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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the confirmation hearing for the Trump administration's top civil rights lawyer (all times local): 4 p.m. The Washington labor lawyer tapped to be the Trump administration's top civil rights attorney is offering assurances of his commitment to defending voting rights and prosecuting hate crimes. Eric Dreiband (DRY-band) said during a Wednesday hearing that hate crimes will be his top priority if he is confirmed to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division. Читать дальше...

The famed Jewish deli comes back to life in a remembrance-filled cookbook, written by the founders’ granddaughter.

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President Donald Trump sided with Democrats during a crucial meeting on the debt ceiling and other congressional priorities Wednesday, bucking his own Treasury secretary and leaving key members of his party furious.

The meeting was designed to discuss legislation to provide relief for Hurricane Harvey, raise or suspend the debt ceiling, and fund the government past the end of September.

According to a source briefed on the meeting, the two sides had come... Читать дальше...

A Rohingya woman was taken for medical care on Monday after being injured by a land mine near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.

COLD SPRING, Minn. (AP) — Students at a central Minnesota high school are flying American flags on their pickup trucks to protest a recent ban. Rocori High School in Cold Spring has changed the student handbook to ban all flags and banners on vehicles in the school parking lot. Superintendent Scott Staska says the change came after last spring when Confederate flags began showing up on vehicles in the parking lot. He says school administrators are responsible for creating a safe and respectful environment... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks ended higher Wednesday, shrugging off geopolitical jitters surrounding North Korea as energy shares rallied and President Donald Trump and lawmakers reached a deal to extend the deadline on the debt ceiling by three months. The S&P 500 ended 0.3% higher near 2.465, according to preliminary figures, while the Dow industrials advanced around 54 points to end near 21,807. The Nasdaq Composite finished 0.3% higher near 6,393.

The footage actually shows a tornado and is more than a year old.

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Mike Francesa hates acknowledging the existence of Craig Carton, and apart from an early statement, that trend continued on one of the most explosive days in WFAN history. After Carton, half of “Boomer and Carton,” was arrested on federal fraud charges, Francesa took the mic with a rarely seen muzzle over his mouth. With a...

NASA researchers say siphoning heat from the Yellowstone Caldera could lower the risk of a deadly eruption while generating electricity.

Elisabeth Moss has had quite a year. In the spring, in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” she gave uncanny immediacy to the plight of her character, Offred, who was defined — unwillingly — by her potential fertility. Moss’ quest to illuminate the narrowness of Offred’s choices and the magnitude of her rage was aided immeasurably by the... Read more »

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - The New England Patriots are set to kick off another season in the afterglow of a Super Bowl title.

Kaltes Wetter macht dich irgendwie noch verschwitzter.

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MIAMI (AP) — The Latest news related to Hurricane Irma in Florida (all times local): 4:10 p.m. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it is preparing to shut down two Florida nuclear plants that could be in the path of Hurricane Irma. Additional inspectors are on-site at the Turkey Point plant south of Miami, and the St. Lucie plant along the state's eastern coast. NRC spokesman Roger Hannah says both nuclear plants are preparing for the storm, checking to ensure any outside equipment is tied down... Читать дальше...

Rafael Nadal had about as easy a time as possible in the U.S. Open quarterfinals and beat 19-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in a little more than 1½ hours

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The nearly $300 million price tag for Louisiana's much-beloved free college tuition program is sparking continued disagreement over whether the state can continue to afford paying for thousands to attend college each year. TOPS is credited with improving high school performance and college graduation rates in a poor state that has struggled to boost education attainment. But its costs have shot up to an estimated $291 million this school year, as more students reached the... Читать дальше...

Former Paisley Park employees launch charitable foundation to support Prince’s favorite causes.

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Facebook on Wednesday said it had found evidence that fake accounts "likely operated out of Russia" bought thousands of ads during the US presidential election designed to amplify divisive political messages.

Facebook said the ads were part of elaborate "information operations" in which "organized actors," including governments, used social media to deceive the public and distort political sentiment.

The social network discovered roughly $100,000 in ad buys between June 2015 and May 2017 "associated with roughly 3... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump is ending a scheme protecting thousands of undocumented immigrants who entered the US as minors.

And don't call Pith a restaurant. It's a supper club, and you buy tickets to attend.

NEW YORK (AP) - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local):

The federal judge in charge of Senator Robert Menendez's (NJ) corruption trial told the Democrat’s lawyer to “shut up for a moment” on Wednesday.

The federal judge in charge of Senator Robert Menendez's (NJ) corruption trial told the Democrat’s lawyer to “shut up for a moment” on Wednesday.

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Younghoe Koo didn’t know much about football when he saw his new seventh-grade classmates in New Jersey playing two-hand touch during lunch recess. Koo got invited to kick off, and the South Korean-born, soccer-loving middle schooler booted the pigskin with authority. So he signed up for tackle football — and he