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Ratings Skyrocket, Sponsors Flee as Trump Endorses Fox News Host O'Reilly

Following the Times' article, advertisers began to pull their ads from The O'Reilly Factor's time slot. Bill O'Reilly is known for notoriously spewing out...

Ag experts say lack of water storage keeping Valley in drought

While in Tulare, one of the four counties excluded from Brown's order to lift the drought emergency , charity workers said almost 9,000 families still had hug...

Denver among worst cities for dog attacks on letter carriers

In 2016, the number reached 6,755, up 200 from 2015. It's likely that the number has risen because of the prevalence of 24-hour online shopping, with packages b...

Americans have largely negative opinion about Xi Jinping

Xi made a great point in stating there are "a thousand reasons to make China-US relationship a success" and there is "not a single reason to break it". "The wea...

ACWA Comments on Lifting of Drought Emergency, Final Framework on Long-Term Conservation

Nisei Farmers League President Manuel Cunha says local farmers have conserved enough water. Though drought emergency measures had been lifted throughout the s...

One For Arthur wins the Grand National

The Grand National dates back to 1839 and while Bob Champion's comeback from cancer aboard Aldaniti in 1981 is unlikely to be surpassed for digging deep into hu...

Fowler, Hoffman edge ahead at sun-drenched Masters

Garcia, 37, has played in 73 major championships without a victory, which is the second most in the tournament to Lee Westwood's 75 majors without a title. It...

U.S. technically enjoying full employment; but job creation is slowing down

United States employment gains slowed in March but the jobless rate unexpectedly dropped to the lowest in nearly a decade, suggesting the labour market is retur...

United Airlines: Customers 'Welcome' To Wear Leggings, But Not Pass Riders

Two girls in the popular spandex trousers weren't permitted on the aircraft at all, according to Shannon Watts , the founder of a gun control group called Moms ...

Trump quietly repeals internet privacy protection laws

Without the FCC rules in place, ISPs may collect and sell web browsing histories , health and financial data, the contents of emails and messages, app usage ...

Randox Health Grand National - jockeys' reaction

One For Arthur arrives on the back of a three-mile-five-furlong Betfred Classic Chase win at Warwick in January under jockey Derek Fox who will be riding i...

USA job growth slows sharply, unemployment rate falls to 4.5%

It was the lowest gain since May 2016 and one of the lowest of the 8-year-old recovery, but the seasonally adjusted net gain still marked the 78th consecutive m...

USA unemployment rate dropped to 4.5% in March

This measure does not account for those individuals who have dropped out of the labor force-it simply measures the percent of those who did not have a job but...

Sacked SA finance minister rubbishes conspiracy allegations against him

The ANC has been the dominant party in South Africa since sweeping to power under Nelson Mandela at the end of apartheid in 1994. Earlier this week he was abrup...

Local water agencies react to Drought State of Emergency being lifted

New regulations making water-conservation measures permanent are now being created by the state water board and the state Legislature, said Max Gomberg, the wat...

Tempe Police: self-driving car involved in accident

Uber suspended the pilot program in Arizona immediately after the crash as the vehicle was in self-driving mode when the accident happened. Weekend crash wa...

Greece Clears A Bailout Hurdle

Greece's target is for a budget surplus before debt servicing of 3.5 percent of GDP in 2018 and thereafter to be maintained at that level over the "medium term"...

Gov. Jerry Brown Lifts Drought Emergency For Most Of California

Brown lifted most stipulations of an emergency order he implemented in January 2014, about two years after conditions developed into a drought. "In this dr...

Tesla sets new record for production, deliveries in the first quarter

For now, the maker continues to rely on two higher-priced models delivering 13,450 Model S sedans during the final three months of 2016, along with 11,550 Model...

Government Launches New Gender Pay Gap Initiative

It added that four-fifths (82 per cent) do not review their gender equality pay policy. Trump took to her Twitter on the holiday, which was launched by the Na...

Fitch downgrades SA to junk status

Shortly after the protests got under way, ratings agency Fitch announced that it too had downgraded South Africa to junk status. Fitch says the reshuffle,...

US Threatens More Pressure on Syria After Missile Strikes

Though he did not attack the Syrian government, Obama did not do "nothing". Rep. Kildee said President Trump's actions were acceptable but he must come to Con...

Saudi Arabia says fully supports US military strikes in Syria

The chemical attack prompted the U.S.to launch almost 60 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian air base early Friday, which killed nine people and marked the first time...

Greece cedes to reform demands to snap bailout impasse

The spending-cut reforms required by creditors and the measures requested by the Greek government to help people most hit by the crisis will be tabled at the sa...

Dog attacks on mail carriers rise again as online sales boom

Los Angeles is this year's worst city, with 80 attacks. A total of 6,755 postal employees across the nation were attacked by dogs in calendar year 2016 - more...

Last Fed meeting's minutes show talk of paring bond holdings

Some Fed officials also are nervous about the stock market's climb, the account said. "He has softened any suggestion that any reduction in balance sheet would ...

California governor: Drought over, conservation must go on

Modesto gets its drinking water from wells and the Tuolumne River. Two of those counties - Kings and Tulare - are immediately adjacent to Kern, so, in the geogr...

Allies show off bomber after 'failed' North Korean test

South Korea's Ministry of Defense also confirmed the failed launch. It is unclear what type of missile was tested Wednesday. On a trip to North Asia, Tillerson ...

Chinese Grand Prix qualifying: Hamilton takes pole; Bottas in third

Hamilton's record-setting lap bettered Michael Schumacher's 2004 timing by over half a second. Hamilton said it was a particularly satisfying pole given yes...

Advocates call for more salary transparency on Equal Pay Day

New Jersey's " Equal Pay Day " - the date when women's salaries catch up to men's from the year before - actually arrived a couple days earlier. In other words,...

Ivanka Trump 'behind Syria airstrike' after daughter heartbroken by chemical attack

Before the chemical attack , the Syrian air force was bombing the town, he said. The Trump administration on Friday described his decision to launch a missil...

Executive order won't bring back coal jobs

But, she added, others thinking about it without making a public announcement may now reconsider if Trump's order on less-restrictive carbon emissions, though t...

Lauda loses bet against his own Mercedes team

Despite the strong pace, Hamilton secured a second consecutive pole position courtesy of two impressive laps in Q3, beating Sebastian Vettel by 0.186s. A wet ra...

Trudeau heading to France to mark the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge

Several other Canadian dignitaries will attend the ceremonies, including Quebec's Minister of International Relations, Christine St-Pierre. In the years that ...

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly scandal over sex harrassment payouts deepens

Rowe Price all told Reuters they were no longer advertising on the show. Bill O'Reilly, the presenter of the weekday show The O'Reilly Factor, faces calls to...