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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some of America's large cities seem to be getting safer and more dangerous at the same time. That's the conclusion of an Associated Press analysis of homicide data in Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis. In those cities, killings are becoming concentrated into small areas where people are dying at a pace not seen in years, if ever. Around them, many other neighborhoods are growing more peaceful, even as the total number of homicides rises. The AP collected 10 years of homicide... Читать дальше...

A trade union representing Ryanair pilots insisted Wednesday it would not rule out strikes if the Irish no-frills airline did not give it formal recognition within 24 hours.

Owners of the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox partnered with the University of Chicago Crime Lab, which evaluates how to reduce crime.

Antetokounmpo's Bucks held off James' Cavaliers, 119-116, on Tuesday night, with both players making big plays down the stretch.

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli has dethroned Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan to become the most valuable celebrity brand in the country, with a brand value of USD 144 million registering a growth of 56 per cent from last year, according to a report. This increase is primarily driven by his growing endorsement fees, on-field performances and rise in popularity index, according to the Duff & Phelps report Rise of the Millennials: India's Most Valuable Celebrity Brands. "For the first time since we began publishing our rankings... Читать дальше...

A long-standing tradition is reaching a big deadline this holiday season. The Prince George Spruce Kings and the Spruce Kings Show Home Lottery would like to remind everyone that the First Period Mega 50/50 sales will end on Boxing Day. Tickets purchased before 6:00 PM will be entered into the December 28th draw. First Period Mega 50/50 tickets are $25 each, and there’s up to a $50,000 prize available to the lucky winner, depending on the number of tickets sold. Tickets are available from the comfort... Читать дальше...

Most of the recommendations by the police end with nothing. More than 60% of them are thrown into the garbage and don't turn into an indictment. Often they turn out to be false recommendations against thousands of upstanding citizens and public servants - but in the meantime they destroy the lives of people...during this time they are spilling blood and causing damage to people's good names.... That person, [President Ruby Rivlin who had also once been under investigation] said: "who will give back... Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The alliance of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) have agreed with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) to begin the first round of the coalition talks on January 7, the parties said in a joint statement.

Johannesburg - The question of whether the African National Congress (ANC) integrity commission should have original powers to summon members of the party will be taken to the national general council for further discussion, ANC MP Mathole Motshekga said on Wednesday.

Im Jänner wird Österreichs neuer Teamchef viel auf Reisen sein. Für jene, die bei ihren Vereinen nur Reservisten sind, brechen noch härtere Zeiten an.

Bukarest (dpa) - Trotz Massenprotesten und Warnungen der EU hat Rumäniens obere Parlamentskammer (Senat) am Mittwoch zwei weitere Gesetze gebilligt, die die Freiheit der Justiz einschränken. Zusammen mit einer bereits am Vortag beschlossenen Neuregelung wird das Justizpaket dem Staatspräsidenten Klaus Iohannis nun zur Unterschrift vorgelegt. Iohannis hatte dieses von den Regierungsparteien PSD (Sozialdemokraten) und ALDE (Liberale) initiierte Paket im Vorfeld heftig kritisiert. «Es besteht ein offensichtliches Risiko... Читать дальше...

Europe’s top court dashed brand-jealous champagne producers’ hopes on Wednesday with a ruling that a sorbet sold by German discounter Aldi Sud could be labelled with the word champagne because it contained it. The five-year old case started when Aldi Sud sold the sorbet in its German stores marketed as “Champagner Sorbet”. It contained 12 per cent champagne. But that […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The fight to reinstate criminal charges against the engineer in a deadly 2015 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia will carry over into next year. A judge on Wednesday told prosecutors that she'll review Brandon Bostian's case and set a hearing for February. A different judge in September threw out involuntary manslaughter and other charges after finding evidence pointed to an accident. Eight people died and more than 200 people were injured when the train rounded a curve at more than twice the speed limit and derailed. Читать дальше...

Availability of coal stocks with the country's thermal power plants is expected to normalise to a large extent by mid-January as state owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) has been able to step up production and debottleneck its supply network to a large extent after freeing up the railway rakes.Senior company officials told Business Standard that while previously the company's average daily production stood at 1.4 million tonne (mt) a day, they were able to scale it up to 1.8 mt a day and in the next few days... Читать дальше...

Rund einen Monat nach dem Militärputsch in Simbabwe und dem Rücktritt des Langzeitpräsidenten Robert Mugabe hat dessen Nachfolger für nächstes Jahr freie und faire Wahlen versprochen. Die Regierung werde alles in ihrer Macht Stehende tun, damit die für 2018 geplanten Wahlen glaubwürdig und demokratisch würden, sagte Präsident Emmerson Mnangagwa am Mittwoch im Parlament.

Magic Leap offers a taste of a future that's still not here.

Magic Leap

• Magic Leap is a secretive Florida-based startup that raised $1.9 billion to make a pair of augmented-reality smartglasses.
• The glasses were finally unveiled on Wednesday morning — a huge reveal six years and $1.9 billion in the making.
• Rolling Stone was able to try the headset, and describes it as something that sounds very similar to Microsoft's HoloLens.

The next step after smartphones is almost certainly some form of "AR": Augmented Reality. Читать дальше...

“9 Things Not to Say to Someone With a Mental Illness During the Holidays” was published on The Mighty by Sarah Schuster.

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This hasn't been an easy year for the retail industry. 

More than 8,053 store closures were announced this year. Mall traffic has dropped, and retailers such as Payless, Rue21, and Toys R Us have struggled to compete with ecommerce rivals. 

For some companies, the pressure became too much. A growing list of retailers have declared bankruptcy.

Here are the most notable retail bankruptcies to happen in 2017: 

Charming Charlie

First-time 'Star Wars' director Rian Johnson responded quite diplomatically to the vicious online anger aimed at him.

"The O'Reilly Factor"/Fox News

• Bill O'Reilly has started publishing a "word of the day" on his Twitter account since losing his Fox News platform.
• The words are always presented in the same sentence: "Do not be a [word of the day] when writing to Bill@BillOReilly.com."
• The conservative commentator has also published a "tip of the day" in which he gives life advice.
• O'Reilly was ousted from Fox News after allegedly sexually harassing multiple women.
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A Republican state lawmaker in Minnesota argued this week that she should not meet with a group of high school students because by doing so she would risk being falsely accused of sexual misconduct.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who stole a cache of firearms from a gun shop and sent a rambling anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump before going on the run faces up to 20 years in federal prison when he is sentenced Wednesday. Joseph Jakubowski was convicted in September of two federal weapons charges stemming from the April 4 theft. His public defender, Joseph Bugni, told U.S. District Judge William Conley in a letter filed with the court Tuesday that Jakubowski plans to ask to be sentenced to death or set free. Читать дальше...

If 2017 didn’t already seem fraught, the US government has decided to lift a ban on the production of lethal viruses. The decision comes just three years after the decision to prohibit the intentional creation of deadly pathogens was instituted and scientists will now be allowed to modify and grow new strains of viruses as...

Police in the French Alps are re-examining a host of missing people cases after charging a man on Wednesday over a second abduction and murder in the area.