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On Thursday morning, Kellyanne Conway spoke with Fox & Friends from the White House and delivered a straightforward message regarding the controversy surrounding retailers dropping the Ivanka Trump label. When asked about Ivanka and her father’s tweet on Wednesday addressing her issues with Nordstrom, Kellyanne shared, “This is a very successful business woman twice.

On Thursday morning, Kellyanne Conway spoke with Fox & Friends from the White House and delivered a straightforward message regarding the controversy surrounding retailers dropping the Ivanka Trump label. When asked about Ivanka and her father’s tweet on Wednesday addressing her issues with Nordstrom, Kellyanne shared, “This is a very successful business woman twice.

By Guy Curtright, The Sports Xchange
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks head out to the West Coast for their final games before the All-Star break.

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Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Buddhist monks and other protesters demonstrated in Myanmar against the arrival of a ship from Malaysia carrying aid for thousands of Rohingya people.

Punishing burglars is a common phenomenon that is practised around the world but a Chinese store owner went to the next level by punishing a rat which was caught “stealing” rice from his store in Zhuhai, China.

A diner at a busy shopping centre in undergoing a £500,000 refurbishment.

SEATTLE — There is so much symbolism in the simple shape of the heart — from love to compassion to the innermost aspect of being.

Steve Bannon disrupted American politics and helped elect Donald Trump as president. Will he disrupt the Roman Catholic Church by joining forces with right-wing Catholics who oppose Pope Francis?

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Usually, instant replay reviews are quick and easy. But not last night in Minnesota.

By Andrew Wagner, The Sports Xchange
MILWAUKEE -- Two teams headed in opposite directions maintained their current courses Wednesday night.

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ZAGAN, Poland/RUKLA, Lithuania (Reuters) - Immediately after Donald Trump was elected, U.S. diplomats urged Lithuania to rush through an agreement to keep American troops on its soil, reflecting alarm that the new, Russia-friendly U.S. president might try to stop more deployments in Europe.

The agreement was signed just a few days before Trump's inauguration, according to a document from the Lithuanian defense ministry, and became the first step locking the new U.S. Читать дальше...

Bring back Colin Firth.

Door een Russische luchtaanval in het noorden van Syrië zijn vandaag drie Turkse militairen om het leven gekomen en elf anderen gewond geraakt. Dat gebeurde volgens Defensie in Ankara per ongeluk. Het incident vond plaats in de buurt van al-Bab, het laatste bolwerk van Islamitische Staat in de provincie Aleppo. Naar de precieze toedracht wordt nog onderzoek gedaan.

Hoeveel heb je over voor een stuk bacon? In het Russische plaatsje Kalach toonde deze kat afgelopen week zijn klimkwaliteiten in een besneeuwde boom. Even glijdt de kater nog weg van een tak, maar hij weet zich behendig te herstellen. Uiteindelijk krijgt hij het voer, eigenlijk bestemd voor vogels, zonder problemen te pakken. Rustig en tevreden daalt de kat weer af uit de boom. De vogels blijven met lege snaveltjes achter.

Banks and other financial companies are leading U.S. stock indexes into record territory in midday trading Thursday. Investors are poring over earnings from Kellogg, Viacom and other companies. Energy stocks are also up as the price of crude oil heads higher. Utilities and real estate are lagging the market. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough lashed out at President Trump on Thursday morning, referring to Trump’s series of executive orders as a collective “nightmare” and condemning the President’s recent comments about the judicial branch. Trump called the courts “political” during a speech on Wednesday, while he awaits a decision from the ninth circuit regarding his executive order suspending travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Scarborough and the rest of the MSNBC panel went on to discuss Trump at length... Читать дальше...

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The European Union's enlargement commissioner is visiting Macedonia to encourage the formation of a new government, with coalition negotiations dragging following December's inconclusive early election.

Yılmaz Özdil ve Müjdat Gezen, Galatasaray adasına ilişkin yaptığı açıklama ile gündeme gelen Sultan 2. Abdülhamid'in torunu Nilhan Osmanoğlu'nu belaltı bir sohbetin konusu yaparak ahlaksızlıkta sınırları...Devamı için tıklayınız

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Facebook wants to create its own original shows, and now it's hired an executive from MTV to help.

Former MTV executive vice president Mina Lefevre is joining Facebook as its new head of development, she announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday night.

"I have always been drawn to the idea of building something and the idea of being part of the team that helps build Facebook's original content ecosystem...well, that just seems like a dream!" she wrote.

Lefevre was MTV's head of scripted programming... Читать дальше...

The latest rankings have been revealed with the Africa Cup of Nations winner surging up the standings.

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Do good managers look for consensus and strive to predict the future?

Not according to William Barnett, a professor of business leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

“Humans fear being a fool much more than they hope to be a genius,” he said during a recent discussion at the business school. Rather than risk looking foolish, employees may opt to support a consensus view or fear to voice controversial ideas, and that can lead to poor strategic choices for a business, he says. Читать дальше...

By Dave Del Grande, The Sports Xchange
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson celebrated his 27th birthday Wednesday like none of the previous 26.