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Two weeks remain in the NFL regular season. But while most of the postseason spots remain open, odds makers were appearing pretty confident when it comes to who exactly will square off in Super Bowl LI in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017: the New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys. The latest odds show the AFC’s Patriots and the NFC’s Cowboys as the strongest possible pairing for the NFL’s championship game, with the Seattle Seahawks standing as Dallas’ main rival and the Pittsburgh Steelers New England’s.

The Nigerian army announced its plans to establish cattle ranches in its divisions, according to Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, the chief of army staff.

By Rob O’Connor Rock and roll is the "People's Music," so in honor of this week's 2017 inductees announcement , I thought it would be nice to ask a handful of "people" which acts they believe should be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Besides, my doctor and I enjoy talking about these matters. He says it helps with my treatment. I asked a variety of people, but mostly rock writers wrote back. (As if making a list requires anyone to write!) I didn't solicit comments, since I didn't want... Читать дальше...

By Rob O’Connor

Rock and roll is the "People's Music," so in honor of this week's 2017 inductees announcement, I thought it would be nice to ask a handful of "people" which acts they believe should be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Besides, my doctor and I enjoy talking about these matters. He says it helps with my treatment.

I asked a variety of people, but mostly rock writers wrote back. (As if making a list requires anyone to write!) I didn't solicit comments, since... Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — Forget ordering online weeks in advance or dashing out to the drug store for a gift card on Christmas Eve. Procrastinating holiday shoppers are finding a haven online as retailers ramp up expedited shipping and same-day delivery services. Far from discouraging last-minute online shoppers, retailers are actually courting them. Clothing retailer Madewell proclaims on its website that "procrastinators get the best deals" — 25 percent off everything, with orders as late as noon Thursday for holiday deliveries. Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — Forget ordering online weeks in advance or dashing out to the drug store for a gift card on Christmas Eve. Procrastinating holiday shoppers are finding a haven online as retailers ramp up expedited shipping and same-day delivery services. Far from discouraging last-minute online shoppers, retailers are actually courting them. Clothing retailer Madewell proclaims on its website that "procrastinators get the best deals" — 25 percent off everything, with orders as late as noon Thursday for holiday deliveries. Читать дальше...

At a time when the Panthers are thinking about the future of their star linebacker, there’s also the matter of the star linebacker who was there seven years before Luke Kuechly walked in the door. And while Thomas Davis is used to hearing people wonder if he’s ready to retire, he’s not ready to join…

Groundbreaking was set for Tuesday at a capped landfill on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Officials say the solar power project is the largest in the military in the Northeastern U.S.

Kentucky men's basketball coach had some fun on Tuesday with some recent criticism directed his way.

Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com thinks the financials have more room to run, so he looks at a trade in Citigroup.

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Matthew McConaughey, who played Rust Cohle on "True Detective" Season 1, revealed he "wouldn't hesitate" to return to the HBO series if it "was written well."

A Syngenta plant in Huddersfield, England, that produces a weed killer exported for sale.

People’s City Mission will host a memorial service at 7 p.m. Wednesday to commemorate the lives of homeless people in Lincoln who died this year.

Treasury prices soften Tuesday, pushing yields higher, a day after the U.S. sovereign-debt market notched its strongest one-day gain since August following deadly attacks in Turkey and Germany.

The propaganda of opponents of the recent liberation of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo from militants led to the murder of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, an adviser to the Iranian foreign minister, told Sputnik.

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President-elect Donald Trump met Tuesday met with candidates for his unfilled Cabinet positions, including prospective hires to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, a beleaguered agency that the Republican businessman has vowed to overhaul.

Even as stock prices bounce around, sometimes violently, dividends are actually quite predictable

The FBI told a federal court it needed a search warrant to look at thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails on the laptop of former US Representative Anthony Weiner because they had the potential to cause "grave damage to national security" if disclosed, according to court documents made public today.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials have confirmed a case of chronic wasting disease at a deer farm in Buchanan County.

Global regulators are expected to take a close look at the proposed tie-up of industrial-gas giants Praxair Inc. and Linde AG, a move that if completed would create the sector’s biggest player, with a market value of more than $66 billion.

If one time is an incident, two time is coincidence and three times is a trend, then we officially have a trend of college running backs sitting out their bowl games to stay healthy for the NFL draft. Baylor running back Shock Linwood will skip the Cactus Bowl to focus on a possible NFL career,…

A chartered flight airlifting the body of Russia's Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, who was assassinated in Ankara on Dec. 19, has landed at Vnukovo airport in Moscow.

The ambassador's widow arrived by the same flight accompanied by a physician and a psychologist dispatched by the Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense.

Illumination Entertainment, the team behind the Minions, branches out into the world of all talking-dancing-singing creatures great-and-small, mashing that up with the wildly popular phenomenon of singing competition reality shows. The result, “Sing,” is an amusing riff on genres, a “Zootopia Idol,”...