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ANKARA - Turkey and the Netherlands have agreed to normalize ties, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Friday....

Target-date funds are billed as a one-stop retirement savings plan. But they are no cure-all....

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The Byrds' founding members Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman are touring this summer to mark the 50th anniversary of their watershed 1968 country-rock album...

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Los Angeles in 1910 was racked by labor strife, and a strike by the city's ironworkers did not sit well with the business community....

John Waters talks about his biggest hit,...

New images are released from the hit-and-run crash that killed a San Francisco pedicab driver in June....

WARSAW - Poles rushed to the shops in June as low unemployment and rising wages drove double-digit growth in retail sales, analysts said....

ROME - The Italian government has reached a deal on who should take charge of state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), a government source said on Friday, ending weeks of tension over...

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- Lloyds Bank is experiencing difficulties with its Faster Payments service, the lender said on Friday....

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Guto Parente's Brazilian satire, about a wealthy, and carnivorous, couple, premiered in Rotterdam and has just been accepted for Spain's Stiges fantasy festival....

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- India's Wipro Ltd beat first-quarter profit expectations on Friday buoyed by higher Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) revenue....

WASHINGTON - White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow blamed Chinese President Xi Jinping for a lack of progress over U.S-China trade talks, and warned that U.S....

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BEIJING - In the tense trade war with the United States, China's government has turned to an unlikely weapon: a cartoon bean. "Hi, everybody. I am a soybean....

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Ryan Murphy's latest FX drama, "Pose," set in the ballroom scene of New York in 1987, has already made television history by having the highest number of trans actors in series regular roles. Cast members and producers reflect on the show'...

Jennifer Hudson will be making a new movie "Memory" playing the "glamour cat" Grizabella in Universal and Working Title's big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved stage musical "Cats," TheWrap has learned. Tay...

U.S. stock-index futures struggle for direction on Friday, as investors wrestle with escalating tensions between the U.S. and major trading partners, though investors also focus on quarterly results from General Electric and Microsoft....

As the stock market works on nabbing a weekly win, one veteran Wall Street strategist is calling out the changes to the market's backdrop as a worrying "inward shift."...

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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Paolo Branco is not letting up in his pursuit of compensation over The Man Who Killed Don Quixote rights snafu. However, a statement sent to me today from the film's produ......

The Oakland Athletics released right-handed reliever Santiago Casilla on Thursday, five days after he was designated for assignment....

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday the effects of Greece's bailout package would not end on the day that the programme itself ends....

A video starring the former couple — who have a 19-year-old daughter together — is cracking up the internet....

Viacom has fired Paramount Television President Amy Powell....

Tiger Woods nearly took off a couple heads at the British Open....

Friday morning begins with a humid feel and cloudy skies for most. The afternoon will feature mainly sunny skies and another mild to warm afternoon with highs in the low 60s to low 90s....

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Israel passed a controversial new law granting advantages to Jewish-only communities and downgrading Arabic from an official language to one with "special status."...

Tom Hooper is directing the film based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical....

U.S. officials are sitting down with former members of the Taliban as they try to wind down America's longest war, three Taliban commanders tell NBC News.The sources said the talks took place in Afghanistan... Photo Credit: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Gett...

In what looks like a political power play, President Trump has decided that administrative law judges will no longer be chosen on the basis of merit....

According to a new poll, Americans want a centrist approach to immigration reform. Neither party is offering one....

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- Baker Hughes, the oilfield services company controlled by GE, reported a 2.4 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by a jump in service orders....

For every 10 minutes your engine is off, you prevent one pound of carbon dioxide from being released....

There's a lot of dismal news on global warming, but one reader finds its heartening to read about scientists who do the painstaking work of trying to save Florida's coral reef....

On July 9, 1968, the Lakers traded for Wilt Chamberlain, the reigning MVP of the league, adding him to a lineup that already included Elgin Baylor and Jerry West. No team would be more talented. No team would have more firepower. But it wasn't enough ...

Police officers and firefighters who get injured on the job deserve all the care and compensation they need to be made whole — questionable claims filed by some of their colleagues do a disservice to them....

Brave conservatives — and merely issuing statements condemning Trump while voting for his polices almost all of the time don't count as bravery — are nowhere to be found in Washington....

Stars Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and editor Alan Heim remember their work with choreographer and filmmaker Bob Fosse for a new retrospective at the UCLA Film and Television Archive....

An abortion is only ever needed precisely because a fetus is a living, developing human....