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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said in congressional testimony Wednesday that an interest rate increase in December would be a “live possibility” if the economy stays on track. At its Dec. 15-16 meeting, the Fed will consider raising a key interest rate from a record low near zero if the economy continues to grow at a strong enough pace to keep adding jobs and push annual inflation toward the Fed’s 2 percent target, Yellen said. While Yellen acknowledged progress in making the financial system more resilient to shocks... Читать дальше...

Experts claim that the growing balance of evidence suggests that the Russian Metrojet airliner that crashed in the Sinai desert was destroyed by a Lockerbie-style bomb planted onboard.

All was apparently well with Dodgers’ utility man extraordinaire Enrique Hernandez after he underwent his somewhat surprising shoulder surgery Wednesday.

Slamming BJP MP Yogi Adityanath's tirade against Shah Rukh Khan, Union minister M Venkiah Naidu said the party also does not approve of the comments against the Bollywood badshah.

After a lot of back and forth brouhaha with David Lynch and Showtime, “Twin Peaks” is back and currently shooting in Washington State. The new cast includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Knepper, Balthazar Getty and Amanda Seyfried with Lynch potentially eyeing his “Mulholland Drive” star Naomi Watts. Of the returning cast? Apparently only Kyle MacLachlan as FBI agent Dale Cooper is officially confirmed by Showtime, but original cast members like Sheryl Lee, David Patrick Kelly, and Richard Beymer... Читать дальше...

The Brazilian midfielder moved back to Italian football at the start of the 2015-16 season and revealed that he accepted a reduction in wages to leave Turkey

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched a new era in Canada federal politics Wednesday as his majority Liberal government took office and a cabinet of political veterans and rookie MPs was sworn in. Trudeau appointed 30 members to his cabinet, half of them women. Eighteen of the newly minted ministers are rookies who won election for the first […]

If you can get downtown to the Million Dollar Theatre on Thursday night, you can participate in a splendid event that will help to fund a rebirth of the legendary Angels Flight funicular railway and will screen a little-seen classic Los Angeles noir.

NAPA, California - A California man went to an emergency room with a terrible headache and nausea, slipped into a coma, and was told a tapeworm larva had been living in his brain when he woke up.

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — A California man went to an emergency room with a terrible headache and nausea, slipped into a coma, and was told a tapeworm larva had been living in his brain when he woke up.

(AP) — A California man went to an emergency room with a terrible headache and nausea, slipped into a coma, and was told a tapeworm larva had been living in his brain when he woke up. College student Luis Ortiz, 26, of Napa said doctors told him he needed immediate surgery to remove it. The worm was forming in a cyst that was blocking the flow of water to chambers in his brain, "like a cork in a bottle," Singel told the Napa Valley Register (http://bit.ly/1RQzfHc ). The U.S. Centers for Disease... Читать дальше...

Maggi is finally set to hit the shelves this month. Swiss food giant Nestle India said on Wednesday all samples of its instant noodles have been cleared by accredited laboratories mandated by the Bombay High Court.

The new IAAF President told us he would make things different and wipe away the scourge of drugs and suspicion for all time. Well, we’re still waiting for a sign

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A man called a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of an 11-year-old boy will remain in custody on unrelated child pornography charges, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Bite1023_WholeThe Whole Beast’s stall in The Hall on Market Street. Photo: John Storey/Special to The Chronicle 2014 John Fink, owner of The Whole Beast, knows how to keep busy. In addition to operating his food stall at The Hall on Market Street — where he serves up burgers, smoked lamb gyros and poutine — Fink recently opened the Whole Beast seafood bar, located right next to his Market Street stall. It’s a move that Fink feels brings him full circle career-wise.  The chef put himself through college working as a commercial fisherman... Читать дальше...

For Nestle’s Maggi noodles, the test results of 13 samples, which are likely to be out in the next 2-3 weeks, would be crucial to put all controversies surrounding health concerns to rest.

Formation 8, a firm that raised two large venture funds in quick succession, won't be raising a third fund, with the general partners going in different directions in the future, according to Mr. Lonsdale.

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Authorities in southern Minnesota are treating the death of a 16-year-old girl whose body was found in a field as suspicious.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the Republican Party's rising young stars — House Speaker Paul Ryan and presidential hopeful Marco Rubio — made similar calculations on the way to political advancemen…

[...] in a campaign season where Donald Trump's incendiary rhetoric has seemed to drive the debate, they renew questions about whether Washington will ever be able to come up with a solution for the nation's dysfunctional immigration system. Rubio, in campaigning for president, has repeatedly sworn off the bipartisan Senate immigration bill he co-authored two years ago, and he is now rising in the polls. Passing comprehensive reform during his presidency would merely render it meaningless, the... Читать дальше...

MUNCIE, Indiana - A judge has sentenced a Muncie man to 81 years in prison for trying to kill one police officer and severely beating another.

Three British Columbians will play senior roles in Justin Trudeau’s new Liberal government.