BOSTON (AP) – Racially-charged protests at the University of Missouri have energized students at other colleges to push for better treatment of black students. Missouri’s president resigned Monday after protesters accused him of ignoring racial attacks on students. At Yale, Michigan and other schools dealing with racial tensions, students say the Missouri case has emboldened…
(KTRS) – The world’s two largest brewers are combining, forming a company that will control nearly a third of the beer sold worldwide. Negotiations came to a close early Wednesday when the two sides agreed on a $105.5 billion deal–one of the largest corporate mergers ever. The merger combines parts of A-B InBev’s Budweiser, Bud…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge won’t give a new trial to four former security contractors convicted in a mass shooting of Iraqi civilians in 2007. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth denied the request in an order dated Tuesday, saying the “weight of evidence is heavily against the men.” The guards – State Department contractors…
NEW YORK (AP) – An estimated 13.5 million people watched the fourth Republican presidential debate of the season, making it the most-watched program in Fox Business Network’s history.. Focused primarily on economic issues, it was least-watched of the GOP debates, behind the 14 million who watched the third debate on CNBC. Before Tuesday’s debate, Fox…
Hawthorne was one of several hundred code talkers who joined the war effort to help stymie the Japanese by using Navajo words and letters transmitted over radios instead of traditional codes that the enemy continued to crack
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Starbucks is pushing back against accusations from GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and others that its minimalist holiday cup design is a slap at Christmas. In a statement Tuesday touting its 2015 Christmas coffee, Starbucks said it’s introducing this year’s exclusive blend on behalf of its 300,000 employees “from diverse ethnic backgrounds.”…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Maine’s attorney general is suing a protester who she says yelled so loudly outside a Planned Parenthood facility that he disrupted health care services there. Attorney General Janet Mills filed a complaint under the state’s civil rights act against 26-year-old Brian Ingalls, of Lisbon. She says he violated the rights of…
