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The Kalama City Council Wednesday agreed to ask voters to approve a small sales tax hike to pay for a new police station.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Midwest's first dangerous bout of heat and humidity this summer is partly to blame on the moisture piped out of the ground and into the atmosphere by the increasing acreage of corn crops reaching peak maturity,…

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says rival Owen Smith is offering him "a job that doesn't exist" and he would not want to be party president, should he lose the leadership.

NEW YORK — Roger Ailes is out as chief executive at Fox News Channel, his career at the network he built from scratch and ran with an iron hand for nearly 20 years over with stunning swiftness following allegations that he forced out a former anchor after she spurned his sexual advances. Network parent 21st

HBO/"Game of Thrones"

One of the many things that separates "Game of Thrones" from the rest of the crowded TV pack is that it has an original score. 

Composer Ramin Djawadi got everyone's attention for the unforgettable piano track "Light of the Seven," which played during the show's season six finale. In reality, he's been working on the show since it started. Djawadi chooses his music carefully. Different characters get their own tunes. You'll notice that the Starks and the White... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Cliff Pennington tripled and singled as the Salt Lake Bees beat the Iowa Cubs 5-4 on Thursday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Cliff Pennington tripled and singled as the Salt Lake Bees beat the Iowa Cubs 5-4 on Thursday.

UK authorities say they are searching for two people in the attempted abduction of a serviceman at a Royal Air Force base in eastern England.

Visa Inc , the world's largest payments network operator, reported a steep drop in quarterly profit, hurt by costs related to the acquisition of Visa Europe, and said it would buy back Class A shares worth $5 billion.

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The US Navy just named the first carrier-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) the MQ-25A Stingray.

The Navy has been pursuing a carrier-based drone since 2006 — first as a long-range stealthy bomber, then as a surveillance and strike craft, and finally as a flying tanker. Though air-to-air refueling is hardly a breakthrough, having a carrier-based tanker provides the Navy with a possible solution to one of their most pressing problems — anti-access area denial (A2AD). Читать дальше...

FBI cleared Clinton over emails but some voters still untrusting

Email controversy hasn’t slowed much of Clinton’s support in NC

Senate candidate Deborah Ross attending Philadelphia convention

ST. LOUIS — A proposal to open a 24-hour homeless shelter north of downtown St. Louis has unexpectedly stalled. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2ac0FtZ ) reports that the plan stalled Wednesday after city leaders debated whether nearby residents had enough time to weigh in on the proposal. Plans called for the $2.5 million Biddle House

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If you own a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, you might want to find out what company manufactured your battery. If it was made by Simplo, there’s increasing evidence that you might be in for problems very soon — and there’s no current fix.

First reported by Windows Supersite earlier this week, Simplo batteries are experiencing an unknown issue causing battery life to degrade quickly. In some cases, affected users with these batteries are only seeing 1-2 hours of battery life. Читать дальше...

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc reported a bigger-than-expected drop in quarterly comparable restaurant sales as demand continued to be hurt by a spate of food-borne illnesses linked to its outlets.

Rapper 50 Cent was forced to lower the price of his mansion once again, this time to $6 million. He will pay $23.4 million to creditors over the next five years.

American Airlines reported fluid was leaking from the aircraft at the Palm Beach International Airport, according to WPBF news.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares advanced in Thursday's extended session after the chip maker turned in a narrower-than-expected loss on a non-GAAP basis. AMD reported it swung to second-quarter earnings of $69 million, or 8 cents a share, from a loss of $181 million, or 23 cents a share, a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, the company would have lost 5 cents a share. Revenue rose to $1.03 billion from $942 million. Analysts had forecast an adjusted loss of 9 cents a share on revenue of $951 million, according to a FactSet survey. Читать дальше...

Qualcomm’s stock soars to its best one-day gain in nearly five years, as a host of analysts raised their price targets in the wake of the mobile-chip maker’s better-than-expected quarterly results.

While gay conversion therapy for minors has been banned in five states and in Washington, D.C., backing for the practice is alive and well, with gay rights advocates accusing Republicans of endorsing the idea at their party’s national convention in Cleveland. Gregory Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest GOP organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conservatives, said he was “mad as hell” over the platform, calling gay conversion therapy a debunked psychological... Читать дальше...

Although most of Billy Joel’s biggest hits date back a few decades, you wouldn’t know it from the fans that filled his 33rd sold-out...

Leo Drozdoff, director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, is retiring after more than ...

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MCLEAN, Va. (AP) _ Capital One Financial Corp. (COF) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $942 million.

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) _ Capital One Financial Corp. (COF) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $942 million.