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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Meyers, the star forward who led UCLA to the 1975 NCAA basketball championship as the lone senior in coach John Wooden's final season and later played for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, died Friday. He was 62.

As tensions over Dadri lynching incident refuse to subside, a mob in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri on Friday almost lynched four men accused of killing and skinning a cow.

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A group of students at Pittsville Elementary School in Wood County have been getting an intensive civics lesson − one that’s lasted eight years so far, but one that I hope will be coming to a …

Despite their stance, the Conservatives haven’t lost support among immigrants and other minorities

Ten days into a Russian military campaign that has upended U.S. policy in Syria, President Barack Obama is picking from two bad options for how to respond.

Woman attacked with axe taken to hospital.

Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who shoved President Reagan into the back of the presidential limousine and ordered the car to the hospital during the 1981 assassination attempt, died Friday at a hospice in Washington. He was 85.

By Derek Harper, The Sports Xchange
Arizona Cardinals (3-1) at Detroit Lions (0-4)

BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea appears to have delayed the start of a massive military parade marking a key anniversary on Saturday, apparently due to heavy rain, Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV reported from Pyongyang. The military parade wa

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By Yoo Jee-ho INCHEON, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- Bae Sang-moon, the only South Korean at this year's Presidents Cup, will be reunited with his Japanese teammate Hideki Matsuyama for the afternoon four-ball session on Saturday. The International duo will

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Russia will not cut budget funds allocated for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Anton Chekhov, Letter to Lazarev-Gruzinsky

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One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
Anton Chekhov, Letter to Lazarev-Gruzinsky

Once again we are confronted with a school shooting, the 45th in 2015 and the 142nd since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. We have, of course, grown accustomed to shootings in which four or more people are killed in one incident. Those events are considered to be mass shootings by Mass Shooting Tracker, a group that studies these events. Читать дальше...

Also, how come an "Arab-ish" genie deals out Yiddish-isms?

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OMAHA -- Taylor Swift has the total package. She writes her songs, sings them, plays guitar and keyboards, knows how to put on a show and really, really connects with her fans.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Maya Moore had plenty of time to make the final shot. The Minnesota Lynx had to wait a whole lot longer to celebrate the winner

Just days after being named permanent chief executive of Twitter, Dorsey is planning a series of cost-cutting maneuvers at the social networking company, including layoffs and halting a plan to expand the company’s San Francisco’s headquarters, according to three people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details are private. The plans to cut back both space and staffing are part of an effort to trim what many insiders see as an organization that has grown bloated ... Читать дальше...