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Home Depot shares reverse earlier decline as investors digest earnings, outlook

Tuesday will be the 39th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, the boy from Mississippi credited with popularizing rock 'n' roll. Presley passed away on Aug. 16, 1977 of heart failure. He was 42.

The U.S. government should force big, privately held companies to disclose financial records, writes Nemit Shroff.

The U.S. government should force big, privately held companies to disclose financial records, writes Nemit Shroff.

The U.S. government should force big, privately held companies to disclose financial records, writes Nemit Shroff.

Key changes under the agreement include a defined contribution pension plan for new employees represented by the Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association

Even more communities in Louisiana are on alert for rising water as the area experiences some of the worst flooding in the U.S. since Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. A Reuters witness at the scene of the attack in the Abs district of Hajja province said medics could not immediately evacuate the wounded because war planes continued to fly over the area and emergency workers feared more bombings.

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Ben Whishaw is reportedly in talks to join the cast of the forthcoming Mary Poppins film.

Barely few weeks after an embarrassing video of her being stripped and flogged circulated on social media, the fortune of 15-year-old orphan Uzoamaka Chukwu, has changed for the better. Earlier, 15-year-old orphan Uzoamaka Chukwu, was stripped and flogged while being filmed by people who claimed to have caught her having sex. After details emerged that […]

The Sayisi Dene were relocated partly because the Manitoba government believed they were causing a steep decline in the caribou herd – an idea later proven untrue

An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is under fire for selling merchandise mimicking the Black Lives Matter movement. Pasiano’s in Albuquerque made headlines in July when the restaurant faced social media outrage for a billboard sign that read “Black Olives Matter, Try Our Tapenade” parodying the Black Lives Matter movement.

The U.S. stock market currently is more overvalued than it was at almost every bull market peak over the past 100 years, writes Mark Hulbert.

David Cay Johnston’s unblinking portrait shows Trump would be a disaster in the Oval Office

Among hundreds of pages of university emails related to campus unrest last fall, including the resignations of President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, the university's News Bureau included Facebook postings from the Forum for Graduate Rights page and from Connor Lewis, co-chairman of the Coalition of Graduate Workers. Mary Jo Banken, director of the News Bureau, said the Facebook postings were added to a collection of news articles and that their inclusion doesn't mean the bureau is spying on graduate students. Читать дальше...

As many as 30,000 people have been rescued following unprecedented floods in the southern US state of Louisiana, including a 78-year-old woman who spent a night stranded in a tree, police said late Monday. "Our state is currently experiencing a historic flooding event that is breaking every record," Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said in a statement late Monday. Police said the Louisiana National Guard would assist evacuees in the massive shelters, which included a film studio complex in... Читать дальше...

Investors who put too much faith into a fund manager’s ability are headed for disappointment, writes Chuck Jaffe.

Investors who put too much faith into a fund manager’s ability are headed for disappointment, writes Chuck Jaffe.

Isam Gurung took a huge leap by leaving a school for deaf children. But he landed on a very special friendship.

Canberra drivers convicted for drink-driving are most likely to be punished with a $750 fine, ACT government figures show.

More than 100 posters calling for the forced deportation of foreign Pokemon characters have sprung up across London. Confused fans can rest assured, it's all part of a parody campaign to highlight the fate of EU nationals in the UK.

Abhinav Bindra, India's only gold medalist in an individual event at Olympics, took to Twitter on Tuesday to give a brief answer as to why do Indian athletes struggle badly to win medals at Olympics.