doesn't require a minimum deposit to open an account.
The company's low cost and easy-to-use platform - users can start trading within minutes of opening an account - has cemented its popularity among millennials. Читать дальше...
Bruce Jessen, left, and James Mitchell
Who has the fastest internet? It’s hard to say. It’s even harder for Comcast to say, thanks to a ruling from the National Advertising Review Board (NARB) that asks the internet service provider to stop claiming it has “fastest internet.”
(AP) — A federal judge has refused to set bail for a Reno doctor who has been jailed for 10 months while awaiting trial on charges for his alleged role in an illegal prescription painkiller ring. Dr. Robert Rand is scheduled to go to trial in April 25 on three felony drug charges, including one count of illegally distributing a controlled substance causing death. West, 40, admitted as part of a plea bargain agreement he bought oxycodone and other prescription opioids from Rand and sometimes sold... Читать дальше...
The Trans-Canada Highway reopened on Wednesday after being closed for about nine hours due to an avalanche that blocked a large stretch between Alberta and British Columbia. No injuries were reported.
Casino giant Crown will expand its Southbank site to eight hectares after it won approval from the Andrews government to build a $1.75 billion 90-storey tower.
In the 1986 letter and statement, the widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. said Sessions' actions as a federal prosecutor in Alabama were "reprehensible" and that he used his office "in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters." A scan of Sessions' hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee record shows no mention of King's statement, her letter or any indication she opposed Sessions' nomination as a federal judge. [...] Thaddeus Strom, former Thurmond... Читать дальше...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Moving swiftly, a Maryland Senate committee voted Wednesday for a resolution to enable the attorney general to sue the federal government should the Trump administration take harmful actions against the state. The resolution would give the attorney general the authority to sue the federal government without permission from the governor for actions that may pose a threat to the health or welfare of residents. Under the Maryland Defense Act of 2017, the attorney general could sue to protect the health... Читать дальше...
Political events in the Bay Area Political events this week in the Bay Area: Facebook Live town hall: Hosted by Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, from 7 to 8 p.m. Speier will take questions from users who comment on the stream. Information on travel ban: Attorneys from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus will answer questions on President Trump’s executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven mostly Muslim nations, along with all refugees. Читать дальше...
Once the hottest sector around, fintech has seen its fair share of failures and struggles as of late. Here's why.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz is seen in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, NY, USA on December 14, 2016. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch/IPX
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According to an official statement Melania Trump has selected Anna Christina "Rickie" Niceta Lloyd as White House social secretary.
(AP) — A Tennessee Republican who was drummed out of the state House amid a series of sexual harassment allegations that earned him the nickname "Pants Candy" now faces an audit that claims he spent campaign funds on restaurant meals, alcohol and landscaping at his home. [...] Durham's campaign loaned $120,000 at a 5 percent interest rate to Life Watch Pharmacy, a company owned by Andy Miller Jr., a prominent GOP donor who once bankrolled a European trip for state lawmakers to show them what he called the perils of radical Islam. Читать дальше...
Coretta Scott King Video Makes A Fool Out Of Elizabeth Warren On Tuesday night Senator Elizabeth Warren was told to ...
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On January 17, a Japanese website published an explosive story that said a South Korean court had overturned the conviction of a man accused of raping two Japanese girls in Seoul.
The story reported that a man named Lee Mu-hyun raped two sisters, aged 11 and 9, in 2000 when the girls' family was visiting South Korea from Japan. It quoted a judge named Kim Jun saying, "It is highly possible the accused is truly the culprit, and unlikely the crime was committed by another. Читать дальше...