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US student case reminder of prison conditions in Nth Korea

They say his brain shows significant tissue damage, but a cause for his disease is unknown. The 22-year-old has not spoken or "engaged in any purposeful movem...

Website says Tucson drivers are the 28th worst in the country

Conversely, Detroit , Providence, R.I., and Orlando , Fla., are America's best driving cities, respectively, the study says. QuoteWizard sampled incident ...

Iranians brush off US travel ban

Trump called the Supreme Court's order "a clear victory for our national security". The Supreme Court ruled that the ban can go into effect "with respect...

Judge Orders Temporary Funding for State Legislature

Hanson replied that it was possible, but didn't buy the idea a governor would take such an "unsavory" action. A Ramsey County District Court judge Tuesday gra...

Ingredient in popular weed killer going on list as cancerous

He added that the decision handed down was not the final step in this process and that the company would continue to challenge in an aggressive manner the impr...

2 more plague cases reported in New Mexico's Santa Fe County

The first case of the year was reported earlier this month in a 63-year-old man. "These cases all come from various locations in Santa Fe County , and there ...

Three Chicago cops indicted in Laquan McDonald case

FILE - In this October 20, 2014 file image taken from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department , Laquan McDonald, right, walks down the street ...

Supreme Court order may cause travel chaos

When the Trump administration rolled out the President's first executive order in January , bedlam ensued nearly immediately as foreigners from seven predomina...

Terry Francona will not manage tonight's game against the Rangers

Six of the nine starters reached base safely three times. Jose Ramirez and Edwin Encarnacion were the only two players without at least one RBI, but the t...

PM Narendra Modi arrives in Netherlands on final leg of tour

Information and Broadcasting Minister further stated that the main objective of Prime Minister's visit to the US is to further strengthen and consolidate the In...

Arrested During Chicago Pride Parade

The event was the group's response to the Vancouver Pride Society's decision to continue to allow Vancouver police to take part in the annual Pride Parade , ...

Foundation Claims Victory in Church Playground Case

The case, Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer , concerned a Missouri rule that barred churches from a program that allowed groups to be reimbu...

'Pharma Bro' defies advice to keep quiet before fraud trial

Jury selection is expected to continue at least through Tuesday morning. The 34-year-old Shkreli has upended conventional wisdom about avoiding bad pretrial p...

Ada County plans mosquito control amid West Nile threat

Director of Health, Caroline Calderone Baisley stated, "Controlling the mosquito population in the larval stage through the application of larvicide has been fo...

Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PTLA) Stock Price Up 5.3% After Analyst Upgrade

Tightening the gaze, stock performance for the last 5 trading days is 2.72%. Putnam Investments LLC raised its stake in shares of Portola Pharmaceuticals ...

Supreme Court rules in favor of church in religious rights case

Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a major religious rights case that narrows the separation of church and state. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her diss...

Jailed Noble Laureate treated by specialists: prison officials

Liu, 61, has been hospitalized in Shenyang, the capital city of China's Northeast Liaoning Province, and his lawyer says Liu's condition is deteriorating. Gen...

GOP Senate Bill Would Cut Health Care Coverage By 22 Million

By 2026, the report states, Medicaid enrollment among those under age 65 would fall by 16%, and an estimated 49 people would be uninsured, compared with a...

Nobel-winning Chinese dissident given medical parole

A serious illness like liver cancer could be easily missed at the prison despite checkups, although it's equally possible that Beijing has neglected care for ...

Pharmacy head to be sentenced in deadly meningitis outbreak

Prosecutors are asking the judge to sentence Cadden to 35 years in prison. The situation unfolded as a slow-motion disaster, first with a few unusual meningit...

Donald Trump pushes 'energy week' and goal of exporting resources

President Donald Trump on Thursday will lay out his plan for reducing regulations to boost already-abundant US production of oil, natural gas and coal and expo...

Dozens killed in Afghanistan as car bomb hits bank branch

He says at least a dozen people were wounded in the explosion outside a Kabul Bank branch. An injured man is carried to a hospital on a strecher after a v...

Prosecutors recommend 35-year sentence for NECC Exec.

But defense attorney Bruce Singal is asking for a three-year prison sentence, pointing to the jury's decision to acquit him of 25 counts of second-degree murd...

South Africa Bans Sale of Live Hens to Contain Bird Flu

SA Poultry Association CEO Kevin Lovell said the disease is carried to poultry by wild birds. "To date, no human cases of infection with avian influenza H5N8 ...

Image of the US has plunged under Trump, survey shows

More than three-quarters of the world has little or no confidence in Donald Trump's global leadership and his signature policies, with support for the America...

Seattle area reacts to the Supreme Court's revival of Trump's travel ban

The high court postponed for the October term a decision on the major point of whether the president, and not the courts, are ultimately responsible for kee...

Who can get around the travel ban?

Assuming the order takes effect now, the ban will have expired by October when the court reconvenes. The travel ban can now be enforced as long as it exclud...

Virginia districts drawn to help GOP

One example of a major disparity cited by the AP was in MI, where the head-to-head vote was about 50-50, but Republicans won 57 percent of the house seats in ...

Somali Refugee Reacts To Supreme Court Decision On Travel Ban

The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration mostly enforce its 90-day ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries , overturning lower co...

Oscar Mayer Adds 'WienerDrone' to Wienermobile Fleet

Oscar Mayer unveiled the Wienerdrone in a very sleek, very goofy video shared Monday. As is now en vogue for any company making a product that ends up in c...

Free HIV testing Tuesday

Now, if you get treated early you can get on medication and you can live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. "It was created by the National Association of People with ...

Why The Supreme Court Travel Ban Ruling Is A Win For Trump

Meanwhile, the Court stayed lower court injunctions allowing President Donald Trump's revised travel ban to go in effect, but only to the extent that it affects...

Bill Russell highlights National Basketball Association awards show, Russell Westbrook wins MVP

He ended the two-year reign of Stephen Curry , who last season was the league's first unanimous most valuable player . Think of it as the ESPYs, only withou...

Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than European

A decade ago, the typical Australian would have been a year younger. Islam (2.6 per cent) and Buddhism (2.4 per cent) were the next most common religions repo...

Senate backs measure limiting president's power to lift sanctions

Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, both Republicans, were the only votes against it - bolsters existing sanctions and would allow Congress to thwart an...