If it were up to former US President George W. Bush, a third member of the Republican family dynasty — his younger brother Jeb — would run for the White House. Jeb Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, has acknowledged he has not ruled out…
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US stocks Thursday opened slightly lower following mixed corporate earnings and economic data and ahead of Friday’s monthly jobs report. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 27.94 (0.17 percent) to 16,552.90, retreating from…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of a risk of genocide in South Sudan if the country’s four-month-old civil war is not stopped. “There are very disturbing leading indicators of the kind of ethnic, tribal, targeted nationalistic killings…
The NBA on Tuesday banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from professional basketball for life over racist comments that the league’s commissioner dubbed “deeply offensive and harmful.” Sterling, an 80-year-old real estate tycoon who bought…
The furor surrounding comments attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has again cast an unfavorable light on racism in American sport. Sixty-seven years after Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s “color line” when he went to bat…
A severe storm system threatened tens of millions of people in Mississippi and the US Southeast on Monday, a day after tornadoes killed 17, ripped up homes and flipped cars over in nearby states. A tornado swept through the northern city of Tupelo around…
Wary sponsors dropped their support for the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday as pressure mounted over racist remarks allegedly made by the NBA team’s owner, increasingly embattled Donald Sterling. The National Basketball Association said it would make…
Romantic comedy “The Other Woman” shrugged off a barrage of negative reviews to claim top spot at the North American box office this weekend, data showed Monday. The movie, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann as three women who gang up…
US stocks Monday finished mostly higher as investors absorbed new sanctions on Russia and looked ahead to a busy week of economic news and earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 87.28 points (0.53 percent) to 16,448.74. The broad-based…
President Barack Obama landed in the Philippines on Monday to cement new defence ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between US allies and China. Obama flew into Manila from Malaysia, hours after…