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Star Tribune reporter Sharyn Jackson went to Paisley Park on Saturday, April 17, 2016, in the hopes of seeing Prince. She did.

Prince, one of America's most influential and enigmatic rock musicians, has died, his publicist told NBC News.

Univision will take control of Fusion after a deal to buy out ABC from the millennial-focused cable network and website, the companies said Thursday.

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GOP leaders have rejected a rule change at the party's upcoming national convention to make it harder for to choose a new candidate.

Like many Vox.com staffers, I live in the District of Columbia. Meaning that even though the laws of the United States of America apply to me, I don't get represented in the Congress where those laws are written. The editorial board of the Washington Post is quite a bit more conservative than I am, but many of its members also live in DC, as do many of its readers, and most of us feel that this is pretty unfair.

Zoologist Sam Trull trains orphaned sloths in Costa Rica how to be wild.

Flume has officially dropped his new song “Say It” featuring Tove Lo and you can stream it now right here! The track is available once you pre-order the 24-year-old Australian producer’s upcoming second studio album Skin, which is set to hit stores on May 27. “So fu*kin excited to share ear-space with my favorite @flumemusic [...]

Buster Posey has the day off Thursday, a day game after a night game. Manager Bruce Bochy said Posey could use a break and that there’s no need wearing out his catcher in April. Giants lineup: CF Span, 2B Panik, RF Pence, 1B Belt, SS Crawford, LF Pagan, 3B Duffy, C Brown, RH Cueto. John Shea is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

“It’s so raw and honest to the relationships and couples, it almost makes you cringe that you can see yourself in it...It’s those little moments that we’ve all been through.” This isn't a quote describing writer-director Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s drama, but it might as well be. Instead, it’s from a character describing the unseen film-within-a-film of Henry (Ben Feldman), who has been with Dianne (Olivia Thirlby) for the better part of a decade. "Between Us," which details the struggles of long-term... Читать дальше...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with David Armstrong, senior enterprise reporter for the online health news site STAT, about the deadly opioid Fentanyl, and how it's being shipped into the U.S. and Canada from China in powder form, and pressed into pills that are sold on the street.

Iconic performer Prince died Thursday at his Paisley Park residence in Minnesota. He was 57.

President Obama wraps up his visit to Saudi Arabia with a meeting of Gulf leaders to talk about the threat of ISIS. It follows a meeting between Obama and Saudi's King Salman amid tensions in the U.S.-Saudi relationship.

Democrats hope to regain the Senate this fall. But to do that, they'll need to win in states like Pennsylvania, where a raucous Democratic primary could weaken the party's chances.

Longtime GOP political figures in Michigan are on opposing sides of a fight over who gets to represent the U.S. Virgin Islands at the Republican Convention this summer. Detroit News reporter Chad Livengood tells NPR's Robert Siegel about the players and why the Virgin Islands delegation may prove to be very important.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Bissan Fakih, a senior campaigner with the Syria Campaign, about what life is like in Syria these days as a ceasefire breaks down.

Drug traffickers are making their own Fentanyl, a powerful opioid pain medication used for extreme medical conditions, and selling it mixed with or instead of heroin. Much cheaper to make than heroin, and exponentially more potent, it's easier for users to overdose on Fentanyl. In New Orleans, Fentanyl deaths now outpace the murder rate.

After months of negotiations, Volkswagen has reached a deal with U.S. authorities on most of the cars involved in its diesel emissions scandal. The agreement covers nearly 500,000 2-liter engine cars. Owners will get to choose between having VW buy back their vehicles or having their cars fixed. But owners still don't know how much VW will offer in the buyback, or what the terms of a fix will be.

Journalist Michael Kinsley was diagnosed when he was in his 40s. Now in his 60s, he says he feels like he's "a scout for his generation." His new book is Old Age: A Beginner's Guide.

Renowned musician Prince died at his home in Minneapolis Thursday at the age of 57. NPR has this remembrance.

AMD shares rally 20% as results, outlook beat expectations

Three men have reportedly robbed and defiled an 81-year-old woman known as Madam Martha. They broke  into her single room apartment in New Akrofuom an Ashanti region in Ghana. According to Breaking Times, the old woman experienced excruciating pain and bled profusely after the assault. Narrating her ordeal to people who gathered around to sympathize […]

A court in Truro, Cornwall has sentenced a fake student to jail for defrauding her parents out of £250,000 for a pretend degree course at an elite UK university. Nicola Boardman spent the money her parents gave for her education on drugs, weddings and holidays while maintaining a pretense of studying for exams. Devon and Cornwall Police The Week reports: Nicola Boardman, aged 34, told her parents, Frank and Marilyn, that she needed the money for research projects, rent and travel while studying towards... Читать дальше...

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Google parent company Alphabet has added nearly 9,000 employees to its payroll over the past year. 

The company finished Q1 with a headcount of 64,115 employees, according to its earnings report. That compares to 55,419 employees in the year-ago period. And it's up a couple thousand from the 61,814 that Alphabet had just a few months ago, at the end of 2015. 

Alphabet is one of the internet industry's most dominant companies, generating $20.3 billion in the first quarter. Читать дальше...

SEATTLE _ Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $575.1 million.