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Russia's largest bank and digital innovation front-runner Sberbank will create a 50/50 joint venture with internet major Mail.ru Group in the field of transportation and food delivery.

Joyful salsa dancing replaced angry protests in the streets of San Juan Thursday as Puerto Ricans celebrated the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a scandal over insulting text messages about women and gays.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Southern University says its medical marijuana grower has planted its first crop, as Louisiana edges nearer to having product available to patients.

The NBC revival brought in huge ratings at first—but now it’s being canceled, joining a growing graveyard that includes Murphy Brown and Fuller House.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Thursday for shutting him out of an event marking the passage of a permanent compensation fund for Sept. 11 first responders.

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ST. LANDRY PARISH- “Detectives with the Eunice Substation have recovered a bulldozer stolen from a job site worth $150,000,” according to Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz. The bulldozer had last been seen on July 18, was reported missing on July 22, by the owner of a local company who reported that his crew was working on […]

Stocks retreated from record highs set a day earlier as large companies delivered weak earnings reports and disappointing forecasts. Technology stocks sustained the steepest declines throughout the day Thursday. Digital payments company PayPal slid after cutting its revenue forecast. Facebook dropped after the company said it’s being investigated over allegedly anticompetitive behavior. Tesla slumped after

In her inaugural speech as President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Mona Juul, of Norway, underscored that the body’s mandate today remains “as rel-evant and compelling” as it did back in 1945 when it was tasked with ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Jenniffer González Colón, the resident commissioner for Puerto Rico, about the island's political future following the governor's resignation.

Jesus Vallejo is reportedly on the verge of sealing a sensational switch to Wolves.

The episode highlights long-standing concerns about the wide reach of McKinsey’s work for the federal government.

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Four KFC/Taco Bell employees were fired from a Vermont franchise for breaking into a food fight, causing one to wash her hair in the restaurant’s kitchen sink.

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Disregarding the opposition's demand for further scrutiny by a select committee, Lok Sabha passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 which provides for a prison term of three years for Muslims males who may chose to practice the outlawed instant oral talaq. This is the third time the Modi government has secured passage of the bill in Lok Sabha.

The second earth bound orbit-raising maneuver for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully on Friday, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement."Second earth bound orbit-raising maneuver for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully today (July 26, 2019) at 0108 hrs (IST) as planned, using the onboard propulsion system for a firing duration of 883 seconds. The orbit achieved is 251 x 54829 km. All spacecraft parameters are normal.," ISRO said in its statement.The... Читать дальше...

Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother exec producer Chuck Tatham is to exec produce a comedy for Canada’s Bell Media and Letterkenny producer New Metric Media. Tatham has joined Children Ruin Everything, which was created by Schitt’s Creek writer Kurt Smeaton. The show, which is in development for the Canadian broadcaster, is about […]

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at USP Terre Haute, a high-security penitentiary