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2016As Kentucky and Oregon voters cast ballots Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders was locked in controversy with party leaders in Nevada over the conduct of his supporters at the state convention over the weekend.
Taliban militants join the Afghan reconciliation program in 2011. (Reuters)
De-radicalized extremists such as Faridoon Hanafi warn that the American-backed program's meager progress could soon be lost: “These people will find another way to get money, and negotiations will fail.”
The GOP candidate has repeatedly said he barely remembers Felix Sater, but the Russian-born businessman, in previously unreported sworn testimony reviewed by The Post, described a closer relationship.
The regulations, last updated more than a decade ago, would let full-time salaried employees earn overtime if they make up to $47,476 a year, more than double the current threshold.
Poor, black and Hispanic students are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers, according to data.
While athletes from 12 countries were implicated, the mass analysis of old urine samples from the 2008 Games was triggered solely because of allegations involving one country — Russia.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that a key provision of the law is likely unconstitutional, ordering police to stop requiring individuals to show “good reason” to obtain a permit to carry a firearm.
The legislation is now headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who has said she would almost certainly sign it. Sixteen other states have passed the restrictive ban.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s strategy is fueled by a desire to persuade voters that he’s nothing like the monster he believes his political adversaries and the media have portrayed him to be.
Activists worry that Kuwait's Bidun population might be forced to chose between moving to Comoros, a desperately poor African nation, or having even fewer rights in Kuwait.
William Backer helped devise the 1971 Coca-Cola commercial that appeared in the finale of “Mad Men.”
Prosecutors say Jason Stockley was caught saying “going to kill this [expletive], don’t you know it” during a high-speed chase that ended with him shooting Anthony Lamar Smith.
Only five bikers completed the ride to the small Upstate New York town Sunday. They were met by hundreds of protesters holding signs telling the bikers to stop harassing American Muslims and asking them to leave town.
