CINCINNATI — Scott Schebler stood and watched his first career game-ending homer stay inside the foul pole, and then flipped his bat and made the tour of the bases. Quite a return for the outfielder. Schebler’s three-run homer in the ninth inning rallied the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday from its western region into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of launches in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Charter boat operators in the Great Lakes say Congress might be giving up on a permanent solution to the threat of invasive Asian carp.
They blocked a road in front of the court for about 30 minutes and raised slogans in support of their demand.
OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas quarterback Kellen Moore broke his right ankle in a training camp practice Tuesday, likely forcing the Cowboys to look outside the organization for an experienced backup. The injury happened during one of the last plays of 11-on-11 work in the second full-pad practice of camp. Guard Jared Smith was pushed back
CNBC's John Harwood tweeted Trump campaign manager Paul
Experts recommend that teenagers should wait as long as possible before wearing high heels and only for special occasions since they can cause inflammation in the feet, ankles, and back.
Experts recommend that teenagers should wait as long as possible before wearing high heels and only for special occasions since they can cause inflammation in the feet, ankles, and back.
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Security, Europe
The rest of the treaty is just as important.
There has been a great deal of discussion in recent weeks over the attitudes of the two main presidential candidates towards the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In particular, the Hillary Clinton campaign has taken clear aim at Donald Trump's comments about the continued utility of the NATO alliance—and questioned whether a Trump administration would continue to honor America’s commitment... Читать дальше...
Mayor Eric Garcetti’s latest appointment to the Police Commission was unanimously approved Tuesday by the City Council, clearing the way for her to join the civilian oversight board.
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Dallas quarterback Kellen Moore broke his right ankle in a training camp practice Tuesday, likely forcing the Cowboys to look outside the organization for an experienced backup.
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Dallas quarterback Kellen Moore broke his right ankle in a training camp practice Tuesday, likely forcing the Cowboys to look outside the organization for an experienced backup.
A three-member team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headed by Paswani visited Mysuru district court on Tuesday afternoon to probe the blast in the toilet.
Akhilesh Pillalamarri
Politics, Americas
The presidency is the problem.
Given the tortuous manner in which the American political system has been functioning the past decade, can a case be made for the United States to switch over to a different sort of democratic political system? While the sacrosanct status of the U.S. Constitution makes any formal change unlikely, it is still interesting to speculate over whether or not a parliamentary system would be more suitable for the United States... Читать дальше...
A military retiree appreciation day will be held Friday, Sept. 9 at Fort McCoy.
Figures suggest significant convention boost for Democratic candidate
Nikolay Pakhomov
Politics, Middle East
Turkey and beyond.
The attempted coup in Turkey raised so many questions that experts and journalists seemed eager to cover other events happening around the world, rather than untangle the situation in Turkey. Still, there is one very clear result of the coup: Western countries should take caution when executing foreign policy based on liberal idealism. The dramatic events in Turkey reminded everybody that there is a limit in international... Читать дальше...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say two to three vehicles carrying dozens of people plunged into a flooded river after a portion of an old bridge collapsed on Mumbai-Goa highway in western India.
Richard Caroll
Economics, Asia
Economic pressures are pushing the party south.
The increasingly aggressive and militaristic behavior in the South China Sea by China is driven by the economic needs of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which currently controls mainland China’s government. While the world has looked in wonder at the economic revival of China since its economic reforms, enacted in the late 1970s, it has overlooked a serious flaw by the CCP in its failure to... Читать дальше...
A photo is worth a thousand words, and this snapshot of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at tonight's State Dinner for Singapore's Prime Minister is certainly no...
DETROIT — The Tigers got a ton of offense Tuesday night — and that wasn’t even the most important part of their 11-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox. The most encouraging aspect of Detroit’s seventh straight win was Anibal Sanchez’s performance. Sanchez (5-12) allowed one run in six innings to win for the first
The deaths of three people, including a San Francisco man, at a massive Southern California rave over the weekend are stark reminders of the potential danger of mixing so-called party drugs with a hot, exhausting dance scene that stretches for hours, emergency care and public health experts said Tuesday. The last major incident was in 2010, during an event at the Cow Palace in Daly City, when one man died after an ecstasy overdose and nine people were hospitalized. Nearly 600 law enforcement officers... Читать дальше...
The empowered committee on Dasara, headed by chief minister Siddaramaiah, is setting the ball rolling on Friday for the flagship festival of the state.
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Hillary Clinton recently described Donald Trump’s ideas as “dangerously incoherent.”
“They’re not even really ideas,” she said, “just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.” She wasn’t wrong; incoherence is a prominent feature of Trump’s rule-breaking rhetorical style.
But in the context of political communication, what’s especially striking about Trump is that he rarely make use of that sharp political tool: the central metaphor. Читать дальше...
