WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s two largest newspaper groups are not sending journalists to cover the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because of a dispute with domestic broadcasting rights-holder Sky TV and the New Zealand Olympic Committee over accreditation terms they say will unfairly restrict coverage. NZME, which owns the New Zealand Herald, and
Mike Pence made an impassioned effort to unite Republicans around Donald Trump, billing him as a latter day Ronald Reagan on a raucous night at the party’s Cleveland convention. The GOP vice presidential nominee stepped up in an electric atmosphere in the Quicken Loans Arena shortly after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz exacerbated the party’s divides […]
Chris Christie ripped into Ted Cruz’s performance on the third night of the Republican National Convention, after the Texas senator was booed from the stage Wednesday night for declining to endorse Donald Trump. “I think it was awful. And quite frankly, I think it was something selfish,” the New Jersey governor told CNN’s Dana Bash. […]
Plus, an interesting VXX/SPY put hedge, a look at MEET, and another long-term bullish indicator checks in.
Kyle Larson scored his second career victory in the Camping World Truck Series.
Atheist. noun. One unconvinced about the God of his epoch.
I am supposing human ingenuity will arrest or repair human degradation of the planet, and even if a catastrophe does occur, a portion of humanity will persist and continue to evolve for hundreds of thousands of years. We mustn't think that we, or our great, great, great grandchildren, are special enough to cause or witness the death of our species.
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Following her controversial speech at the RNC, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," is getting a boost.
ENSCHEDE - Het aantal woningen met een zonne-installatie in Twente en het oostelijke deel van de Achterhoek is vorig jaar met 60 procent gestegen tot bijna 18.000. In 2008 waren dit er nog zo’n 736, zo blijkt uit cijfers afkomstig uit de Klimaatmonitor van Rijkswaterstaat.
A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens:
A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens:
A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens:
A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens:
CLEVELAND (AP) — Donald Trump opponents are planning more protests outside the Republican National Convention as the event reaches it finale, keeping thousands of police officers on heightened alert for one more day.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Donald Trump opponents are planning more protests outside the Republican National Convention as the event reaches it finale, keeping thousands of police officers on heightened alert for one more day. Among those arrested was Gregory "Joey" Johnson, whose torching of a flag at a GOP convention three decades ago led to the landmark 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said flag-burning is speech protected by the First Amendment. Moments after the flag was set on fire, officers charged... Читать дальше...
In his debut speech as the vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence touted his Hoosier roots and attacked Hillary Clinton, saying she "personifies the failed establishment." Photo: AP
Motivational speaker Brock Mealer will address the Republican National Convention on the primetime stage on Thursday. Mealer joins WSJ's Jerry Seib to discuss his story of conquering the odds to walk again following an automobile accident and why he's supporting presidential nominee Donald Trump. Photo: Associated Press
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares a three-month state of emergency on Wednesday following last week's failed coup.
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council holds its first informal poll Thursday on the dozen candidates competing to succeed Ban Ki-moon as secretary-general on Jan. 1. The 15 council members have decided to keep the vote secret — a sharp contrast to the informal “straw” polls 10 years ago which were made public and
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that other countries might be involved in July 15 coup attempt.
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CLEVELAND, July 20 (UPI) -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence addressed millions of Americans for the first time, presenting himself as a pragmatic conservative with a strong record on the economy.
Ted Cruz stunned Cleveland on Wednesday night by giving a non-endorsement of Donald Trump in which he clearly signaled his distance from the Republican nominee.
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