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HOUSTON — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has donated a combined $4 million to 20 charities in Houston. Alexander has long been a champion for animal rights, and five such organizations are part of this gift. Also receiving money are six groups that assist children in need as well as groups aiding refugees, abused women

Facing the beginning of the travel season, Israeli authorities have issued a warning against the nation’s citizens traveling to the Sinai Peninsula, citing a heightened risk for terrorism in the region.

Olive Garden owner Darden Restaurants said on Monday it would buy Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen for $780 million in an all-cash transaction.

"I don't want to address white questions, white fragility, white tears, white guilt or, really, white people at all."

Stock futures and the dollar slipped on Monday after President Trump's failure on healthcare reform

The Biometric Database Law was passed by a 39-to-29 vote on February 27 after years of controversy and adjustments.

Rockets owner Leslie Alexander donates a combined $4 million to 20 charities in Houston

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has donated a combined $4 million to 20 charities in Houston.

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has donated a combined $4 million to 20 charities in Houston.

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has donated a combined $4 million to 20 charities in Houston.

Wow, Wall Street actually likes Snapchat. 

A bunch of banks unleashed their feelings — or rather their sophisticated reports — on the company named Snap Inc. on Monday. And it was pretty damn good for the sexting app-turned-digital juggernaut.

SEE ALSO: Evan Spiegel has already made $1.5 billion off Snapchat's IPO

For the ratings: Snap now has 12 "buy", 11 "holds" and six "sells," Bloomberg reported. Goldman Sachs, Citi and Jefferies are all cheering buy! "Outperform," shout RBC Capital, Credit Suisse and Cowen. Читать дальше...

The market newborn received its first set of stock recommendations from IPO banks, with 69 per cent of analysts issuing ‘buy’ recommendations

Latvia's Norvik Banka and a Belarusian company will buy 100 percent of shares of Russia's Sberbank subsidiary in Ukraine, the deal is expected to be closed in the first half of 2017, Sberbank said in a statement on Monday.

Uber has suspended its self-driving car program while it investigates a crash involving one of its driverless vehicles. A self-driving Uber flipped on its side after the driver of another car failed to yield and hit it. Mireya Villarreal reports.

Environmentalists, climate advocates and many world leaders have feared this moment ever since President Donald Trump took office. On Tuesday, with the anticipated signing of an Executive Order, the great climate policy dismantling is slated to begin. 

Parts of the Central U.S. are bracing for more severe weather after a string of violent thunderstorms. The powerful storm hammered parts of north Texas and Oklahoma. David Begnaud reports.

Fans of Nintendo’s mobile RPG title Fire Emblem: Heroes will soon be able to play for longer, thanks to an upcoming April update. Fire Emblem: Heroes’ Japanese Twitter account, via Polygon, confirmed the game’s stamina cap limit will be raised from 50 points to 99 points.

On the outskirts of Lima, hundreds of householders salvage scant belongings in what is left of their homes after the Rimac River burst its banks in recent weeks amid Peru's worst flooding disaster in decades. Many of the hardest hit are those who can least afford it — poor Peruvians who built their homes on cheap land near the river, which runs from Peru's central Andes to the Pacific coast. Simeona Mosquera contemplates her uncertain future, standing in what once was her front room and is now a ruin of mud and debris. Читать дальше...

As owner of the first major pro sports franchise in Las Vegas, Bill Foley of hockey’s Vegas Golden Knights congratulated Raiders owner Mark Davis today on becoming the second. “On behalf of the entire Vegas Golden Knights family, I would like to ...

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have began “extensive” military drills in the Golan Heights despite heightened tensions with Syria. The exercises come at a time of increased tension with Syria who reportedly shot down an Israeli [...]

(ATTN: UPDATES with departure; ADDS background; CHANGES headline) SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's vice defense minister left for Egypt on Monday in the latest move to boost cooperation with the African country. The trip by Vice Defense M

The Halo World Championship took place this past weekend at the ESL Studios in California. Twelve teams battled for $1 million, but one team stood head and shoulders above the rest.

USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the fallout from the failure of the Republicans' Obamacare replacement plan and how it could impact President Trump's upcoming agenda.

The actress Alyssa Milano is doing get-out-the-vote work for the Democrat fighting to take the suburban Atlanta congressional seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, she and her colleague Christopher Gorham tweeted on Monday.

United Airlines is defending its decision not to let three girls board a plane because they were wearing leggings. The decision created a social media frenzy after a woman at the airport tweeted about it. Kris Van Cleave reports.