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Veteran-owned businesses would get a 15 percent preference on bidding for state contracts under legislation that was unanimously approved Wednesday in the state Senate.

A new position of Public Safety Auditor will be created, the mayor's office said in a news release, and there would be a role for citizen oversight in police misconduct cases. "Real leadership and courage means doing what needs to be done right now to earn the trust of the community... to save the reputation and future effectiveness of this police force," said Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law school professor who played a key role in forcing the city to release the McDonald video. Speeding... Читать дальше...

US president speaks of Baghdad crisis and Syria ceasefire at end of Saudi trip

A British court has overturned the rape conviction of former Premier League player Ched Evans and ordered a new trial.

KUWAIT CITY - U.N.-backed peace talks between Yemen's warring sides began in Kuwait on Thursday evening in an effort to end the impoverished country's year-long conflict that has killed nearly 9,000 people - a third of them civilians, according to the United Nations.

LEICESTER, England - Leicester striker Jamie Vardy accepted an English Football Association improper conduct charge on Thursday over his reaction to being sent off against West Ham.

Kurdish militias and President Bashar al-Assad’s forces tend to avoid clashes, but skirmished Thursday in the de facto Kurdish autonomous region.

Britain's longest-reigning monarch shows no sign of slowing down, but what makes her tick? We ask her cousin and confidant

A sampling of the musician's mix of rock, soul and funk throughout the last four decades.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - A transgender high school student joined a lawsuit Thursday challenging a law that limits protections for LGBT people, just days after a federal appeals court sided with a transgender student in a Virginia case.

PARIS - French carmaker Renault says its revenue rose 11.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, mainly thanks to the recovery of the European market.

PARIS (AP) — French carmaker Renault says its revenue rose 11.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, mainly thanks to the recovery of the European market.

PARIS (AP) — French carmaker Renault says its revenue rose 11.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, mainly thanks to the recovery of the European market.

PARIS (AP) — French carmaker Renault says its revenue rose 11.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, mainly thanks to the recovery of the European market. The company said Thursday that revenue hit 10.49 billion euros ($11.91 billion). Registrations reached 692,453 globally, a rise of 7.3 percent, which Renault said beat the world market growth of 1.5 percent. New models including the Espace, Kadjar and Talisman helped its business in Europe, which offset declines in struggling economies like Russia and Brazil. Читать дальше...

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LONGVIEW, Texas, April 21 (UPI) -- Police in Texas said a man accused of stealing steaks from Walmart led officers on a high-speed chase and struck a police car with meat tossed from his window.

Yaman Akdeniz professor from Turkish Bilgi University spoke to Sputnik in an interview about how the censorship against Sputnik News Agency continues after the judge dismissed his appeal.

– The world has lost a legend – The legendary musician, Prince has passed on – He was found dead at his party mansion and recording studio in Minneapolis Reports suggest that the legendary musician, Prince has been confirmed dead. The crooner who brought the world countless hits, such as “Purple Rain” and “When Doves […]

Survey shows opportunities to create jobs are already ‘in danger of being lost’

Richard Tomkins
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 21 (UPI) -- The Sikorsky CH-53K has lifted a 12,000-pound external payload in the first of a series of payload capability tests.

A shallow magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Thursday morning one mile from Imperial, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 11:14 a.m. PDT at a depth of 8.7 miles.

Unbeaten for the first three games, the new team from Rajkot crash landed at their own den after suffering a 10-wicket defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad.

NEW YORK - Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill Thursday to regulate where and how costumed characters like Spider-Man and Elmo operate in Times Square and to curtail any aggressive behavior.

Just in time for New Orleans Jazz Fest, a guide to one of the city’s most celebrated dishes—a supersized Italian hero

Presidential campaign staff come and go; it's the nature of the operative's grueling lifestyle. But last week's suspension of Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sanders's Jewish outreach coordinator, was very, very different. For one thing, she was only at the job for two days. Her "suspension" wasn't about burnout; it was the result of a controversy that tapped into a much larger debate over nature of the Sanders campaign and the future of the American Jewish community's approach to Israel.