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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ted Cruz says there is a risk that Donald Trump supporters would bolt from the Republican Party if he loses the nomination at the Republican Party convention this summer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An outside group is rushing to support Donald Trump's Republican presidential bid, including in next-to-vote Wisconsin.

News that Quebec's iconic rotisserie chicken chain, St-Hubert, is being sold to the company that owns Swiss Chalet has sparked a frenzy of social reaction online.

Exxon and Chevron face proposals from investors at their annual meetings

CUPERTINO (ANP) - Apple heeft Philips opgenomen in zijn lijst van tweehonderd belangrijkste toeleveranciers, ten koste van de Duitse concurrent op het gebied van ledverlichting Osram. De maker van onder meer smartphones, tablets en computers publiceerde die lijst donderdag.

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NEW ORLEANS, March 31 (UPI) -- Although teams might be buying into analytics, it could take a while for Voodoo to take hold.

Sad news in the classic rock world. Andy "Thunderclap" Newman, namesake of the British band behind the generation-defining hit "...

Britain blamed for blocking moves to shut out cheap Chinese steel imports

Britain blamed for blocking moves to shut out cheap Chinese steel imports

They aren’t kitten.

A police station in the UK may get its first "police cat" thanks to a paw-suasive letter from a five-year-old girl, who asked her local constabulary to consider using police cats alongside dogs in their crime-fighting efforts.

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Eliza Adamson-Hopper, who has a cat named Mittens and a dog named Susie, wrote a letter to the Durham Constabulary asking them to consider enlisting police cats alongside its dogs to paw out crime. Читать дальше...

The Chhattisgarh Assembly on Thursday passed bills effecting  substantial hike in salaries of the Chief Minister, ministers and legislators.

Road rage attacks aren't uncommon in NCR but the kind that a man fell victim to earlier this week on a Gurgaon road showed another shocking side to the aggression motorists in this part of the world regularly display.

New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) An MoU was signed here on Thursday to promote research in premier technical institutions through IMPRINT, a pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to develop a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges in technology domains relevant to India.

Vasco: Never before has the battle to survive relegation in the I-League been as close as 2016. Just four points separate the fourth ranked team, Sporting Clube de Goa and bottom placed Shillong Lajong FC in this nine-team league.

California’s minimum wage increase to $15 an hour over the next six years passed its most critical legislative test Thursday morning, with the state Assembly approving the deal, sending it on a path to reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by the end of the day.

A judge in Albuquerque on Thursday spared former Ultimate Fighting Championship light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones from continued jail time that could have imperiled his scheduled main-event fight to regain the belt April 23 in Las Vegas.

Modi’s meeting with the LIGO scientists in Washington DC, comes just two days after he met scientists from the Institute of Plasma Research in New Delhi, who are also working on the LIGO project.

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Celebrities have been endorsing products for decades, but it turns out they may not be the most effective way to get the public to actually make a purchase.

The use of influencer marketing, a strategy in which celebrities and popular social media personalities endorse products and brands, has been growing recently. But a report... Читать дальше...

The domestic worker of widow Shaikla Singh, who was murdered in her Musgrave home during an armed robbery, is the third suspect to be charged.

Boxing champion Billy Joe Saunders is fined after his guard dog bit a pensioner.

You may already know that there's no "magic" day or time of year to find the lowest possible airfares. But there are days to actually fly when it's much cheaper.

When most people think of Icelandic music, they think of avant, ethereal acts like Bjork (and the Sugarcubes), Sigur Ros, and GusGus. “I think the music scene in Iceland has changed a lot over the years,” says the band’s JJ Julius Son. “Growing up there, I was kind of searching for other music than Icelandic music, to be honest.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge approved a sweeping plan to reduce solitary confinement in New York state prisons Thursday, saying she hopes the deal to end decades-old practices becomes a model for other states confronting the harmful effects of extreme isolation. Asked about the finalized deal, a spokesman for the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association referred questions to a December statement from the union calling it "simply wrong to unilaterally take the tools... Читать дальше...

Panaji: The appeals committee of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) deferred FC Goa’s hearing over the Rs 50 lakh fine imposed by the disciplinary committee but the Goan franchise still has plenty to smile about.