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Entertainers from all over the world flock to the United States since its entertainment industries — whether for movies, television, music, books, or theater — are some of the biggest in the world.

In addition to a surprising number of celebrities who are refugees from other countries, there are also quite a few immigrants from around the world. While some strike out and go back home, others achieve huge success and end up immigrating permanently, becoming US citizens. Читать дальше...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that Poland is endangering asylum-seekers fleeing persecution in the Russian province of Chechnya and elsewhere.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that Poland is endangering asylum-seekers fleeing persecution in the Russian province of Chechnya and elsewhere.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that Poland is endangering asylum-seekers fleeing persecution in the Russian province of Chechnya and elsewhere.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A police detective in western Oregon has agreed to quit to avoid potential criminal prosecution amid accusations of extramarital affairs.

Have you ever wished you had a different hair color in the middle of the day? This hair dye will do it for you with a little bit of heat. The FIRE hair dye is a concept by Lauren Bowker. When it is hit by heat or cold, it changes its pigment chemistry to adjust its color. Lauren's company, the Unseen, premiered the dye during London Fashion Week.

The 2016 elections didn't go the way Democrats had hoped, but some early 2017 elections have offered the party more hope.

“Darfur Now” writer/director Ted Braun follows hedge fund titan Bill Ackman’s “holy war” against nutrition company Herbalife claims Ackman is simply a market manipulator out to make a fortune from short-selling their stock, but Ackman insists Herbalife deliberately targets low-income and immigrant communities and robs them of their life savings. AlthoughBetting on Zero is a financial and political thriller, at the core of it are the victims that have been hit hard and have found themselves grappling with the messy aftermath. Читать дальше...

That was fast! The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday traded above 21,000 on Wednesday, putting it on pace to touch a psychologically significant level and tying the fastest pace to such a milestone.

What has the style icon been up to lately? She is launching a collection of handbags for the modern working woman as part of the SJP fashion brand offerings.

What has the style icon been up to lately? She is launching a collection of handbags for the modern working woman as part of the SJP fashion brand offerings.

The two were from a group of students who left studies in Sudan to join so-called Islamic State.

There was a major twist ending and a major snafu at the very end of the 2017 Academy Awards for the category of Best Picture. The wrong winner was declared. If you look back on the footage and analyze it, you could read on presenter Warren Beatty’s face that something was not right just before the Best Picture winner was announced.

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The White House responded on Wednesday to top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway's plug for Ivanka Trump's product line, concluding that Conway acted "without nefarious motive."

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At a 1 March meeting of the WTO’s Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR), the chair, Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica), reported on his recent consultations with WTO members on certain substantive and procedural questions in the ongoing talks on global disciplines for fisheries subsidies. The NGR agreed on several next steps in its process. The proponents for fisheries subsidies disciplines are seeking an agreed outcome at the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference (Buenos Aires, December 2017), in line with... Читать дальше...

The intellectual property (IP) aspects of electronic commerce, access to medicines, and the role of IP in promoting the participation of small businesses in trade were discussed by WTO members at a meeting of the Council for Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on 1 and 2 March.

The government of Lithuania has contributed EUR 19,000 (approximately CHF 20,000) in 2017 to help developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs) participate more effectively in global trade negotiations. WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo met with Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius at the WTO on 28 February 2017 to acknowledge Lithuania’s donation to the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF).

Ampd Energy wants to provide clean and reliable power to the billions of people and millions of businesses that live without it.

Wednesday: US President Trump faces accusations of ramping up anti-immigrant rhetoric with the launch of VOICE at his first address to Congress; and concerns grow over the media crackdown in Turkey following the arrest of a German journalist.

"Shell-ebrate" National Peanut Month with the most famous legume of all—Mr. Peanut.

These two panda cubs were born to Yang Yang on August 7, 2016, at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo. Sadly, half of all newborn pandas die in their first few weeks; that’s why they are only named after 100 days, according to Chinese tradition. These lovely twins grew big and healthy, and now they are released from an indoor enclosure for the first time.

CBS News poll finds many Democrats joining Republicans in liking much of what they heard

Wells Fargo's board of directors slashed the bonuses and other compensation of its CEO and seven other top executives on Wednesday, a little more than a week after the board publicly fired four senior managers amid an investigation into ...