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U.K., U.S. Hilton Reach $5.7B Hotel Sale Deal

LONDON – Britain’s Hilton Group Plc. on Thursday agreed to sell its hotels to its U.S. namesake Hilton Hotels Corp for 3.3 billion pounds ($5.7 billion) in an expected deal leaving the UK group with its gambling business Ladbrokes. In mid-October, the UK Hilton (HG.L) first announced it had received …

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Ex-Prof to Face Jury on Terror Charges

TAMPA, Fla. – Ten years ago, American student Alisa Flatow boarded a bus headed to a Gaza Strip (search) beach resort for a much-needed break from her studies. At the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom (search), a young man sat in a van loaded with explosives. As the bus approached, …

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FBI to Exhume Body of Emmett Till

CHICAGO – Nearly 50 years after 14-year-old Emmett Till’s (search) murder shocked a nation and galvanized the civil rights movement, his body will be exhumed as federal authorities attempt to determine who killed him, the FBI said Wednesday. Till’s body, buried in a cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip, …

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