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BERLIN (AP) — German officials presented mounting evidence Thursday that Anis Amri was behind the wheel of a truck that smashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, as authorities across Europe pressed ahead with their feverish manhunt for…

US President-elect Donald Trump met with top executives from Lockheed Martin and Boeing on Wednesday to begin negotiating for new aircraft that the incoming President previously criticized for 'out of control" costs.

Lakers guaranteed Deng $72 million over four years

A women’s basketball tournament in Somalia was denounced and declared “un-Islamic” by the Somali Religious Council Thursday, a tremendously influential force in the East African nation that is more than  99 percent Muslim.

Every day Sonia Talati presents the Daily Download, a quick hit of news and personal finance advice.

An amateur photographer in Algeria captured beautiful images of a rare phenomenon this week: the red and white swirl of snow dusting sand dunes in the Sahara.

Strategas Research Partners says its "Dividend Growth" basket has outperformed the S&P 500 by 10 percentage points this year.

Donald Trump tweeted about nuclear weapons on Thursday, and it went about as well as might be expected, with reporters hurriedly seeking explanations from his communications team, arms control experts puzzling over the president-elect’s cryptic words, and a fair amount of we’re-all-going-to-die-in-atomic-fire from Twitter users apparently not overfond of the incoming administration. “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” Trump wrote. Читать дальше...

Most Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton now want to see President-elect Donald Trump’s opponents doing whatever it takes to work against him, even if it means defying political norms, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two years into a pilot project that aggressively prosecutes domestic violence offenders, Maplewood and White Bear Lake authorities say they've seen more convictions, more trials and fewer downgraded charges.

(AP) — Two years into a pilot project that aggressively prosecutes domestic violence offenders, Maplewood and White Bear Lake authorities say they've seen more convictions, more trials and fewer downgraded charges. Officials tell the Pioneer Press (http://bit.ly/2igESaa ) those patterns won't change anytime soon because both suburbs allocated more funds to maintain their enhanced approach to such cases, requiring more thorough investigation, intense witness care and a willingness to go to court.

The world-record signing initially struggled for form on his return to Old Trafford but Rio Ferdinand believes a three-man midfield is helping him improve

(AP) — A suburban Philadelphia man has been sentenced to three to six years in prison after acknowledging he robbed the same gas station three times this year. Police say Grimm was a heroin addict and used a revolver during both robberies.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/2ikmNUL ) reports that Huffman, who has been a colonel and Supply Group commander in the National Guard, will become a vice wing commander with the 130th Airlift Wing, based at Yeager Airport. Huffman previously worked in the department's Abandoned Mine Lands Program, the Division of Water and Waste Management, the Office of Administration and the Mining Division.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to release thousands of pages of private emails does not end a dispute in Illinois about public access to such emails from him and other officials when they deal with government business.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to release thousands of pages of private emails does not end a dispute in Illinois about public access to such emails from him and other officials when they deal with government business. Emanuel announced late Wednesday that he had settled a lawsuit by a government watchdog group over emails from his personal accounts, but it allows him and his personal lawyer to decide which emails are public records and which are not. The emails clearly illustrate... Читать дальше...

A consortium is considering a formal offer to buy Championship club Bradford Bulls, the Rugby Football League confirm.

NEW YORK - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called for the United States to bolster its nuclear ar...

JERUSALEM — Israelis are finding a new campaign by their crusading health minister hard to swallow: In the name of proper nutrition, he has gone on the warpath against the nation’s beloved Hanukkah tradition of gorging on sugar-laden, deep-fried, jam-filled doughnuts. [...] for most Israelis, eating sufgania is as essential to celebrating Hanukkah as lighting the menorah and spinning the dreidel.

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NASA recently released this stunning animation of the dwarf planet Ceres' mysterious white spots that scientists have only just begun to understand. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown's plans to build two giant tunnels to move Northern California water southward moved one step closer to a final state and federal decision Thursday, with the state's release of a more than 90,000-page…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown's plans to build two giant tunnels to move Northern California water southward moved one step closer to a final state and federal decision Thursday, with the state's release of a more than 90,000-page…

Brown's earlier proposals to redo water delivery from the Sacramento near its meeting with the San Joaquin River include a canal plan rejected by voters in 1982, and a broader version of the tunnels that federal regulators objected to in 2014, saying it could threaten endangered species. Opponents include some Northern California water districts and farmers, and environmental groups, which fear losing more water and habitat for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and dozens of other native fish and other... Читать дальше...