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Angry supporters of Honduran opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla blockaded some capital city streets with burning tires Monday, protesting what they contend is election fraud. Nasralla called for a nationwide strike after a partial recount of votes cast two weeks ago in Honduras' presidential election ended Sunday with conservative incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez holding a narrow lead. The winner has not yet been declared. "The truth is that we have two people with a lot of support. It's a very competitive... Читать дальше...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May hailed “a new sense of optimism” in Brexit talks, telling parliament on Monday an agreement to move negotiations on to future trade ties is progress and will reassure those concerned Britain may leave with no deal. Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at a news conference at the EC headquarters in Brussels, Belgium December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Yves HermanMay, weakened after losing her Conservatives’ majority at a June election, rescued an agreement... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department just gave Republicans ammunition that their tax cuts would pay for themselves. But the one-page memo relies on a mathematical gimmick: It includes an assumption that tax cuts and other Trump administration policies would cause the economy to expand at a 2.9 percent annual pace over 10 years. Economic growth at that level would, in theory, be enough to keep the national debt from rising. But most analyses have concluded that the Senate tax overhaul would add... Читать дальше...

US and Afghan special operations groups are preparing an offensive against Daesh strongholds in northwestern Afghanistan in an attempt to prevent the fractured militant group from continuing their expansion into Afghanistan’s northern provinces.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz was ruled out of the remainder of the season after suffering a torn cruciate ligament, coach Doug Pederson confirmed Monday.

“Ballers” will continue balling on the Golden State’s dime — as will “S.W.A.T.,” “Shooter” and “The Orville.” The Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson series just scored another cool $6.8 million from the California Film Commission’s tax credit program. That Season 4 sum is higher than the allocation for the sophomore turn of Shemar Moore’s CBS cop drama, which landed about $6 million for its next run. Both are lower than the $8.2 million earmarked for Season 3 of USA Network’s “Shooter.” Though surely no... Читать дальше...

Goal takes a look at the Premier League's counterparts and when they are scheduled for some time off during winter

The UCI on Monday confirmed that Rally Cycling will compete in the Pro Continental ranks next year, jumping from Continental status to cycling's second division. The US team, which started in 2009 as Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast, will continue to race in the US while taking on an extended international schedule.

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Do innovators have a responsibility to help workers whose livelihoods are threatened by machines?

It's been an unusual start to the offseason, with the hot stove barely smoldering through December's first week. After a brief autumn slumber, the SoxProspects.com Minor Notes returns with a recap of the events of the offseason thus far. 

According to motorcycle delivery riders, only 57 per cent of their customers would "understand" if they are running a bit late.

The gang would attack the victims with pepper spray and while they were struggling, take their money and belongings.

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With a $83.5 billion market value, Celgene Corp (NASDAQ:CELG) ranks in the top 10% of its industry group, Biotechnology, and in the top decile of sector group, Health Care, in market value. From the prospective of investment attractiveness, The current Portfolio Grader ranking for CELG puts it 183 among the 350 companies in this industry group, giving it a below-average spot; in the third quartile of the sector with a ranking... Читать дальше...

Mei Rui, along with her two-year old son and elderly parents, were stuck in travel hell Friday after airline officials said they wouldn't be allowed to board their flight due to Rui's "non-compliance" with instructions.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who has aimed to make himself a leader in the fight against global warming, is the force behind Tuesday's climate finance summit in Paris.

Overweight women suffer major discrimination in the workplace. Jobs site Fairygodboss recently carried out a survey of 500 hiring professionals, who were shown a picture of an overweight woman and asked if they’d consider employing her. Only 15.6 percent of them said that they would. Plus, one in five hiring personnel characterized the woman as “lazy,”...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Fittingly, Jack Morris reached the Hall of Fame in extra innings. Morris was elected to the Hall by its Modern Era committee on Sunday along with former Detroit Tigers teammate Alan Trammell, completing a joint journey from Motown to Cooperstown. The big-game pitcher and star shortstop were picked by a 16-man Modern Baseball Era committee that considered 10 candidates whose biggest contributions came from 1970-87. Morris got 14 votes and Trammell drew 13, one more than the minimum needed. Читать дальше...

Ansbach, Germany - A 63-year-old doctor charged with misusing his power to sexually abuse his patients apologized on Monday on the opening day of his trial in Germany's southern state of Bavaria.

A Tuesday conference on violence against women in Ireland revealed that almost 6,000 women and girls in the country have endured female genital mutilation.

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EXCLUSIVE: Seth Rogen is attached to play iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in Newsflash, a Ben Jacoby-scripted drama that Stronger director David Gordon Green will direct next year. The film takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. It was that day that television network news came of age, and Cronkite became the most trusted TV newsman voice of America, even if he wasn’t first to announce the president had died (NBC did that). Читать дальше...

The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China, at a recent meeting, did not explicitly mention terrorism emanating from Pakistan as their target despite India highlighting the issue. However, Russia’s foreign minister said at a separate gathering that his country would help Pakistan dismantle terror infrastructure in its territory.

A Nebraska Republican National Committee member submitted her resignation Monday in protest of the RNC's support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, Politico reports. Moore is accused by a number of women of having pursued — and in one case assaulted — them while they were teenagers.

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As we find ourselves exactly fifty days from President Trump's first State of the Union Address, we have the opportunity to shape the economic policy of this country and the world for at least the next fifty years. These next few weeks should be seen as the timeline to bring into coherence a policy perspective along the lines of Lyndon LaRouche's "Four Hamiltonian Economic Laws" and place this at the core of the President's address to Congress. With President Trump's... Читать дальше...