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Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. said late Friday it has named Martin Agard its new chief financial officer. Interim CFO Greg Whirley will remain with the Toano, Va., company as senior vice president of finance, the company said in a statement. Lumber Liquidators also said Christopher Thomsen has joined as chief information officer. Lumber Liquidators was under fire last year when 60 Minutes reported the company allegedly sold China-made wood flooring containing dangerous levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde. Читать дальше...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk is calling last week’s launch pad accident the “most difficult and complex failure” in the company’s 14-year history. After a week of public silence, Musk said via Twitter that the company is still investigating the accident, its second in just 15 months. A massive fireball erupted

Arshell (Trey) Dennis III was honored Friday with a Mass at St. John's University attended by his devastated dad and sister.

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Friday: Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc., down $1.80 to $15.60 Energy companies sank as the price of oil gave up some of its gains from a day ago. Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc., up $1.09 to $36.38 The furniture and housewares company reported second-quarter results that were

Cole Swindell, the 32-year-old Georgia singer who cut his teeth writing hits for Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line, is about to embark on the...

A Google Chrome update slated for Jan. 2017 will warn users against entering personal data such as passwords and credit card numbers on web sites that don't follow the HTTPS protocol for data encryption. While Chrome cannot forbid users from accessing HTTP sites, the web browser can advise them against doing so by marking them to be non-secure.

Following its massive International Army Games, Russia is staging a series of worrisome military exercises for neighboring Ukraine and other global powers. 

Warrington comfortably beat local rivals Widnes to give themselves a three-point cushion at the top of the Super League.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Friday:

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Friday:

Utility companies took big losses as bond yields jumped, which makes those stocks less appealing to investors seeking income. The grocery store chain made a modest recovery after reporting solid earnings. Enterprise Products Partners says it is no longer interested in a possible deal with the pipeline company.

PARIS — Three women behind a thwarted attack near Notre Dame Cathedral were radicalized by Islamic State commanders in Syria, and one had been engaged to an extremist who killed a priest in July, the Paris prosecutor said Friday. François Molins spoke a day after three women were dramatically arrested over the failed attack that centered on a car discovered Sunday morning in central Paris abandoned and loaded with gas canisters. “In the last few days and hours a terrorist cell was dismantled, composed... Читать дальше...

Five Oakland police officers an officer from another department and an ex-sheriff's deputy will be charged following a nearly year-long investigation.

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HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A long-term study of twins reveals physical activity may reduce the risk of cognitive decline later in life.

The Colts are going to be down a pair of cornerbacks for Sunday’s game against the Lions and the Lions have listed a pair of their top pass catchers as questionable for the contest. Wide receiver Golden Tate and tight end Eric Ebron both drew the tag on the team’s final injury report of the…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits down for an in-depth interview with NASCAR on NBC analyst Steve Letarte.

CINCINNATI — A newly installed ATM at an Ohio university is doling out the next best thing to money — pizza. Xavier (ZAYV’-yur) University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America. The company, Paline, says the machine will hold 70 pizzas at once. Each medium-sized

University of Nebraska regents will consider a salary increase for Hank Bounds next week that would pay the system president $510,400 this school year.

What does it mean to respect yourself and those around you? Respecting yourself is a vital part on the mission of loving who you are. You are beautiful and deserved to be loved and respected by you because you are unique. The word respect as a verb is defined as "to show regard or consideration for" (Dictionary). So are you truly showing regard and consideration for yourself and those around you with your actions and thoughts.

You might be asking yourself how do you learn to respect yourself... Читать дальше...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An elementary school music teacher who has lived under a cloud of suspicion since 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped from central Minnesota in 1989 can breathe easier now that another man has confessed to the boy's abduction…

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It might not be intentional, but there appears to be an arms race between the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to see who can gather more endorsements from military officials.

This week, both campaigns have released several statements about endorsements from US generals and admirals.

The first, from Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, came on Tuesday. The title of the news release was, "88 RETIRED U.S. GENERALS AND ADMIRALS ENDORSE TRUMP."... Читать дальше...

Following the entire drama that preceded the postponement of Edo election on Thursday, September 8, coalition of civil societies under the aegis of Situation Room have warned that Nigeria’s democracy is now endangered. Premium Times reports that the group made the observation on Friday, September 9 in a press statement it released about the entire […]

The hashtag #boytcottNFL began trending Friday on Twitter after upset sports fans shared their opinions about another athlete refusing to stand during the national anthem. Brandon Marshall of the Denver Broncos followed in the footsteps of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick by choosing not to stand Thursday night during the national anthem in the first game of the 2016 regular season.

The Supreme Court struck down ‘straight-ticket’ voting, prompting a million pot-bellied party bosses of yesteryear to snuff out their cigars in disgust. Sunday is the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the date when a naked and confused Alex Jones punched his way out of the embryonic pod deep beneath the earth from whence he came.  And Louis Gohmert took a break from making inflammatory statements about immigrants, staring directly at the sun and trying and failing to rub his stomach while patting his own head. Читать дальше...