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The Big 12 Conference is in advanced talks with an investment firm backed by RedBird Capital and Weatherford Capital for a $500 million cash injection, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal, via Collegiate Athletic Solutions, known...

Brown University alerted students of a reported active shooter on campus on Saturday."There's an active shooter near Barus & Holley Engineering," the school said in an emergency alert issued about 4:20 p.m."Lock doors, silence phones and stay hidden until...

A drone strike hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan on Saturday, killing six peacekeepers, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.The strike hit the peacekeeping logistics base in the city of Kadugli, in the central region...

One person is dead after a U-Haul truck appears to have accidentally exploded in a parking lot in Idaho early Saturday, according to officials.The explosion caused damage within the blast radius including to a Courtyard Marriott and Old Navy,...

Financial conditions in the agriculture economy are flashing more signs of strain as farmers’ costs remain high while prices for their crops stay low.A survey last month from the Chicago Fed found that third-quarter repayment rates in the Midwest...

Belarus has freed 123 prisoners after the US agreed to lift sanctions on the country.Some of those being released include prominent opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski.BBC Southern & Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford...

The Powerball jackpot prize has grown to $1 billion, a cash value of $457.7 million, for Saturday night's drawing.This is the game's seventh largest prize ever, according to Powerball. The largest prize ever was $2.04 billion won on Nov....

Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by a lone Islamic State gunman, the US military has said. Officials said three other service members were injured in the attack, during...

Two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed in an ambush by an apparent ISIS gunman in Syria Saturday, officials said. Source link

Two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed and three other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday by a lone member of the Islamic State group in central Syria, the the U.S. military’s Central Command said.The attack...