Russians flock to stores to pre-empt price rises
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Russian consumers flocked to the stores Wednesday, frantically buying a range of big-ticket items to pre-empt the price rises kicked off by the staggering fall in the…
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VANDALISM, LOOTING AFTER VIGIL FOR MISSOURI Michael Brown
By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR A man leaves a store on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. A few thousand people crammed a suburban St. Louis street Sunday…
TARGET TAKING ACTIONS ON SECURITY, EXECUTIVE SAYS
By MARCY GORDON Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, listens to the Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4,…
DISENROLLMENT LEAVES NATIVES ‘CULTURALLY HOMELESS’
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA Mia Prickett holds her Confederated Tribe of Grande Ronde enrollment card along with a recent notice of potential potential disenrollment from the tribe in Portland, Ore., Thursday,…
LEGAL RECREATIONAL POT INDUSTRY OPENS IN COLORADO
By KRISTEN WYATT Partygoers smoke marijuana, left, and cigarettes during a Prohibition-era themed New Year’s Eve party celebrating the start of retail pot sales, at a bar in Denver, late…
LACK OF CUSTOMERS DOOMS MANY CUBAN BUSINESSES
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and ANNE-MARIE GARCIA People talk as they stand in a street blocked by a broken down classic car in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The Associated…
ONLINE SHOPPING GROWS, WITH SOME GROWING PAINS
By MAE ANDERSON and SCOTT MAYEROWITZ FILE – In this Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, file photo, an Amazon.com employee stocks a shelf at an Amazon.com Fulfillment Center on “Cyber Monday”.…
ONLINE GAME ADDICTION LAW DIVIDES SKOREA
By YOUKYUNG LEE Screens advertising an online mobile game are displayed in a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. A law under consideration in South Korea’s…