ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Soon, the pizza you order from Domino’s might show up in a Ford Fusion hybrid without a driver. Domino’s and Ford will begin testing the concept Wednesday in Ann Arbor, where Domino’s is based, to see whether customers like the idea of driverless-car delivery or stumble over what amounts to a […]
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Travel and Food, USAA visiting assistant professor at the University of Tampa was “relieved of duty” after describing the destruction from Hurricane Harvey as “instant karma” for Texans who voted Republican last year, the school said Tuesday. Kenneth Storey, whose LinkedIn profile says he lives in Winter Park, Fla., and also teaches at Hillsborough Community College, ignited online
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USAImagine the scenario: Your house is underwater. You’re desperately looking for food and water for your family, and you finally find a store that’s open. But as you go to pay for what you need, one of the few human necessities — clean water — costs ten times what it normally does. RELATED: Joel Osteen’s
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USAHillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury. Ty Clevenger, the lawyer, has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal
Edwin Black’s latest 5–part investigative series, Hillel at the Crossroads, is based on more than 70 interviews in 4 countries, and the acquisition of many documents and internal emails. This is Part 1. By Edwin Black Part 1 of a continuing series WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Hillel International CEO Eric Fingerhut stands at the window of
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International, USALOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Joe Davis is 29, not even a full year older than Kirk Gibson’s home run. He is an active participant on social media, unlike his Hall of Fame predecessor, Vin Scully. As Scully once told his audience, talking about a tweet: “I called it a ‘twit.’ But I
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Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALior Lotan, who was in charge of efforts to return IDF soldiers’ bodies held by Hamas, says in recording he wants to play ‘with a full hand’ in talks By Alexander Fulbright Lior Lotan speaking to Channel 2 television in 2011. (screen capture:Channel 2) A former official appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oversee
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Middle EastSocial media criticized Pastor Joel Osteen for apparently not allowing misplaced Hurricane Harvey victims to use his massive Houston-based Lakewood church for shelter over the weekend. Many questioned why the wealthy pastor refused to house the victims or publicly donate funds to relief efforts. Osteen, 54, has an estimated net worth of $40 million, according
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USAThe yen rallied on Tuesday and Asian equity markets sank after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan, ratcheting up geopolitical tensions in the region. The rocket test is the latest in a series of recent provocations by Pyongyang, testing US President Donald Trump, his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-In and Japanese Prime Minister
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International, USAAn Indian judge on Monday handed a 20-year jail sentence to self-styled ‘godman’ Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, whose followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape on Friday. Prior to the verdict, tens of thousands of police had enforced a lockdown in large parts of the northern states of Haryana and
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InternationalWASHINGTON — On the 54th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, religious leaders and political activists staged separate marches here and in Charlottesville, Va., to call for many of the same things the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had championed in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In the nation’s capital on Monday,
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump seemed eager to field questions during a Monday news conference, defending his decision to pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, still insisting Mexico will pay for his promised border wall and again refusing to criticize Russia. The defense of Arpaio came amid a longer than expected news conference with Finnish
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International, USANearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right” rally joked about using vehicles to run over their opponents. That message and thousands of other conversations among white supremacists were leaked from a chat app called Discord
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USAHOUSTON — At least eight people are now dead in Tropical Storm Harvey’s assault on southeast Texas, authorities said Monday, as the nation’s fourth largest city remained awash in murky brown water that submerged highways, houses, shopping plazas and entire neighborhoods. More than 30,000 people in Houston and across the Gulf Coast were likely to
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