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University Ventures Managing Director Daniel Pianko on how the Obama administration created the next financial crisis. Photo credit: Getty Images.

Reputational damage looms as firm’s US arm says it was duped by ‘dedicated’ gang

Reputational damage looms as firm’s US arm says it was duped by ‘dedicated’ gang

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US State Secretary John Kerry discussed the situation in Syria by phone with a focus on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Young Thug sat down with Travi$ Scott on Beats 1 to clarify exactly why he's changing his name.

Who wants to go through the Murder House? Anyone?

Hey, so you know how American Horror Story is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING?!?!

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Well, this year you'll be able to live out the show yourself when it comes to Universal Studios.

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Yes, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios has a new set of scary mazes this year, and they're AHS-themed.

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Sean Hannity often describes himself as an "originalist" in the Antonin Scalia mode, but what he really is a propaganda warrior of the Republican party.

Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the ruling ANC for failing to deliver on its promises, four years after police killed 34 striking miners at Marikana in a massacre that shocked the world.

A film’s characters have to look the part in order for the story to be believable, meaning costume designer Deborah Cook really had her work cut out for her with “Kubo and the Two Strings,” the animated action-adventure film set in ancient Japan.

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Microsoft just announced Xbox Wireless — a new standard that will let you use Xbox One accessories on Windows 10 computers, too.

Microsoft has already been inching towards this announcement, which finally happened Tuesday.

The new Xbox One S console ships with a refined controller that supports Bluetooth, so it can connect to PCs and Android tablets just as easily as it can to the Xbox One console itself. Plus, Microsoft offers a $20 USB adapter to wirelessly connect an Xbox One controller to Windows 10. Читать дальше...

Author Abby Schachter on her new book,“No Child Left Alone,” and federal interference in the parenting process.

Twitter is increasingly looking to sports as a way to attract more users. Talks of a deal between Twitter and Apple to get Twitter on Apple TV show that Twitter's relationships with the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball have some value.

SEYMOUR, Ind. — Indiana State Police say a southern Indiana policeman shot and wounded an 80-year-old man who pointed a rifle at officers. Sgt. Stephen Wheeles says 80-year-old Alvin Otte was treated at a hospital for a non-life-threatening injury following the shooting early Tuesday. He says Otte remains at the hospital for a mental health

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GHENT, Belgium, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A new vocabulary test suggests native English-speaking Americans know an average of at least 42,000 words by the time they turn 20 years old.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Officials say a Catholic homeless shelter in Iowa City has filled up a month after opening. The three-bedroom Catholic Worker House provides up to 30 days of shelter to those in need, The Iowa City Press-Citizen (http://icp-c.com/2aXzCpY ) reports. David Goodner, a live-in volunteer, officially opened the facility with the help

Google is pulling another lever on its influential search engine in an effort to boost voter turnout in November's U.S. presidential …

If you're going to think about an ex, Felice Cohen says, at least use those feelings to help you get organized.

Bay Area arts and entertainment picks, Aug. 17 Rep. John Lewis, along with his co-creators Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, talk about Lewis’ best-selling graphic novels about the civil rights movement. 5:30 p.m. University of San Francisco McLaren Complex. www.eventbrite.com William Sauerland conducts sing-along performances of music by Purcell and Schubert. 7 p.m. Museum of Children’s Arts, 1625 Clay St., Oakland. www.oaklandsymphony.org The avant-garde cellist premieres composer David Lang’s “The... Читать дальше...

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers' linebacker James Harrison doesn't want to face a suspension. He is also not interested in talking to NFL representatives right now, either.

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers' linebacker James Harrison doesn't want to face a suspension. He is also not interested in talking to NFL representatives right now, either.

The ability to choose a mate for egg fertilization was thought to be limited to species with internal fertilization. But new research on the ocellated wrasse suggests that the female fish can influence which sperm fertilizes her eggs even when they are spawned externally and stop "sneaky male" freeloaders. Photo: Suzanne Alonzo

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What do you call a typewriter with no keys? Though it sounds like a riddle, Stanford historian Tom Mullaney told BuzzFeed News, it’s not. A Chinese typewriter has 2,500 characters but zero keys, and Mullaney owns more of them than anyone else in the world.

The Chinese language has over 75,000 characters — way too many to fit on a keyboard with a single key per character. The inventor of the original Chinese typewriter slimmed that number down to just the 2,500 most used characters... Читать дальше...

Queen of bird noises.

Vogue's latest installment of "73 Questions" features the love of my life, Kendall Jenner. In it we learn a few things.

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Such as, her nickname for Gigi is "Wigi."

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Her spirit animal is Tupac Shakur.

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Only she knows that Kim can do almost anything with her toes...

Certain Olympians are known no so much for their athletic feats as for what they were wearing while they achieved them. Check out the Man With the Golden Shoes (Michael Jordan), the superlong nails (Gail Devers) and the skin-tight buttercup running outfit (Florence Griffith-Joyner).