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With rhetoric on immigrants, Trump risks teeing off golf industry

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s self-styled “fabulous world of golf” faces the possibility of being a lot less fabulous after his disparaging remarks about illegal immigrants. Trump now has 18 courses, with a string of major tournaments lined up at some. For a while, the Golf Channel ran a regular show called “Donald J. Trump’s Fabulous World of Golf.” He renovated the famous Doral course in Miami

Authentic Miami Vice Testarossa Up for Sale Again

-Man, the used Ferrari market must not be as strong as people thought it was: This 1986 Ferrari Testarossa, an original car used in the iconic TV show Miami Vice, is going up for sale for a third time at Mecum’s Monterey auction next month. – -The last time we checked in on this immaculate white vintage supercar, it was listed on eBay for a cool $1.75 million. That was in

The New Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Has Been Revealed, and People Are Flipping Out

– Paul Feig, director of the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, tweeted out a few pictures of the revamped Ecto-1 that the lady Ghostbusters will drive. It’s, uh, a lot different than the old one. – #whattheygonnadrive pic.twitter.com/bBLEhrfTEQ – — Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 8, 2015 – – Even to someone who hasn’t memorized the entire Ghostbusters canon, this is very obviously a completely different animal from the iconic 1959 Cadillac ambulance

Empire Building: BMW M235i vs. 1972 BMW 2002 tii

– Decades are measured by calendars, yet the eras they represent do not always fit neatly in the small boxes. Cultural historians, for example, usually peg the end of the 1960s at the infamous December 1969 Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, during which a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, acting as security, stabbed and killed a pistol-wielding member of the audience. We might ourselves look back 20

Tsipras calls for fair deal for Greece in EU parliament

By Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called in a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday for a fair deal to keep his country in the euro zone, acknowledging Greece’s own responsibility for its plight, after EU leaders gave him five days to come up with convincing reforms. The Greek government formally submitted a request for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism bailout

Iran says makes new proposal in nuclear talks, West unimpressed

By John Irish and Arshad Mohammed VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has offered “constructive solutions” to resolve disputes in nuclear talks with six major powers, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported on Wednesday, but Western officials suggested they had heard nothing new from Tehran. Iran and the powers are in the last stretch of talks to reach a final agreement to end a more than 12-year standoff over Iran’s nuclear

Both China and Taiwan have South China Sea obligations, says Beijing

Both China and Taiwan have an obligation to assert claims to the South China Sea, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in a sign of rare political agreement between the old foes on either side of the Taiwan Strait. Rivals China and Taiwan share claims to virtually the entire South China Sea, a legacy of the Chinese civil war when the Communists beat the Nationalists and took control of the

Out of sight but not power, Erdogan eyes snap Turkish election

By Ercan Gurses and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Delays in efforts to form a coalition government in Turkey are buying time for President Tayyip Erdogan, heightening the chances of a snap election which could see his AK Party regain its majority and leaving the opposition floundering. Opposition parties are as fragmented as ever, and Erdogan – from the shadows – is calculating how best to maintain his grip. The

Pope's 'homecoming' tour moves from Ecuador to Bolivia

By Girish Gupta and Philip Pullella QUITO (Reuters) – Pope Francis flies to Bolivia on Wednesday after drawing about 1.5 million people to Masses in Ecuador on the first leg of a “homecoming” tour, where he urged the world to take better care of the environment and the poor. The Argentine-born pontiff was spending his last few hours at a home for the elderly in Ecuador’s highland capital Quito and