The pensioner was stopped by police and taken back to his warden-assisted home.
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The National Archives did a document dump on Friday, releasing transcripts, meeting agendas, and confidentiality agreements from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
The group was set up in the aftermath of the crisis by Congress to look into the causes of the event, and the documents are a gold mine of information.
We're reading through it and will update as we see more interesting nuggets, but to start out, here is a great excerpt from an interview with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in 2010. Читать дальше...
Attorney Neal Hirschfeld says the boy’s parents, Raul Manzano and Catheryne Lucero, didn’t know their son hadn’t been cremated.
Mourners began arriving at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley a full two hours before the start of the funeral for the trailblazing former First Lady.
A look at the creative design genius behind "Dr. Strangelove" and the James Bond series
Keith Emerson, founding member and keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a prog rock legend, died Friday. He was 71. While the cause of death was not announced, both his bandmate Carl Palmer and the trio's official Facebook confirmed Emerson's death. "We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died...
A Navy admiral aboard a San Diego ship to oversee major training exercises last year spent hours watching online pornography on his government computer, an investigation released this week found.
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Post-game locker room interviews with Gary Payton II, Olaf Schaftenaar, Derrick Bruce, Stephen Thompson Jr. and Head Coach Wayne Tinkle after their loss to the California Golden Bears 76-68 in Game 8 of the 2016 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament at…
A Thurston County judge has ruled the Washington, D.C.-based Grocery Manufacturers Association violated Washington state's public disclosure laws in a massive money laundering effort.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are revising their Zika travel warnings, saying it's OK for pregnant women to travel to Mexico City and other destinations at high elevations.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are revising their Zika travel warnings, saying it's OK for pregnant women to travel to Mexico City and other destinations at high elevations. The agency has advised pregnant women to avoid travel to about three dozen countries and islands because the Zika virus is the suspected cause of a surge of birth defects in Brazil.
Hey, so this is Adele. You know, the singer that can basically do no wrong.
Читать дальше...When the wife of Brent Grimes pulled the plug on her Twitter page at or about the same time the former Falcon and Dolphin signed in Tampa, some thought the Buccaneers asked her to ditch social media and otherwise to quiet down. Her comments to Omar Kelly of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel suggest otherwise. Indeed,…
China has reportedly unblocked a certain search term in recent days: “third-generation pig.” The phrase apparently refers to autocratic North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and the decision to unblock it could indicate growing tensions between Beijing and Pyongyang over Kim’s recent nuclear and missile tests.
Business secretary will not clarify whether he took part in banned tax avoidance scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — A Bulgarian man has been charged with manipulating the stocks of Avon and two other companies by issuing fake takeover offers and using insider information.
Does the presidential race seem like a comedy of errors to anyone else yet?
The police have registered a case of sexual abuse against the teacher
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WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- The head of the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Higher Education Reform, part of the American Enterprise Institute, said the student loan crisis is overblown.
Syria's main opposition group said it would attend peace talks in Geneva, but accused the government of preparing to escalate the war to strengthen its negotiating position.
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The Championship club will hope to pull off an FA Cup upset against Alan Pardew's struggling Eagles. Follow all the action LIVE with Goal!
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Washington, DC, this week.
He appears to have made a best friend in US President Barack Obama.
And the internet is loving it.
Trudeau came to town for a little state dinner for Canada and the US.
Jonathan Ernst / ReutersIt was Trudeau's first official visit to the White House.
Jonathan Ernst / ReutersYou could see how much it meant to him by the look in his eyes.
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The world has always been in a state of conflict and change.
Throughout all of human history, empires have risen only to be overtaken and then to fall because of some combination of internal pressures and external assaults. Such broad sweeps of history are generally hard to picture — especially contextually with the rest of the world.
Fortunately, Ollie Bye has created a YouTube video that shows the entire history of the world's empires rising and falling. We have GIFed some of the pivotal moments of human history below. Читать дальше...
The workout was filled with battle drills, working without the puck and pretty much everything the Wild didn't do in its loss to Edmonton.
