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District minister Ramesh Jarkiholi hoisted the national flag at the CPEd Ground here on the Independence Day.

The Bills released wide receiver Leonard Hankerson and added two defensive linemen on Monday. Hankerson finished the 2015 season with the Bills and re-signed with the Bills last spring. A third-round pick of the Redskins in 2011, Hankerson also spent time with the Falcons and Patriots last season. The Bills signed defensive linemen Brandon Deaderick…

The team's decision makers will all be in attendance.

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Lake County on Monday as the devastating Clayton Fire raged across thousands of acres and left at least 175 burned homes and businesses in its wake. The declaration will expedite funding for fire crews and aid workers on the ground. More than 1,600 firefighters are currently battling the blaze, which started Saturday south of the town of Lower Lake and burned through the center of the 1,300-person community a day later.

WeWork shot to a $16 billion valuation by luring an emerging class of entrepreneurs and freelancers into shared office spaces that are anything but corporate. Now, it is courting big companies, betting they will trade suburban office parks and commercial towers for its hip, urban workspaces.

At an Ohio campaign stop on Monday, Donald Trump delivered what was billed as his big policy speech on counterterrorism, in which he was supposed to explain his plans to defeat ISIS. So what were Trump’s ideas? After laying out a long laundry list of well-known terrorist outrages by ISIS, Trump said, “We cannot let […]

"I always hoped to earn India a medal on the Independence Day but I failed. I'm sorry," he said.

Imagine winning the Super Bowl and having a game two days later.

An afterthought entering the 1962 season, he won the quarterback job and engineered one of the best footballs seasons in Wisconsin history.

Quarterback Alex Hornibrook took advantage of the University of Wisconsin football team’s first scrimmage of the fall Monday.

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Following a 12-month study of eight paraplegic patients, Duke University has published results that suggest that virtual reality (VR) technology can help aid in restoring mobility in patients suffering from a chronic spinal cord injury, reports TechCrunch.

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Maybe having pros box in the Olympics isn’t such a bad idea after all. While they’re at it, they might start getting some professional judges, too. A lot of what is still wrong with Olympic boxing was exposed in the heavyweight gold medal fight Monday night, when Russia’s Evgeny Tischenko was

Drake is a Shania Twain fan! Twain showed up to Drake’s concert at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., on Sunday, Aug. 14. The Queen of Country Pop personally visited her fellow Canadian music artist backstage, where the two posed for a photo together. Happy to have the “You’re Still The One” hitmaker at his concert, Drake shared the pic on Instagram and captioned it: “My WCW (Woman Crush Wednesday) even though it's Monday. Shania.”

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he would personally like to see a woman lead the United Nations for the first time since it was established more than 70 years ago. As he nears the end of his second five-year term on Dec. 31, Ban said that “it’s high time now” for a female

The opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. It may have been the last time the event was profitable.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police looking for the gunman who shot an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque zeroed in on a man who hit a bicyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police looking for the gunman who shot an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque zeroed in on a man who hit a bicyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police looking for the gunman who shot an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque zeroed in on a man who hit a bicyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaskans will go to the polls Tuesday to help settle the general election fields for U.S. Senate and House races, and in some cases, they likely will elect members to the state Legislature.

Various educational and social organizations celebrated the 70th Independence Day with patriotic fervour.

An Oklahoma property owner says there's no racist intent behind the warning signs and nooses hanging on his property along Highway 75.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is enduring perhaps the most pronounced round of criticism in its 43 year-history, after a widely discredited decision last week to keep treating marijuana as the most dangerous drug on the planet.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Maybe having pros box in the Olympics isn't such a bad idea after all.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Maybe having pros box in the Olympics isn't such a bad idea after all.