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Jury selection resumed Tuesday in the trial of a Baltimore Police Department officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Officer William Porter is the first of six city police officers to go on trial in the closely watched case involving Gray, a 25-year-old black detainee who died after being shackled and placed without a […]

President Barack Obama has long made clear he wants action on climate change to be part of his legacy, and Tuesday in Paris he raised the stakes. A successful outcome for the United Nations climate talks will include a “legally binding” mechanism to ensure countries adhere to their carbon reduction commitments, Obama said at a […]

CLEARFIELD – Christmastime is here, and The Clearfield Arts Studio Theatre wants you to be part of the happiness and cheer. Over the past several weeks, area elementary age children have been preparing “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” This holiday classic, written by Charles Schultz, with music by Vince Guaraldi, comes to life in this faithful stage adaptation […]

Cyber Monday was the biggest e-commerce sales day ever. Data collected by Adobe found online orders totaled $3.07 billion. The previous record was set last week on Black Friday, when $2.74 billion worth of merchandise was sold. The sales total also marks a 16% increase from Cyber Monday last year. Adobe says hot-ticket toys and […]

Coal is getting too dirty for Wall Street to touch. After years of pressure from climate activists, a growing number of big banks are now pledging to cut financing to the increasingly-risky coal industry. Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo became the latest to say the coal industry can no longer count on them to bankroll […]

The Bank of England has revealed its doomsday scenario. And it turns out it’s not that far from reality. The central bank published Tuesday the results of its latest test of how the biggest U.K. banks would cope with a serious economic shock. The bank said its scenario, designed in December 2014, “does not encapsulate […]

After a gunman murdered three at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last week House Speaker Paul Ryan said it’s time for Congress to take action on mental health issues. “Clearly we can do more,” Ryan said Tuesday, adding, “one common denominator in these tragedies is mental illness. That’s why we need to look at fixing […]

An explosion rocked an intersection a near subway station Tuesday evening in Turkey’s most populous city, Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu Agency reported. Five people were injured in the blast in Istanbul’s Bayrampasa district, said Atilla Aydiner, the district mayor. There was conflicting information about the cause of the explosion. Aydiner, speaking to Turkish television, said a […]

On World AIDS Day, Democratic presidential candidates on Tuesday highlighted the need to make HIV and AIDS medications more affordable and accessible. “The biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem — the crisis is access to affordable drugs,” Bernie Sanders said in a statement. “People […]

The way pilots responded to a technical malfunction resulted in the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, investigators said Tuesday. The plane was en route to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on December 28 last year when it crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board. The plane’s flight control computer […]

Worried about a significant uptick in infant deaths, doctors want parents to stop using crib bumpers. The number of babies who have died because of this common crib bedding has tripled in the last seven years of data available. That’s according to authors of a study that looked at infant deaths since 1985. Between 1985 […]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she wants to involve the Russians as much as possible in Syria, especially since they now have felt the wrath of ISIS. The Democratic front-runner told CBS in an interview aired Tuesday that the Russians should be more willing to fight ISIS since the terror group claimed responsibility […]

Drug maker Imprimis Pharmaceuticals just found a backer to distribute its $1 alternative to Daraprim, the infection-fighting drug whose price was hiked 5,000% by Turing Pharmaceuticals. Express Scripts, a major manager of prescription drugs, announced Tuesday that it will offer patients the low-cost Imprimis drug, instead of Daraprim, starting as soon as this week. Express […]

Double MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez wants to put his bitter feud with Valentino Rossi behind him, and says he has offered his hand to the Italian great. “The relationship with Valentino was really good until Thursday (before) Malaysia,” the Spaniard told CNN. “I think there he created so much more of what was not […]

Double MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez wants to put his bitter feud with Valentino Rossi behind him, and says he has offered his hand to the Italian great. “The relationship with Valentino was really good until Thursday (before) Malaysia,” the Spaniard told CNN. “I think there he created so much more of what was not […]

Never mind the critics: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the second novel by reclusive author Harper Lee, is a hit with readers. The voting readers of Goodreads, the free website where readers share their reviews and recommendations with other bibliophiles, picked Lee’s prequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird” as the best fiction book of 2015. Lee’s […]

Swords, a portrait of a prince and a floor-length cape — these are just a few of the oddly captivating gifts President Barack Obama and his family received from an assortment of world leaders and foreign dignitaries in 2014. The high-priced haul of several hundred presents, which was made public by the State Department last […]

It’s that giving time of year, when chain stores and downtown districts hang up their Christmas ornaments to convince us to buy an endless list of presents for our loved ones. Do you feel a disconnect this year? Buying lots of stuff may seem at odds with the suffering of those who have nothing or […]

Leaders gathered in Paris to forge a deal on climate change are acting out of economic self-interest, not a desire to “save the planet,” U.N. Climate Chief Christiana Figueres told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “Let us be very clear,” she said. “They’re doing it for what I think is a much more powerful political […]

Embroiled in a political firestorm over his city’s handling of a shocking police shooting, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is seeking to mend fences. Tuesday morning, Emanuel will announce the creation of a task force on police accountability, his office said. The task force will review how the city trains its police officers and the kind […]

The holiday spirit hit one Minnesota couple in a big way over the weekend. They dropped a $500,000 check into the Salvation Army kettle at a Cub Foods in Rosemount, Minnesota, on Saturday. Yes, you read that right. Half-a-million dollars. The couple wants to remain anonymous. They told the agency that they hoped their large […]

Time Warner Cable customers in three states hoping to jump into Cyber Monday sales experienced problems getting online. “[S]ome customers in Ohio, Wisconsin and Kentucky experienced intermittent Internet connection issues,” said a company spokesperson. However, she indicated the issue was resolved by later that night. Earlier in the evening, Time Warner Cable acknowledged in a […]

We’re surrounded by shades of deep green, hiking up hill, following the rhythmic sound of machete slicing a small path through thick forest. “We’re two minutes away now,” says Virunga National Park’s southern sector head Innocent Mburanumwe. “Actually maybe one minute,” he corrects himself. Time to put on our masks. Mountain gorillas share 98% of […]

A photo of a woman nursing her baby in a crowded Beijing subway train has unleashed a furious — and some say much needed — debate over breastfeeding in public in China. A passenger posted the original photo on Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter, with the caption: “Let me remind you — this is a […]

Its star-studded safety videos show the airline making happy customers of everyone from hulking sports stars to pocket-sized hobbits. But Air New Zealand isn’t just leading the way in viral hits. Australia-based website AirlineRatings.com has named Air New Zealand the 2016 Airline of the Year in its prestigious Airline Excellence Awards. The “industry trendsetter” was […]