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DETROIT (AP) — Salvador Salort-Pons, the Detroit Institute of Arts' executive director of collection strategies and information who has played a key role in the museum's strategic planning pro…

"The United States enjoys the most productive and abundant food supply on Earth, so too much of this food goes to waste," Vilsack said in New York City, where he was joined by food-industry representatives and officials from the Environmental Protection Agency. Leslie Sarasin, president and CEO of the Food Marketing Institute, a food retailers' trade association, said the industry supports cutting food waste because it operates on a "razor-thin" margin of 1 or 2 percent. "Reducing food waste at all levels in the food chain ... Читать дальше...

Nabiullina received the award for skillfully fighting the economic crisis

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera will consider selling naming rights to its building at Lincoln Center and plans to approach its unions about instituting Sunday performances.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera will consider selling naming rights to its building at Lincoln Center and plans to approach its unions about instituting Sunday performances.

Police say a 7-hour standoff with a retired military man who was holding his family against their will has ended peacefully.

WE’RE down to the last two Bachelorettes, and it’s pretty clear who the favourite is, because Sam’s hands couldn’t behave.

Stocks posted solid gains Wednesday ahead of a closely watched decision by the Federal Reserve on whether or not to raise interest rates. Beer companies rose on word of a possible deal between two giant brewers, and energy stocks rose sharply following a big jump in the price of oil. The Nasdaq composite rose 28.72 points, or 0.6 percent, to 4,889.24.

Three people are being held in the Monroe County Jail after a methamphetamine bust in Sparta Sunday.

The rich have made a killing off QE. Next time it should be injected directly into the veins of the real economy

Strategies kids are taught to defang schoolyard brutes might just do the trick.

Samar paid five hundred dollars to cross from Turkey to the north shore of Lesvos, in Greece, on a flimsy seven-metre dinghy with her two children and sixty-two other people. When she arrived, a Belgian woman took pity on her, and drove Samar and her children to Mytilene, the capital of the island. The drive takes about an hour and a half, on winding mountain roads, and is more than forty miles. Samar was lucky. She had paid less than half what most of the refugees and migrants arriving in Greece today pay... Читать дальше...

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State conducted 14 airstrikes against the terrorist group’s targets in Iraq and Syria, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a release on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell again in July as China, the biggest foreign owner of U.S. government debt, cut back its holdings. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has been employing emergency measures to keep the government's total borrowing beneath the current debt ceiling of $18.1 trillion. In August 2011, Standard & Poor's downgraded the nation's credit rating for the first time in history because of a prolonged standoff over passing a new debt limit.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to confirm whether he will kneel to the Queen when he becomes a member of the Privy Council.

Geneva police have arrested a man suspected of being the most wanted bank robber in Canada, known as “The Vaulter” for leaping over tellers' counters.

The first flight from Bhopal to Saudi Arabia for Haj pilgrims will take off from here on Thursday.

Blues cruise at home as they brush aside Israeli minnows.

The U.S.’s Syria strategy came under a scorching attack in the Senate on Wednesday as lawmakers questioned the Pentagon’s claims of progress against Islamic State and ridiculed the U.S. program to train and equip handpicked Syrians to fight the terrorist group--an effort that by the Pentagon’s own admission now has only “four or five” fighters on the battlefield.

Hundreds of reporters and political operatives have descended on Simi Valley, California, where they are feverishly making last minute preparations fo

David Miliband, now the president of the International Rescue Committee, recently visited the Greek island of Lesbos, where thousands of migrants are arriving by boat from Turkey.

Flash flooding in Utah has killed at least 17 people this week. High water and swift currents are hindering the search for other people who are missing.

Fifteen Republican presidential candidates will be at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California for the second debate Wednesday night.

The 33-year-old busboy and rock climber had never earned more than $10,000 a year until Monday night, when he hustled and muscled his way from crags to riches and earned a $1 million payday as the first-ever winner of NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior.”