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With Donald Trump pitching a new “ideological test” for immigrants, he is being called out to take the U.S. naturalization test first.

The Perth Wildcats have finalised their roster for the upcoming NBL season announcing the re-signing of Shawn Redhage.

The state's attorney general was convicted Monday of all nine counts in a perjury and obstruction case related to a grand jury leak.

Long before Milwaukee’s Sherman Park erupted in protests and violence after a fatal police shooting, it was a community in economic decline, residents said.

More cuts will be made to services for athletes at the Paralympics next month unless additional funding is rapidly secured for the cash-strapped games in Rio de Janeiro, officials said Monday.

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces continued to fight Islamic State militants Monday outside of Mosul, Iraq, the Associated Press reported. Photo: AP

Jill Boldenow has years of experience in the St. Paul and university library systems.

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I try to be a long-term thinker and filter out all the short-term noise. That’s hard nowadays, because there is so much short-term noise!

Any one of these four things would be big news, especially in the dog days of summer. But all four?  It’s crazy out there.

I can’t stay focused. I can’t resist the temptation to dive into the short-term stuff. So here we go. Put your boots on.

Canada’s housing bubble

Vancouver housing prices are up 32 freaking percent from last July... Читать дальше...

The NFL is still seeking an audience with the four linebackers it’s investigating for an alleged link to performance-enhancing drugs. The league’s latest message to James Harrison, Clay Matthews, Mike Neal and Julius Peppers came with an ominous and onerous threat: Answer our questions in the next 10 days, or start your suspension. NFL senior

The transfer of 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans to the UAE comes amid a renewed push to whittle down the number of detainees held.

In February, it became clear that quarterback Colin Kaepernick wanted out of San Francisco. In March, a trade to Denver nearly happened. The calendar now says August, and it’s hardly a certainty that Kaepernick will be a member of the 49ers in 2016 or, if he is, that he’ll actually play. Kaepernick continues to be…

Brazil's Joao Vitor de Oliveira executes a Superman-style dive in his heat of the 110m hurdles to qualify for the semi-finals.

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French sprinter Wilhem Belocian was disqualified from the 110-meter hurdles on Monday night in Rio after he false-started just before the gun. 

It's a brutal twist of fate for Belocian, who trained for four years exclusively for the Olympic 110-meter hurdles, only to bow out from Rio entirely, even before he finished one single race. 

Belocian's disqualification on Monday night is also an example of track and field's cruelest rule: that one false-start... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shootings of a New York City mosque leader and his associate (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shootings of a New York City mosque leader and his associate (all times local):

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The cable network has pulled the plug on “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” after poor ratings. Meanwhile, Trevor Noah’s “The Daily Show” also has lost substantial viewership.

“I still live at home.”

When your friend is telling you a ghost story:

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When you sincerely believed middle school was hard:

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When the interviewer asks you: What made you interested in our company?

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And when they ask you: Where do you see yourself in five years? Читать дальше...

Middelbare scholen doen te weinig met het ziekteverzuim van leerlingen. Daardoor blijven klachten onopgemerkt en vallen jongeren uiteindelijk onnodig uit. Dat stelt de GGD, die met een aanpak komt waarbij ook de ouders worden betrokken.

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police commander who signed off on officer reports that the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by police was justified has retired.

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police commander who signed off on officer reports that the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by police was justified has retired.

Paul Dano looks handsome in a tie while walking around the set of his new film Okja on Saturday (August 13) in Vancouver, Canada. The 32-year-old actor got a visit from his lovely girlfriend Zoe Kazan that day. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Paul Dano The cute couple was joined on set by [...]

A teary-eyed Carrie Bickmore has thanked the Australian public after her brain cancer charity raised its target goal.