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There's being an adventurous eater and there's being an adventurous eater.

IBM just hired Deborah DiSanzo to lead the company's all-important Watson Health unit.

A $28 billion Boston-based hedge fund could be in the unusual position of having to hand out refunds its investors at the end of the year. 

Presidential candidate and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) unleashed an increasingly searing series of Donald Trump burns during a speech on Thursday.

The trial of six police officers accused of killing Freddie Gray in the back of a police van will stay in Baltimore.

The NFL season opens Thursday night and every team's fan base still has hope that their team can win the Super Bowl. But in reality there are only six teams that have a legit shot to lift the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season.

It turns out the stock market hasn't gotten over its addiction to quantitative easing.

It's clear to anyone who has ever watched an Apple keynote address, the much balleyhood events where the company typically takes the wrap of its new products, that quite a bit of planning goes into them.

Though it's widely known that women own just 30% of US firms, the reasons why remain unclear.

Fort Pierce (United States) (AFP) - The Jolly Roger flying from the bow of the Schmitt family ship is a telling sign of what these modern buccaneers are after: Spanish gold.

Two recent surveys show business leaders think Trump is good for business but doesn't have a chance of winning in the GOP primaries.

The FTSE 100 just closed down 1.14%, or 71.32 points at 6157.69, after a pretty drab day.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Contestants in the 2016 Miss America pageant are hoping to stand out from their rivals during the last night of preliminary competition.

PHOENIX (AP) — The latest developments on a series of freeway shootings in the Phoenix area. All times local (PDT):

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Justin Gatlin will be 34 when the Rio Olympics roll around next year, but the controversial American sprinter insists he has no intention to hang up his spikes.

Humans have explored only a tiny, tiny fraction of the universe, so we can't rule out the possibility objects exist out there that we haven't seen yet — even giant planets right in our backyard.

A $10 million gift from a Saudi businessman will establish a center for the study of Islamic law at Yale Law School.

Little League is getting younger.

The organization announced Thursday it is changing its age requirement, phasing out 13-year-olds from the league.

Little League is changing its "age determination date" to Aug. 31, which will prevent anyone who turns 13 during the baseball season from playing in the league, beginning in 2018.

The current birthdate cutoff of Apr. 30 will remain in effect in 2016 and 2017 for players born on or before Aug. 31, 2005.

Little League officials... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says she's astonished by a judge's ruling that clears the way for a Republican challenge to President Obama's health care law to move ahead.

The Washington Post is blocking access to articles for users that have an ad blocker installed. BuzzFeed was the first to notice this occurrence and it can be independently verified by anyone with an ad blocking software who visits an article on washingtonpost.com. 

Los Angeles (AFP) - The comic book giant Marvel has added a Native American and a Korean-American teenager to its list of superheroes, pushing forth with its bid to diversify and smash racial boundaries.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss Florida won the swimsuit competition and Miss Louisiana took the talent portion of the second night of preliminaries in the Miss America pageant Wednesday night.

A look at what's happening all around the major leagues Thursday:

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AL EAST SHOWDOWN

David Price (14-5, 2.43 ERA) pitches for the first-place Blue Jays in the opener of a four-game series at Yankee Stadium. Trying to catch Toronto in the AL East, New York counters with impressive rookie Luis Severino, who is 3-2 with a 2.04 ERA in his first six major league starts.

MR. ZERO

Jake Arrieta, who leads the majors with 18 wins, is on the mound for the Chicago Cubs in Philadelphia. Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With little time and deep-pocketed opposition from oil interests, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats were forced on Wednesday to retreat from their ambitious proposal to address climate change by dropping a key mandate to cut California's petroleum use by 50 percent.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Reds star Joey Votto went ballistic after a called strike and got ejected, with teammates and even an umpire needing to hold him back Wednesday night in Cincinnati's 5-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.