The president boasted Monday that U.S. stocks have risen 25% on his watch. By Phil van Doorn.
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Israel uncovers Roman structure at foot of Jerusalem's Western Wall
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday unveiled a newly unearthed section of the Western Wall and the first Roman public structure ever discovered in the city, they said. Archaeologist Joe Uziel said he and his colleagues knew the wall section was there and had expected to find a Roman street at its base. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which conducted the two-year dig, said that historical sources mentioned such structures but in 150 years of modern archaeological research in the city none had been found.
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British piers, Alabama buildings named among 25 at-risk monuments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – From a Syrian bazaar and the last active synagogue in Alexandria, to England’s Blackpool Piers and Alabama civil rights buildings, historical gems around the globe are threatened…
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Advice from police chiefs who dealt with mass shootings
Starting pitchers do matter in October! Why the Hill-Lester matchup is so important
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Death toll rises to 231 in Somalia truck bomb attack
Forty dead, neighborhoods burned to ash in California fires
By Heather Somerville SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Dry, warm gusts of wind are forecast for Sunday as firefighters continue to grapple with the deadliest blazes in California’s history, which have killed at least 40 people and reduced entire neighborhoods to ash. More than 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters battled 16 major wildfires in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed some 214,000 acres (86,000 hectares), or roughly 334 square miles (865 sq km) – an area larger than New York City. Arid winds would eventually die down on Sunday afternoon, the National Weather Service said, but no rain was forecast to fall on the fires till Wednesday.
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The Wright stuff: Avant-garde architect as subject of traditional opera
UrbanArias presents Daron Hagen’s warm backward look at Frank Lloyd Wright in “Shining Brow.”
Fruit, prawns off the menu at China’s austere party Congress
BEIJING (Reuters) – No free fruit in hotel rooms, no free hair cuts and no prawns on the menu – delegates at this week’s Communist Party Congress in China can expect austere treatment in keeping with…
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Girl, 8, dies in cruise ship fall
An 8-year-old girl died Saturday after falling from a cruise ship’s interior atrium to a lower deck, the Miami-Dade Police Department said.
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