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DETROIT — Kia has claimed the top spot in a survey of new vehicle quality for the second straight year. Genesis — a luxury brand owned by Hyundai Motor Co. — was second in J.D. Power’s annual initial quality survey. This marks the first time in the survey’s 30-year history that two Korean brands have

One-party solutions are not sustainable. As governors of Ohio and Colorado, respectively, we find the following principles necessary for effective reform.

Lethal drug was in heroin that he and his girlfriend had ingested, according to authorities.

What gives?

In addition to worrying about the deadline for raising the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has another very important date to remember: his wedding this Saturday to Louise Linton. While Treasury is keeping mum about the event, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross let the secret out while introducing Mnuchin at a conference this week in

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s government says it will supply sanitary pads to teenage girls enrolled in public schools. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday signed the act into law. Child rights groups say many girls in the East African nation skip at least four days a month because they cannot afford sanitary pads and want to

In what will most likely be verified as an act of terrorism, a police officer at a Michigan airport was stabbed ...

The heat wave hitting Southern California this week is one for the record books.

Artificial intelligence will be painful, but it brings with it opportunities, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma tells CNBC.

Cristiano Ronaldo set aside his legal troubles to score the winning goal for Portugal on Wednesday in a 1-0 victory over hosts Russia in the Confederations Cup

The 23-year-old has attracted interest from the Premier League as well as his homeland, but the Serie A champions will make the first move to sign him

The Exhibition, said that the movie has been in the works for some time and could begin production in 2018, the Associated Press reported. Because as you know, people go on and do other things. “I think there is potential for a film,” the actress who played Lady Mary Crawley told British newspaper The Telegraph. The experience features costumes and never-before-seen footage from the show.

The Associated Press and the Charlotte Observer filed legal motions Wednesday to gain access to documents and lift a gag order in the case of a North Carolina minister accused of orchestrating the beating of a congregant to expel his “homosexual demons.” The motions filed by the news outlets are related to the case of

Owners were most likely to complain about technology, including poor voice recognition systems, clunky navigation and problems pairing smartphones to their cars. Consumer Reports' auto testing director, Jake Fisher, says one reason Kia does well in such surveys is that it uses time-tested older technology from its sister brand, Hyundai. Quality improved in every category except for displays and controls, which saw an uptick in complaints about newer features like lane departure warning systems and blind spot detection.

If honesty were indeed the policy employed by most folks who attempt to piece together mock drafts, a lot of picks past the top 10 merely would be listed as NBC: No (Bleeping) Clue. But here is one stab, based on talks with executives, scouts, writers and bartenders across the country, at what may happen...

If honesty were indeed the policy employed by most folks who attempt to piece together mock drafts, a lot of picks past the top 10 merely would be listed as NBC: No (Bleeping) Clue. But here is one stab, based on talks with executives, scouts, writers and bartenders across the country, at what may happen...

“Doctor Who” Season 10 is bringing back a classic villain: the Cybermen. However, these aren’t the updated Cybermen we saw in the early seasons of the show’s revival. At star Peter Capaldi’s request, these are the Mondasian Cybermen, and episode 11 photos reveal that the vintage costumes can still be daunting.

NOAA

Millions of strange-looking glowing sea creatures called pyrosomes have started to "bloom" off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada, filling up fishing nets, clogging hooks and research gear, and befuddling scientists who have no idea why populations of the tube-like organisms are exploding, flooding the water column.

"Call it the invasion of the pyrosomes," writes Michael Milstein in a post on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Northwest Fisheries Science Center website. Читать дальше...

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- The United States will do its best to help South Korea win the release of its citizens detained in North Korea, the acting U.S. ambassador to Seoul said Wednesday in a meeting with the host country's new foreign minister.

Afghanistan’s Taliban released a new video Wednesday showing two professors, one American and one Australian, urging U.S. President Donald Trump to negotiate their freedom with the Islamist insurgent group. Sixty-year-old American Kevin King and 48-year-old Timothy Weeks of Australia, teachers with the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, were kidnapped at gunpoint near the campus last August. The Taliban wants freedom for its “soldiers” being held at the U.S.-run Bagram airbase and the... Читать дальше...