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An unusually large fire has burned for two weeks on icy Greenland. Video provided by Newsy

Highlights from Neymar's first home game for Paris Saint-Germain.

Highlights from Neymar's first home game for Paris Saint-Germain.

The best season of Grigor Dimitrov's career continued on Sunday with the biggest title of his life.

Iran will not abandon its missile program and will continue activities related to the country's defense industry, Iran's new Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami said.

Iran will not abandon its missile program and will continue activities related to the country's defense industry, Iran's new Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami said.

Lebanon army advances against ISIL in border battle and has recaptured two thirds of the territory, says military.

BOSTON (AP) — Supporters of a small, conservative "free speech rally" held Saturday in Boston said that despite being outnumbered by tens of thousands of counterprotesters, their event was a success.

A total solar eclipse will occur in the United States for the first time since 1979 and people are traveling to states with the best view. Lindsey Granger has details.

All bets are still on.

Wearing shirts honoring victims of the recent attacks in Spain, Barcelona opened its Spanish league season with a comfortable 2-0 win over Real Betis on Sunday...

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A new hedge fund has raised over $100 million and plans to use troves of data from other managers to select its investments. 

Epsilon Asset Management plans to scrape decades of regulatory documents to analyze positions of other active managers and turn these into investment strategies for institutional clients, cofounder Faryan Amir-Ghassemi told Business Insider. 

“We want to use very large data sets to understand the behaviors of what active managers do and how that correlates to future performance,” he said. Читать дальше...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sunday gave a strong endorsement to the movement for removing monuments to leaders of the Confederacy and called for the electoral college to be abolished.

In the annals of the modern presidency, few chief executives have been as alone as President Trump appears now — shunned by major business leaders, at odds with his party’s congressional leadership and deeply estranged from more than half the nation.

In the annals of the modern presidency, few chief executives have been as alone as President Trump appears now — shunned by major business leaders, at odds with his party’s congressional leadership and deeply estranged from more than half the nation.

Een Indiase rechter heeft een vrouw de toestemming gegeven om te scheiden van haar man omdat die weigert een toilet te voorzien in hun huis. In

ALAN PARDEW: If United announce that Zlatan has signed on again later this week, it should be a relief for Lukaku. They could play together, but also it could take the weight off his shoulders.

ALAN PARDEW: If United announce that Zlatan has signed on again later this week, it should be a relief for Lukaku. They could play together, but also it could take the weight off his shoulders.

The Buffalo Bills signed tight end Rory Anderson and safety Adrian McDonald.

BOSTON — Supporters of a small, conservative “free speech rally” held Saturday in Boston said that despite being outnumbered by tens of thousands of counterprotesters, their event was a success. Demonstrators protesting against racism and white supremacy had descended upon historic Boston Common, dwarfing the rally’s few dozen attendees and leading to what appeared to

(ATTN: UPDATES with additional remarks, more information from 4th para; ADDS photo) SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in on Sunday reaffirmed his efforts to create new quality jobs, especially for the youth, calling it a part of efforts to

Jack Randall, Robinhood

• Robinhood, the $1.3 billion San Francisco brokerage firm, is known for introducing zero-commission trades.
  
• Cofounder Baiju Bhatt told Business Insider that his company, which is popular with millennials, will never lose sight of the first-time investor.
• The startup recently said its user base surpassed 2 million.

When Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev founded their online brokerage, Robinhood, in 2013, they did so with the intention... Читать дальше...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It took the bottom of a makeshift lineup filled with mostly with backups for the Kansas City Royals to finally put some runs on the board against the Cleveland Indians. Jorge Bonifacio had three hits to start rallies, fill-in third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert homered and drove in three runs, and Alcides

U.S. President Donald Trump will outline the United States' "path forward" in Afghanistan in a speech Monday night. Trump will "provide an update on the path forward for America's engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia" in an address to be delivered at 0100 UTC Tuesday from the military base at Fort Myer southwest of the capital, the White House said in a statement.   Trump to Detail Changes to Afghan Policy: On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Trump had made a decision on the new strategy in Afghanistan... Читать дальше...