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Toys R Us to hire 45,000 temp holiday staffers
Toys R Us is hiring 45,000 seasonal workers to staff up its pop up stores and help fulfill its expanded customer services, like shipping online ...
Immigrant requests strain consulates, schools
Schools in Yakima, Wash., are taking nearly a month to deliver transcripts to former students. The Mexican consulate in Denver introduced Saturday ...
Israel grinds to a halt for Jewish holy day
Israel ground almost to a halt Tuesday afternoon in preparation for Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day of the year. The country has completely closed ...
LA's red-carpet fashion gets filtered for shoppers
Style looks a little different when it comes through a Hollywood lens, and shoppers often like what they see. Sunday's Emmy Awards featured the first ...
Israeli rabbi to followers: Burn your iPhones
An influential ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi ordered his followers this week to burn their iPhones, the latest move in a campaign by the insular ...
Vogue publisher to open cafe outpost in Dubai
Vogue's fashion-loving fans will soon have a chance to drink in the magazine's aura at a new cafe in Dubai. The glossy's global publisher, Conde Nast ...
Skydiver aims for supersonic plunge on Oct. 8
The countdown is on for skydiver Felix Baumgartner. In just two weeks, Baumgartner will attempt to go supersonic when he jumps from a record altitude ...
Home prices rose in July in 20 major US cities
Home prices kept rising in July across the United States, buoyed by greater sales and fewer foreclosures. National home prices increased 1.2 percent ...
Iran ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq
After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iran's presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran's supreme ...
Einstein's brain is now interactive iPad app
The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds. While Albert Einstein's ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Gay marriage
The issue: On one aspect of whether same-sex couples should have the right to marry, both sides agree: The issue defines what kind of nation we are.
Park rumbles during annual SD buffalo roundup
Two-year-old Jameson Maxwell sat mesmerized Monday as nearly 1,000 bison rumbled across the prairie in western South Dakota, the massive creatures ...
Bieber mom Pattie Mallette writes of painful past
Pattie Mallette was 18, living in a home for pregnant girls after years of unrelenting sex abuse and depression when she gave birth to a boy she ...
Batali's NYC eatery Del Posto settles with workers
Workers at celebrity chef Mario Batali's New York City eatery Del Posto have settled a lawsuit against the restaurant with an agreement that gives ...
New York City hospitals cracking down on junk food
People nervously waiting around in New York City hospitals for loved ones to come out of surgery can't smoke. In a few months from now, they can't ...
Okla. Jazz Hall has around $60K in unpaid bills
Tulsa is famous for its own musical sound, a potent blend of rock and blues made famous by JJ Cale, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton. So, including Tulsa ...
Clifford the Big Red Dog feted on 50th birthday
School kids sang "Happy Birthday" and Scholastic unfurled a huge banner worthy of a big red dog from the roof of its headquarters Monday to fete ...
French vintners want US chateaux kept out of EU
Drinking a Bordeaux wine from a "chateau" is as French as swigging Kentucky bourbon is American. But now tempers are flaring across the vineyards of ...
Plight of 2 baby gorillas raises fears in Congo
The plight of two infant gorillas, rescued after being kidnapped from their wild families, highlights the dangers confronting the endangered Grauer's ...
Milan designers: Summer fashion should be fun
The looks were sheer and the message for next summer from Milan was crystal clear: Fashion should be fun. Many designers showing spring-summer ...
Philippines: Marcos clothes have no historic value
A Philippine official said Monday that a legendary collection of shoes and other possessions left behind by former first lady Imelda Marcos and her ...
Congo allows firm to hunt for oil in Virunga park
The Congo government authorizes the British firm SOCO to explore for oil in Virunga National Park in North Kivu province. Minister of Hydrocarbons ...
398 Unescorted Nigerian women held in Saudi Arabia
Nigerian officials say 398 Muslim women pilgrims traveling to Mecca were temporarily held at a Saudi Arabian airport for traveling without male ...
Prada first half profit up 60 percent
Luxury design house Prada SpA says its earnings rose 60 percent in the first six months of the year thanks to higher sales in Asia and to tourists in ...
Dutch Van Gogh Museum closes
The operation began moments after the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed Sunday evening. Men removed alarm tags from behind some of Vincent Van ...