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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Unemployment dropped in most of Wisconsin's largest cities and counties in August.

The U.S. Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but strongly signalled it could still tighten monetary policy by the end of this year as the labour market improved further.

Brown Harris Stevens

If you want to live like a king, it just got a little easier. An enormous and opulent Upper East Side duplex once owned by the late "King of Wall Street" John Gutfreund (who died earlier this year), has just been discounted to $96 million, after listing for $120 million six months ago.

Even with the new price, it's still the most expensive listing in New York City, according to Curbed. One possible reason why it's still on the market is that the building's co-op board does not accept financing... Читать дальше...

Even as patients reporting fever continue to flow in, a notice has come up in the district hospital enumerating two conditions for patients suffering with fever to be admitted to the hospital.

In August, Mary Thomaston, a hair stylist in Florida, colored her daughter’s hair to look like “unicorn hair,” or rainbow hair. Her daughter loved it. Complete strangers on the Internet did not. 

German political scientist Alexander Rahr, well-known in Russia for his insights into relations between Russia and the West, believes that the world is set for an immense transformation in the next twenty years, creating three main global power blocs: Transatlantic, Euro-Asian and broad Middle Eastern.

The Fed's decision not to hike rates this month shouldn't be interpreted as a lack of confidence in the economy, Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday.

Put another way, just 3 percent of American adults own the vast majority of guns nationwide. Of all 55 million gun owners, an estimated half own either one or two guns. "Super-owners" are dedicated collectors, firearms instructors, gunsmiths or competitive shooters, while others are survivalists who stockpile guns in case of emergency, the Guardian reported.

NEW YORK — It began with the constant and compulsive pressure to sell. Then came stress-induced health problems. Wells Fargo employees, both current and former, say they spent every day frantically trying to persuade customers to open more accounts — not for any bonuses, but simply to keep their jobs. Even in an industry known

A subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Jigsaw, is using machine learning to fend off online trolling, reports Wired. The New York–based think tank is building open-source AI tools, collectively called Conversation AI, to filter out harassment and abusive language.

After last football season ended, Omaha North coach Larry Martin was talking with junior running back Milton Sargbah about the upcoming season.

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ricky Olson, 58, Gays Mills, was sentenced Sept. 20 by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 15 years in federal prison, to be followed by…

NEW YORK (AP) — It began with the constant and compulsive pressure to sell. Then came stress-induced health problems. Wells Fargo employees, both current and former, say they spent every day frantically trying to persuade customers to open more accounts…

NEW YORK (AP) — It began with the constant and compulsive pressure to sell. Then came stress-induced health problems. Wells Fargo employees, both current and former, say they spent every day frantically trying to persuade customers to open more accounts…

BP, Lukoil and Shell are finding the once bright promises of Iraq’s oil-production growth increasingly are uncertain because of weak pricing and political turmoil.

Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay News
New guidelines issued by three leading cancer organizations suggest that more breast cancer patients should consider radiation therapy after a mastectomy.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin may be a battleground state, if the polls are to be believed, but Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aren't treating it like one.

Travis Hornsby

Early in our relationship, my girlfriend let me know she had $124,000 in medical school loans.

I never had to deal with student loans myself, as I had an undergraduate scholarship and did not have to go to graduate school.

While helping her navigate through a myriad of options, I realized that choosing the right student loan repayment plan is confusing and complex.

There was some information out there to help with the process, such as student loan repayment calculators... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK - Thirty-one countries formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate change on Wednesday, surpassing ...

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