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During NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg's recent visit to Poland, Polish Minister of Defense Antoni Macierewicz announced that NATO would station four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on a rotating basis, Newsday reports.

The late-stage investment from Saudi Arabia brings more security to the company than to the kingdom

The late-stage investment from Saudi Arabia brings more security to the company than to the kingdom

UCLA shooting live updates: 2 dead in murder-suicide, note found June 1, 2016, 1:59 p.m. What we know so far: Two people were killed in a murder-suicide in an engineering building at UCLA on Wednesday morning, Los Angeles police say. Both were male. A law enforcement official told The Los Angeles...

Daniel L. Davis

Security, Middle East

A Five-Step Plan to End America's Fruitless Fight in Afghanistan.

Since the tragic events of  September 11th, a core tenet of U.S. engagement with the rest of the world has been deploying military force against terrorists abroad and denying them territory from which to launch new attacks. Considerable data is now piling up that proves these nonstop military actions have not squelched the terrorist threat, but have increased risk to the United States. Читать дальше...

When the Los Angeles Conservancy’s “Last Remaining Seats” film series debuted on July 15, 1987, at the Orpheum with Buster Keaton’s silent movie “Steamboat Bill, Jr.,” who knew it would still be going strong all these years later?

A federal judge refused Wednesday to reopen voter registration in California ahead of next week’s presidential primary, telling a group led by backers of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that the rights of the state’s unaffiliated voters have not been harmed.

Consumer companies were among the big gainers on a day when investors sized up a mixed bag of new data on the U.S. manufacturing, housing and automobile industries. Investors have been looking for clues in the latest economic figures to gauge the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will raise its key interest rate at the central bank's next meeting of policymakers later this month. The major stock indexes opened lower on Wednesday, echoing a slide in markets in Europe and Asia as traders considered new reports on China's manufacturing sector... Читать дальше...

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Arsenal target Alvaro Morata and Nolito each scored twice in Spain’s 6-1 rout of South Korea in a pre-Euro 2016 friendly.

Rock This Boat, the Pop TV reality series chronicling the annual New Kids on the Block fan cruise, returns for season 2 on Wednesday night (June 1)...

The mystery that for weeks unnerved a quiet Capitol Hill neighborhood began with a warning placed on a nanny's windshield.

John Hennessy, one of Silicon Valley’s most connected and successful businessmen, has ended his 16 years as President of Stanford University and nearly 40 years on the faculty.

The seeds of a gap year abroad -- the British tradition of spending time far from home -- were sown when I was 22 and studying in France's Loire Valley. It was 1979, and my time abroad ignited a love affair with France and a wanderlust that compelled me to travel the continent. However, I yearned to share my experiences with Joe, the high school sweetheart I would later marry. I promised myself I would return to Europe for an encore year when I was older and wiser, this time with my partner beside me. Читать дальше...

Are you a Swanson or a Knope? Choose your favorite emoji and find out.

Once is too much. Twice is implausible.

That’s what television producer Mary Zilba thought Wednesday morning when she heard about the shooting at UCLA. 

Zilba was one of the parents of UCLA students who watched in fear on television as their children’s school became the scene of yet another shooting...

The president went back to the Indiana town to highlight its economic rebound. Since he first visited in early 2009, the unemployment rate has plunged from about 19 percent to around 4 percent.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of Venezuelans rallied in support of President Nicolas Maduro as regional governments seemed to back away from a threat to punish his administration for violating its commitment to democracy.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel will remain a director of Facebook Inc. despite his providing the funding for lawsuits against Gawker Media, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday.

Rory McIlroy says his concerns that the Zika virus in Brazil could threaten his Olympic participation have eased.

At least 10 people including two lawmakers were killed Wednesday in an attack targeting a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, local media reported.

John Carney is regretting some not-so-nice remarks he made about Keira Knightley, and now he's trying to make amends. The Begin Again director penned an apology, which was...

"He's dragging my son! I can't watch this! I can't watch! I can't watch!" the woman screams in audio of 911 calls released Wednesday.

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Beginning June 6, PayPal will cease operations in Turkey because of the firm’s inability to get a new license from BDDK, a major Turkish financial regulator, according to TechCrunch.

PayPal couldn’t obtain the license because of a new Turkish policy that requires IT systems to be housed within the country — a policy that PayPal, which has data centers across the globe... Читать дальше...

Vikings running back Jerick McKinnon is entering his third season and hopes to carry over last season's momentum into offseason training and the 2016 campaign.