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NEW YORK (AP) — Breanna Stewart now can add the WNBA's top selling jersey to a year that already includes an NCAA championship and an Olympic gold medal.

NEW YORK (AP) — Breanna Stewart now can add the WNBA's top selling jersey to a year that already includes an NCAA championship and an Olympic gold medal.

The messaging service WhatsApp will start sharing phone numbers and other user data with Facebook Inc., a moneymaking strategy that strays from its promise that little would change when the app was acquired by the social network in 2014.

The messaging service WhatsApp will start sharing phone numbers and other user data with Facebook Inc., a moneymaking strategy that strays from its promise that little would change when the app was acquired by the social network in 2014.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will deliver the keynote speech on Friday, but she may struggle to convince financial markets she can steer a divided U.S. central bank to raise interest rates at least once in 2016 after it started the year with four hikes on its radar. “We still have got this disconnect between markets and the Fed,” St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told reporters last week. “Clearly, the Fed is in the driver’s seat.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state senator from Gothenburg has joined the race to become the Nebraska Legislature's next speaker.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state senator from Gothenburg has joined the race to become the Nebraska Legislature's next speaker.

Lauren Darlington looked every bit the sweet 16-year-old with a mouth full of braces when her mum forged her birth certificate so she could work as a prostitute. Seven years later she is real, raw about her demons, blogging to touch others.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal government and others who sued to overturn North Carolina's voter identification law have told the U.S. Supreme Court that keeping the photo ID mandate in place for the November elections would harm black voters…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal government and others who sued to overturn North Carolina's voter identification law have told the U.S. Supreme Court that keeping the photo ID mandate in place for the November elections would harm black voters…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal government and others who sued to overturn North Carolina's voter identification law have told the U.S. Supreme Court that keeping the photo ID mandate in place for the November elections would harm black voters…

John Cox, a pilot who once served as the executive air safety chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association, doesn't necessarily think Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed in a "death dive." Speaking exclusively with The Australian, Cox said investigators didn't have enough evidence to pinpoint a reason for the plane's crash in March 2014.

It's a blue day for Aaliyah fans everywhere. The talented singer and actress passed away on this day back in 2001, in a highly unfortunate plane crash in The Bahamas. So much time has...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee plans to begin offering early voting on Oct. 10 along with extended evening and weekend hours, the city's chief election officer said Thursday.

Change in America is a funny thing. It took two centuries for the country to agree that a black woman could marry a white man. On the other hand, same-sex marriage bans collapsed just a decade after the first state awarded recognition to gay couples. And there’s new evidence that national views are swinging even more quickly when it comes transgender Americans.

NORTH BERWICK, Maine (AP) — The Latest on comments by Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage (all times local):

NORTH BERWICK, Maine (AP) — The Latest on comments by Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage (all times local):

NORTH BERWICK, Maine (AP) — The Latest on comments by Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage (all times local):

Outspoken Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage is standing by comments he made about black and Hispanic drug dealers in the state, saying his statement wasn't racist and neither is he. The white governor said at a Wednesday town hall meeting in North Berwick he keeps a binder of photographs of arrested heroin dealers in the state and more than 90 percent of them are black or Hispanic. The daughter of Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage has been hired by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate Mike Pence. Читать дальше...

Kansas City Fed Esther George said Thursday it was time to begin raising interest rates.

To get even more gains, the economy must not rebound as expected from a dismal second quarter