HomeAway, the NASDAQ-listed rival to Airbnb, has fully acquired Travelmob, the Asia-focused rental and listings site that it bought a majority stake in back two years ago, in an undisclosed deal that sharpens its focus on the Asia Pacific region. Read More
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"… one of the guys said that he had seen bones."
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Mark Zuckerberg has been learning Mandarin for some time, and it seems like the Facebook founder and CEO's language skills are picking up after he showed them off with a twenty minute speech done entirely in Chinese. Read More 
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GUATEMALA CITY — TV comic and self-styled outsider Jimmy Morales won election as Guatemala's next president Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger against the political class after huge anti-corruption protests helped oust the last government.
Morales claimed victory and his opponent, former first lady Sandra Torres, conceded defeat after ...
"Seriously?! Seriously?!"
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Gigi is now considered by Israeli founders and VCs one of the most coveted early stage investors. His portfolio includes many of the biggest names in Israeli companies like SimilarWeb, MyHeritage and Meerkat, just to name a few. Read More 
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Israel's many health tech startups are attracting unprecedented interest from abroad, with multinational medical giants looking to benefit from the country's ongoing hi-tech boom. Israel's health tech is spurred on by a global demand for innovative healthcare solutions, fueled by aging populations and struggling middle classes. Considering that life sciences alone… Read More 
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"Can you see how perverted that line of thinking is?"
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - With a majority of the Louisiana Legislature re-elected without opposition, back-room strategizing and open jockeying for leadership positions is well underway, months before a new term in office begins.
The largest outstanding question remains, however: Will lawmakers break with the traditions of the past and ...
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Fallon hurt his other hand in spill at a party in his honor on Saturday.
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Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO/ PR Disaster Martin Shkreli took to Reddit late Saturday night to tell his side of the story on the Daraprim drug scandal. His company is back in the public eye this weekend following news that a competitor has introduced a customizable $1 alternative to Turing's $750 pill. Shkreli is no stranger to making his opinions known on Twitter, but he outdid… Read More 
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"I have created tens of thousands of jobs…"
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American Banker wants to know whether the explosion in daily fantasy sports startups is creating "havens for money laundering." It's difficult to say. People have theorized that online betting is an ideal platform for money laundering, but few actual cases exist. As an exercise, I imagined how I would use DraftKings to launder money. Read More 
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Presidential nomination rivals tried their best Sunday to poke holes in Hillary Rodham Clinton's "best week" narrative, arguing that her political record will topple her front-runner status even as they refused to label her an "enemy" or say she outright rebuffed Republicans during last week's Capitol Hill showdown.
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"[Obama] hasn't backed up police officers from the minute he's gotten into office."
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) - Three legislative seats up for grabs next month in New York state are vacant because their previous occupant was brought down by corruption.
Yet the candidates who hope to replace them say corruption rarely surfaces in conversations with voters, many of whom aren't even aware of ...
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Ben Carson on Sunday pushed back against Donald Trump's claim that he lacks the energy to be president, as he defended Second Amendment rights and said he would "love to see" the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion overturned.
Mr. Carson stunned Mr. Trump by overtaking him in a pair ...
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"Yep, you found a way to insult liberals in this country."
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"[R]eligiously sanctioned gender discrimination."
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Owlet, a Hardware Battlefield darling, announced that they are going out of beta this weekend and will be available to new parents who want to make sure their wee ones are breathing at night. The announcement comes in conjunction with actual testimonials from parents who feel that Owlet saved their babies' lives. Wrote founder Jordan Monroe: Andrew, Pia, and Easton. These are the names… Read More 
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday defended his frequent absenteeism from the Senate floor as he campaigns for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, saying many of the votes he has missed were on bills that would be vetoed by President Obama, anyway.
"Unfortunately, too many of them are not meaningful," ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are taking yet another challenge to the law to the Supreme Court, and say they will be back with more if this one fails.
A new appeal being filed Monday by the Pacific Legal Foundation contends that the law ...
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"I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong."
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave has been ruled out against Illinois with an unspecified head injury.
Stave left the game late in the first quarter and did not return. He was sacked early by Illinois defensive end Carroll ...
An exhibit now at the Whitney Museum describes the classically trained African-American painter Archibald J. Motley as a "jazz-age modernist." It's an apt description for this painter of chromatically charged, practically rhythmic scenes of black nightlife. Motley was drawn to the carnival atmosphere of Chicago's "Black Belt," a district whose sidewalks were filled street preachers, pimps, couples out for a stroll, and lone men on the make.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - As the two men vying to be Louisiana's next governor move into the campaign ahead of a Nov. 21 runoff, they're asking the state's voters to decide who's more unpopular in the state: term-limited Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal or Democratic President Barack Obama.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter survived challenges Saturday from two GOP rivals who called his years-old prostitution scandal a stain on Louisiana, reaching a runoff against Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards in the governor's race.
The Nov. 21 runoff will decide who follows Republican ...
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"I don't think this climate has ever existed in the history of American policing."
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