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Senior members of Bolivia’s MAS party looking at four ways to allow him to run

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Rex Ryan is not expected to be back as coach of the Buffalo Bills next season, as ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the team is "preparing to part ways" with him. 

Ryan is in the second year of a five-year deal, but with the Bills likely to miss the playoffs again (they have not been in the playoffs since 1999), Ryan will reportedly be fired. According to Schefter, Ryan is aware of his fate, which could make for an awkward game against the Browns on Sunday. 

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NOORD-DEURNINGEN – Jos Timmerhuis mag zich Overijssels kampioen noemen. De vogelkweker van de Denekampse natuur- en vogelvereniging Witroka behaalde deze titel op de verenigings-expositie bij Tuincentrum Oosterik.

Anti-Donald Trump forces held a slim hope Sunday 37 Republican members of the Electoral College would revolt and deny the president-elect the White House, but chances of that happening were slim. The 538 electors meet Monday in their respective state capitals to vote for president, many of them with their hands tied by state law to cast their votes for the winner of the popular vote in their states.

While the nation slowly becomes cashless, Udupi is doing its bit by adopting cashless travel on service and express buses using cash cards.

“I guess part of my over-all message here as I leave for the holidays is that, if we look for one explanation or one silver bullet or one easy fix for our politics, then we’re probably going to be disappointed,” President Obama said in a press conference on Friday. He will be in Hawaii for the next couple of weeks; that comment came in response to a question about whether, while he was gone, members of the Electoral College, which meets on Monday, should do something dramatic, and whether the whole electoral-college system needed scrambling.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House chief of staff on Sunday played down the prospect that Trump would revisit Washington's decades-old "one China" policy, even though he suggested as much a week ago. Since 1979, the United States has acknowledged Taiwan as part of "one China" but Trump prompted a diplomatic protest from Beijing after he accepted a congratulatory phone call on his election win from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on Dec. 2. "We are not suggesting that we're... Читать дальше...

With a last-minute jolt to the 2016 box office, Disney’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” shot past all other competition to land the third-best opening of the year. 

On Monday, the electoral college will meet to determine who will be the next president of the United States. Law Professor at Columbia University Richard Briffault walk us through the process.

On WCCO radio, coach says players’ boycott was about fairness and due process, not about dismissing sexual assault or getting U leaders fired. Players ended boycott Saturday morning.

LOS ANGELES — A Nigerian national has been charged in connection with a hack of Los Angeles County emails that might have exposed personal data from more than 750,000 people who had business with county departments, officials said.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story easily topped the box office with a $155 million gross in its first weekend! The standalone Star Wars flick, starring Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, brought in $290.5 million globally, which is the second-best showing of all time for December behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to THR. [...]

Michael Floyd will not play for his new team New England in the Patriots’ showdown with the Denver Broncos.

A showdown in Congress is looming over expanding sanctions against Russia, possibly pitting lawmakers once again against President-elect Donald J. Trump and his secretary of state nominee who previously has opposed them.

Deputy commissioner T Venkatesh stressed the need for strict implementation of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PC-PNDT) to prevent falling female to male sex ratio in the country.

Chief minister Siddaramaiah lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not sparing time to meet the delegation led by him in New Delhi recently. He even called it anti-democratic

An incredible goal was fitting to win as Manchester City came from behind to earn three points.

The Tomah High School wrestling team took care of business in its Mississippi Valley Conference opener Thursday.

Will the Syrian rebels in the south share the same fate of the resistance groups in Aleppo? An in-depth look at the current and unsteady state of the southern front.

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Multiple attacks in Jordan on Sunday killed at least 10 people, including one Canadian tourist, officials said, after gunmen opened fire on police and launched an attack on a medieval castle.

Gunmen are now believed to be holdup in Karak Castle, a Crusader fortress and a popular tourist destination, after attacking a police station there.

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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday dubbed demonetization a ‘Modi-made disaster’ and alleged that the PM undertook this exercise to repay 50 super rich families who built up his image so that he got the post.

The Tulu Film Producers’ Association is all set to duly elect its maiden set of office bearers at the Don Bosco Hall on December 24.