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Ted Cruz said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s recent practice of having audience members pledge their support for him sounds more like something a king would do, rather than a president. “Anyone who thinks you’re making a loyalty oath to some candidate fundamentally misunderstands this process,” Cruz told reporters during a stop in Raleigh, North Carolina, […]

A top general said more U.S. troops will be needed to retake key areas from ISIS and has sent recommendations outlining that request up the chain of command. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command, pointed to the need for “additional capability” to retake the […]

The investigation into the death of LaVoy Finicum, killed during the occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January, shows that the three fatal shots fired by Oregon State Police were justified “and, in fact, necessary,” Malheur County District Attorney Dan Norris said Tuesday. In total, eight shots were fired, the investigation showed. Oregon State […]

Americans are more confident they can get a job. Since September, the labor force participation rate — a measure how many people are working or looking for work — has increased. Even some people who gave up looking for jobs are restarting their searches. There are valid reasons for job seekers to feel more optimistic: […]

Ray Kurzweil, the celebrated American inventor who keeps predicting the future with scary accuracy, says computers will match — and possibly beat — human intelligence by 2029. Here’s the trick: By then, computers will possess emotions and personality. “When I talk about computers reaching human levels of intelligence, I’m not talking about logical intelligence,” Kurzweil […]

One hashtag, one tweet, one selfie. That’s all it takes to drastically change your life … for the worse. A new Syfy Network series called “The Internet ruined my life” highlights examples of the Internet gone wrong. Take Asian rights activist Suey Park. She created the hashtag #CancelColbert in response to a satirical segment on […]

Donald Trump faces a test of resilience on Tuesday as four more nominating contests, including the important Michigan battleground, unfold alongside a quickening last ditch-bid by his foes to slow his march to the Republican nomination. Democrat Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, hopes to register a win in Michigan to make a point about rival Bernie Sanders’ […]

Watch your back, QVC: Amazon is introducing a live TV show for home shoppers. Amazon is calling it “Style Code Live.” The company is not framing it as a competitor to QVC, Home Shopping Network or any of the similar channels that dot cable lineups. But it sure sounds like an attempt to spur purchases […]

Donald Trump blasts companies like Ford and Apple for manufacturing products outside the United States. He has even threatened to stop eating Oreo cookies because he found out some production was moving to Mexico from Chicago. But Trump does the same thing. Most Donald J. Trump ties are made in China. Some Donald J. Trump […]

A stabbing attack — carried out by a “terrorist,” according to authorities — along a popular oceanfront boardwalk around Tel Aviv left an American tourist dead and 10 other people wounded not far from where U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Tuesday. “In these moments, terror attacks are taking place in streets adjacent to […]

Maria Sharapova tested positive for a recently banned substance, meldonium, at January’s Australian Open and will be provisionally banned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) on March 12. A day after the bombshell news surrounding the world’s richest female athlete — the five-time grand slam winner’s estimated net worth is $195 million — we answer […]

State police at DuBois State police responded to a single-vehicle accident Friday on Interstate 80 west in Union Township. Further, a vehicle operated by Rodney Foster of Clearfield was traveling in the left-lane when a deer entered into the path of his vehicle. He was unable to avoid hitting the deer with his vehicle, and […]

Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed criticism of a new practice at his rallies that has been compared the “Heil” salute from Nazi Germany, dismissing the controversy as “ridiculous” before saying he would look into ending it. “I don’t know about the Hitler comparison. I hadn’t heard that, but it’s a terrible comparison. I’m not happy […]

An Indiana man who authorities say is a serial killer has been charged with five new counts of murder and 10 other crimes — including rape, attempted murder and criminal confinement, the Gary Police department said on Monday. Darren Vann, 44, was initially arrested in 2014 and charged with killing 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy and 35-year-old […]

The mothers of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, two men killed in high-profile shootings, knocked Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday for comments he made on Sunday about “ghettos” and African-American families. Asked during the CNN debate in Flint, Michigan, about what racial blind spots he had, Sanders said that many white Americans “don’t know […]

The naked truth of it is, Kim Kardashian doesn’t care what people think of her nude selfies. Unless, of course, that was her husband, Kanye West, hacking her Twitter account. On Monday, the reality star posted a picture of herself in the buff with black bars strategically placed and the caption “When you’re like I […]

Iran fired ballistic missiles Tuesday as part of drills to show the Middle Eastern country’s “deterrence power,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said, according to state news. The Revolutionary Guard said the missile tests exhibit Iran’s “full readiness to confront all kinds of threats against the Revolution, establishment and territorial integrity.” Tuesday’s Press TV report characterized the […]

A 16-year-old girl has been hospitalized with severe burns after a neighbor allegedly raped and set her on fire near New Delhi, police said. Police say the neighbor, around age 20, barged into the girl’s room at 2:30 a.m. Monday. After raping her, the suspect set her on fire, said Kiran Sivakumar, police superintendent of […]

At 7 a.m. sharp on a crisp Tuesday in February, thousands of men and women dressed in military uniforms pour out of dorms on a Texas college campus. The cadets fall into perfectly symmetrical lines and salute their leader. The faint sound of a bugle carries over a speaker. The commander yells orders, and each […]

Finally, a “breakthrough” in Europe’s migrant crisis. At least, that’s how German Chancellor Angela Merkel described a new proposal outlined in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday. After 12 hours of talks between European Union leaders and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, a deal was drawn up — and you’d be forgiven if it takes a moment […]

There’s one candidate in the 2016 presidential election who isn’t likely to make dick jokes: Hillary Clinton. That’s because she doesn’t have a penis. Arguably Donald Trump can somehow get away with an unprecedented degree of bad behavior because he’s Donald Trump. And arguably, Hillary Clinton has to mind her Ps and Qs and Ds—and […]

For those about to rock … (we’ll have to reschedule.) Legendary rock band AC/DC announced on its website that it will postpone some of its upcoming U.S. tour dates, as lead singer Brian Johnson has “been advised by his doctors to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss.” The band will make up the […]

A new study throws cold water on the popular idea that consumers can save themselves and the nation loads of money if they become savvier health care shoppers. The analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute focused on what consumers paid out of pocket, where comparison shopping can result in lower costs. The study found […]

China’s exports contracted sharply last month, deepening worries over slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. February exports shrank 20.6% from a year earlier to 821.8 billion yuan ($126 billion), according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs. That’s a steeper drop than the 6.6% contraction the previous month. China’s economy is now registering […]

In a move to stop what the U.S. military said was an imminent threat against U.S. troops and African peacekeeping forces in Somalia, a U.S. strike in Somalia killed as many as 150 suspected Al-Shabaab fighters, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon initially characterized the attack as a drone strike, but later clarified that the […]