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  There are more hedge funds today than there have ever been in history, says billionaire Steve Cohen, and it’s bringing about one of his… Read More ›

  Des Moines, IA – The Marine Corps says it has begun investigating whether it mistakenly identified one of the men shown raising the U.S.… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have had ambitious goals when he announced his intention to plant one million trees in New York… Read More ›

New York – Tossing the gavel aside, feisty Judge Shira Scheindlin is speaking out, declaring victory over critics in the battle over police stop-and-frisk tactics… Read More ›

  Three New York college students who said they were targets of a racially motivated attack face multiple charges for what prosecutors are calling a… Read More ›

  Iran President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter over the weekend to praise the fact that 17 women will be part of the country’s new… Read More ›

  Rio de Janeiro – A regional judge on Monday ordered all telephone operators in Brazil to block WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by… Read More ›

US secretary of state to discuss truce with Jordan, Saudi FMs, UN special envoy.   BELGRADE – US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Geneva… Read More ›

  Friday’s 0.5% decline in the S&P 500 wasn’t enough to drop it into negative territory for April. The benchmark average finished the month up… Read More ›

  The $28 billion merger between Halliburton and Baker Hughes is officially over. The companies announced Sunday that they terminated their merger agreement after it faced… Read More ›

  Puerto Rico is going to default. In a television address made Sunday, Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the island’s Government Development Bank (GDB)… Read More ›

  Washington – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is appealing to African-American voters to prevent the progress achieved under Barack Obama’s presidency from being “torn away”… Read More ›

  New York, NY – Uber drivers in New York state have formed an association to strengthen their hand in dealing with the ride-sharing service,… Read More ›

  Five hundred people were arrested in Germany after violent clashes broke out, authorities said. More than 1,000 people were protesting Saturday in Stuttgart, where… Read More ›

Protesters who stormed Baghdad’s Green Zone retreated Sunday but organizers say the challenge to Iraq’s leadership isn’t over yet. Hundreds, if not thousands, of followers… Read More ›

  Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.’s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. “We… Read More ›

Founding ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo talks about war crimes trials and trying to deter genocide: past, present and future.   BUILDING GLOBAL  institutions is the… Read More ›

The question of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11 will remain in the arena of speculation and conspiracy theories.   Since 2005, the families of the… Read More ›

Israel and pragmatic Sunni states preparing for the day radical sub-state groups target them.   Last Wednesday, during the middle of the tranquil Passover vacation,… Read More ›

  (Reuters) – Yahoo has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon, with most offers involving cash… Read More ›