$40m backdown on backpacker tax
ROLLING UPDATES: On the campaign trail in Sydney, the Assistant Treasurer has confirmed the controversial backpackers’ tax will be put off until January 1.
ROLLING UPDATES: On the campaign trail in Sydney, the Assistant Treasurer has confirmed the controversial backpackers’ tax will be put off until January 1.
Tashawn Bromfield, 16, was hanging out after buying Slurpees when Reginald Goldman shot him.
A mass grave containing THOUSANDS of slaughtered innocent victims of the so called Islamic State has been discovered in northern Syria. The discovery came to light after Kurdish YPG forces recaptured the town of Suluk, 11 miles from the Turkish border and 30 miles from the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. ISIS militants blindfolded their victims and tortured them before throwing them over the edge of a ravine. The Daily Express reports: According to reports, armed forces stumbled across the bones and blood of thousands of men... Читать дальше...
The congregation of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini church in Scituate, near Boston, will abandon their decade-long occupation, after the US Supreme Court chose not to get involved.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan are all predicting that the S&P 500 is poised for a summer of pain and are urging investors to rotate out of equities to avoid an impending firesale.
Abandoning the Pacific pact will tell America’s Asian allies that the U.S. is yielding to China. They will accommodate accordingly.
Harry Potter attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry — for free. Now thanks to the Las Vegas-headquartered Institute for Magic Education Inc., students of magic performance will have the same advantage.
President Obama’s contraceptive mandate gets a high court smackdown.
NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA announced Monday that it will offer detailed box scores after each game. They will include such categories as effective field goal percentage, player impact estimate, true shooting percentage and defensive rating.
Is gold a commodity, an investment, or money?
The answer is…
Gold is a chameleon. It changes in response to the environment.
At times, gold behaves like a commodity. The gold price tracks the ups and downs of commodity indices.
At other times, gold is viewed as a safe haven investment. It competes with stocks and bonds for investor attention.
And on occasion, gold assumes its role as the most stable long-term form of money the world has ever known.
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A concertgoer died from an assault in a food line at a Sacramento, Calif., radio station’s popular day-long show, police said.
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Actors Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie and director Jay Roach talk about their new film “All the Way” that tells the story of Lyndon B. Johnson’s historic presidency.
Venezuela provides a lesson to anyone tempted to feel the Bern.
A coalition of nearly three dozen groups are looking to jumpstart the push for Lavern's Law before the legislative session ends in June.
The Court offers Obama a chance for compromise on religious liberty.
The ladies of Fifth Harmony – Lauren Jauregui, Camila Cabello, Dinah Jane, Ally Brooke and Normani Kordei – pose backstage during CBS Radio’s SPF at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Sunday (May 15) in Las Vegas, Nev. Also in attendance at the concert were Iggy Azalea, Alessia Cara, Lukas Graham, Parson James, Conrad Sewell, [...]
Former two-term US president Bill Clinton will find it impossible to win the support of Republican lawmakers in the US Congress if his wife Hillary is elected president of the United States and then appoints him as her economic policy overlord, analysts told Sputnik.
The classic novel's 600 pages were condensed into a terrifying, two-hour performance.
Rain. What rain?
The Lincoln Board of Education elected Don Mayhew president at its annual organizational meeting Monday.
An openly gay Texas pastor who had accused Whole Foods of defacing his cake with an anti-gay slur dropped his suit. NYT reports.
The red carpet was rolled out again for the screenings of "Hands of Stone", “Loving" and “Paterson" at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. US actor Robert De Niro, Usher Raymond IV, Indian actress Sonar Kapoor, US producer Harvey Weinstein with his wife US actress Georgina Chapman and Model Kate Moss struck poses and signed autographs along the way.
Strength in metal prices this year has some "Fast Money" traders believing commodities stocks have room to run.