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Report: Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks

Report: Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks

On Thursday the United States said it was hoping to hear from Iran and Assad’s other main ally, Russia, on whether they would be ready… Read More ›

Iran poets sentenced to 99 lashes for holding women’s hands

Iran poets sentenced to 99 lashes for holding women’s hands

Widespread crackdown on free expression by judiciary and regime security services seen as effort to prevent ‘soft revolution’   DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —… Read More ›

Today’s college graduate is expected to retire at age 75 — here’s how much you have to save to stop working sooner

Today’s college graduate is expected to retire at age 75 — here’s how much you have to save to stop working sooner

  Today’s recent college graduates probably feel like retirement is a long way off. It might be even further away than they think. A study… Read More ›

Theranos is reportedly shaking up its board of directors amid criticism over its lab testing technology

Theranos is reportedly shaking up its board of directors amid criticism over its lab testing technology

  Theranos, the lab-testing company currently embroiled in questions about the legitimacy of its test methods, is reportedly preparing to shake up its board of… Read More ›

The first reviews of the Apple TV are in and it sounds completely underwhelming

The first reviews of the Apple TV are in and it sounds completely underwhelming

  Apple’s TV streaming box hits stores on Friday, but we’re seeing the first reviews trickle out. The device, which connects to your TV to make it… Read More ›

Boulder, CO – Republicans Go On The Attack In Feisty Presidential Debate

Boulder, CO – Republicans Go On The Attack In Feisty Presidential Debate

  Boulder, CO – Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush suggested rival Marco Rubio resign his Senate seat on Wednesday at a testy economic debate marked… Read More ›

Washington – AP FACT CHECK: The Republican Debaters And The Facts

Washington – AP FACT CHECK: The Republican Debaters And The Facts

  Washington – Ben Carson pitched a tax plan with numbers that didn’t add up. Donald Trump boasted that he’s paying his own way in… Read More ›

Washington – Boehner Voices Few Regrets, No Second Thoughts On Way Out

Washington – Boehner Voices Few Regrets, No Second Thoughts On Way Out

  Washington – Speaker John Boehner, reflecting Wednesday on a nearly quarter-century run on Capitol Hill, defended his decision to push a bipartisan budget deal… Read More ›

Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest

Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest

A student slammed to the ground by a South Carolina school resource officer “bears some responsibility,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. The student’s… Read More ›

Kurdish family fleeing Syria stuck in Moscow airport for over 50 days

Kurdish family fleeing Syria stuck in Moscow airport for over 50 days

A Kurdish family that fled the Syrian civil war has landed in a bureaucratic purgatory: the Moscow airport. Hassan Abdo Ahmed Mohammed, his wife and… Read More ›

Employees at the company Cisco just bought for $452.5 million had an inside joke about the sale

Employees at the company Cisco just bought for $452.5 million had an inside joke about the sale

  On Tuesday, Cisco announced its intent to acquire a privately held company out of Alpharetta, Georgia, called Lancope for $452.5 million. Lancope was founded in 2000… Read More ›

There is one clear winner on Wall Street in the Walgreens-Rite Aid mega-deal

There is one clear winner on Wall Street in the Walgreens-Rite Aid mega-deal

  Walgreens Boots Alliance just announced a deal to buy Rite Aid, and there is one clear winner on Wall Street. Swiss bank UBS is the… Read More ›

Apple just reported the biggest annual profit in history

Apple just reported the biggest annual profit in history

  Apple has recorded the biggest annual profit in corporate history, with record sales of the iPhone helping it to make $53.4bn (£35bn) in the… Read More ›

Florida – Despite Risks, Carson Not Backing Off Nazi, Slavery Examples

Florida – Despite Risks, Carson Not Backing Off Nazi, Slavery Examples

  Florida – On the eve of the his party’s third debate, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson promised not to curb his penchant for using… Read More ›

Washington – Senator Warren Says Life Insurers Admit To Offering ‘Kickbacks’

Washington – Senator Warren Says Life Insurers Admit To Offering ‘Kickbacks’

  Washington – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said 13 major U.S. life insurers had admitted to using incentives such as expensive vacations and gifts, which… Read More ›

Man gets 6 years after $28.5 million invoice for ammunition found on phone

Man gets 6 years after $28.5 million invoice for ammunition found on phone

  London – A man received a six-year prison sentence Tuesday after admitting guilt to terror and immigration offenses, British prosecutors said. Police discovered images on… Read More ›

Meet the soldiers fighting ISIS with hunting rifles and homemade mortars

Meet the soldiers fighting ISIS with hunting rifles and homemade mortars

Hasakah, Syria – Lightly armed, poorly equipped and exhausted by months under fire — but determined to keep fighting: this is the reality of life on… Read More ›

Pentagon awards Northrop Grumman stealth bomber contract

Pentagon awards Northrop Grumman stealth bomber contract

The Pentagon took a major step toward upgrading its aging bomber fleet Tuesday, awarding the long-awaited contract to build the new Long Range Strike Bomber… Read More ›

Washington is on the verge of a massive budget deal — here’s what it would tackle

Washington is on the verge of a massive budget deal — here’s what it would tackle

  The contours of an emerging budget deal would provide Congress with a way out of most of the coming landmines ahead of the 2016… Read More ›

We’ve never seen anything like this $5.2 billion energy deal

We’ve never seen anything like this $5.2 billion energy deal

  I wrote this summer about record amounts of investment capital being raised for natural resources. And this week we got some big news about where… Read More ›