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Donald Trump’s peculiar relationship with the truth — his penchant for promoting unfounded stories and conspiracies theories — represents not just a curious quirk or a character flaw. They are a much-practiced technique that has paid dividends as self-promotion in his business career and in his political rise. Over decades spent in the company of […]

A Nigerian man has told CNN he was surprised to learn that US President Donald Trump had read a few lines of his poetry at an event marking St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday. “My sister just brought the news to me. I didn’t want to believe what she said initially,” Albasheer Adam Alhassan, a Nigerian […]

Out with the old and in with the new? It’s good if you’re doing spring cleaning — and apparently some investors are doing that with their portfolios too. Software company MuleSoft debuted on the New York Stock Exchange Friday and surged nearly 50%. The strong performance from MuleSoft, which helps customers like Coca-Cola, Spotify and […]

Goldman Sachs might be flying high in the Trump era, but CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s paycheck has been trimmed. A filing made public on Friday shows that Blankfein took a 4% pay cut in 2016 due to the firm’s slumping revenue and a revamped compensation system that aims to hold senior executives more accountable. Goldman Sachs […]

JCPenney posted a list of the stores it plans to close this year. The department store chain announced in February that it’ll shutter up to 140 storefronts, and on Friday JCPenney revealed the names of 138 stores that are getting the ax. It’s just the latest sign of the struggles plaguing brick-and-mortar retailers as they […]

Thinx cofounder Miki Agrawal is breaking her silence about the recent allegations against her. On Tuesday, Racked blasted the startup, alleging below standard wages, poor benefits, and failure to practice the feminist ethos it preaches. It largely pointed the finger at Agrawal, who is not only the brains behind the period underwear’s brand, but also […]

Meals on Wheels received 50 times the typical amount of daily donations on Thursday after the White House proposed cuts to some of the program’s sources of funding, a spokesperson for the group said. Volunteer sign-ups also jumped, increasing by 500%, according to Jenny Bertolette, a spokeswoman for Meals on Wheels America. Bertolette said the […]

The accused White House fence jumper was on the White House south grounds for 15 minutes or more before he was caught Friday, a Secret Service source with knowledge of the matter told CNN Friday, and officials are investigating multiple failures that allowed it to happen. The source says Jonathan Tran set off several alarms, […]

Derek Walcott, the Caribbean poet and playwright who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for literature, died Friday. A native of St. Lucia, Walcott was 87. His publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, said he died after a lengthy illness. “In him, West Indian culture has found its great poet,” the Nobel Prize committee said in a […]

Three inmates who escaped through the ventilation system of a jail in the Oklahoma City area may be armed, authorities said Friday. The manhunt began after the men, who were locked up for property crimes, broke out of the Lincoln County Jail late Thursday and allegedly stole two pickup trucks in the city of Chandler, […]

On a sunny Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles Andrew Leander Wilson did something that seemed unbelievable to him; he walked outside on the sidewalk with only his family guarding him. “I’ve been inside for 32 years, three months and 14 days. It’s been that long,” Wilson told CNN. Wilson has been in prison all those […]

Eight crew members of a fuel tanker hijacked off the coast of Somalia earlier this week have been released unharmed without a ransom payment, according to the Sri Lankan government. It was the first major hijacking in the east African nation in almost five years, and had raised fears Somali pirates were back in action. […]

The bystander’s video starts with a chaotic scene: An ambulance runs through an intersection in New York, one of its doors open, lights flashing. It drags what appears to be a person trapped under the vehicle. Authorities say the person stuck under it was Yadira Arroyo, 44, an emergency medical technician who died in the […]

The Israeli military has said it struck several targets inside Syria early Friday morning, an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) statement said. Several anti-aircraft missiles were fired at the Israeli jets, the IDF said, including one missile that was shot down by an “aerial defense system.” The statement denied that the mission put Israeli civilians or […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday visited the demilitarized zone, the highly-fortified border between North and South Korea, becoming the most senior US official to visit the area since President Barack Obama in 2012. Tillerson met with some of the more than 28,000 US troops on the peninsula. South and North Korea are […]

In a country enduring miserable storms and deadly flooding, one woman has survived when it seemed impossible. Weeks of rain in Peru have caused rivers to rise and people to flee. At least 62 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after heavy rain continued its wave of destruction since the rainy season […]

The United Kingdom’s intelligence agency has strongly denied White House allegations it spied on US President Donald Trump on behalf of former President Barack Obama during the 2016 election. Speaking to the press on Thursday, White House Press secretary Sean Spicer read out claims, originally made on Tuesday on Fox News by legal analyst Andrew […]

The US military has disputed local claims that US airstrikes Thursday killed dozens of Syrian civilians attending prayers at a village mosque, saying instead that the strike targeted and killed al Qaeda militants. The local reports, which come via the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), say that the strike hit a mosque in […]

It’s reset time for the United States and Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials are heralding a new era in relations after watching their stock tumble in Washington under the Obama administration. And the Trump White House is signaling a strengthened partnership as it begins to reshape US involvement in the Middle East. The Saudis have begun […]

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has been on the job for less than a month, but the changes at the National Security Council already signal it will play a markedly different role under President Donald Trump than his predecessors. No decision makes that clearer than Dina Powell moving from the East Wing, where she advised […]

More than 21,000 pounds of frozen pizzas are being recalled due to possible listeria contamination, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Wednesday. RBR Meat Company Inc. recalled its Marketside supreme frozen pizza, which may have been “adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes,” according to FSIS. The pizzas were sold at select Walmart […]

The top official at USA Gymnastics resigned Thursday as the organization deals with a sexual abuse scandal involving a former team doctor. Steve Penny had been USA Gymnastics president and chief executive officer for the past 12 years. “My decision to step aside as CEO is solely to support the best interests of USA Gymnastics […]

She’s kept a low profile since leaving the White House, but former first lady Michelle Obama was back in the spotlight Thursday night, making an appearance on Fox’s “MasterChef Junior.” And yes, vegetables were involved. Obama was a special guest on the mystery challenge portion of the child cooking reality television competition. The episode was […]

Google Home wasn’t advertising the release of the new movie “Beauty and the Beast,” but that’s what many users thought. When some Google Home owners turned on their virtual assistants Thursday morning, the device delivered the usual weather forecast, calendar of events and other updates. And then they heard something else: “By the way, Disney’s […]

House Republicans on both ends of the ideological spectrum are clamoring to be heard by GOP leaders pushing forward on a possible vote on health care legislation next week. But the reality is that not everyone can get what they want from House Speaker Paul Ryan, who is trying to get the 216 Republicans he […]