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Much has been written about how President Trump’s election has had a profound impact on the Republican party. What’s drawn less attention — but deserves more! — is how Trump is affecting Democrats. Sure, we’ve seen coverage of how Trump’s election has emboldened the liberal left whose call for confrontation at all times has become […]

Members of a Senate subcommittee will hear for the first time Monday from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, whose testimony is expected to focus on what she told President Donald Trump’s aides about former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Lawmakers have been wrangling behind the scenes at the Capitol to bring in Yates ever […]

A beach that was washed away by storms more than 30 years ago has reappeared off the west coast of Ireland. The sands at Dooagh on County Mayo’s Achill Island vanished in the winter of 1984, leaving nothing but bare rock and rock pools. But over the course of a few days in April 2017 […]

On Saturday, Kim Mi-ok waited in a Chinese border city for her husband to step off the train from North Korea. He never emerged. “I waited until the last passenger. I waited until the train doors closed, but I couldn’t find him,” Kim said. The next day, North Korea’s state news agency announced security services […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Washington on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine, Syria and bilateral issues, the State Department announced Monday. “On Ukraine, the sides will discuss the need to stop the violence in eastern Ukraine and resolve the conflict through the full implementation of the Minsk […]

Tiffany Trump, President Donald Trump’s youngest daughter, has been accepted to Georgetown Law’s class of 2020, a representative for the Trump family confirmed to CNN. The first daughter, a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, will attend classes beginning in the fall. Georgetown’s law program is one of the top in the country, ranked […]

The retailpocalypse for some well-known American stores could continue this week. Struggling chains Macy’s, Kohl’s and JCPenney are all due to report their latest quarterly results. They are unlikely to be good. Analysts are predicting another quarterly loss for JCPenney when it reports on Friday. Meanwhile, sales and profits are expected to fall at Macy’s […]

Two Boston doctors, who were engaged, were found dead in their penthouse apartment Friday, according to law enforcement. Richard Field, 49 and Lina Bolanos, 38, were both anesthesiologists at Boston-area practices, according to the couples’ respective employers. Police arrested suspect Bampumim Teixeira, 30, after receiving a 911 call reporting a person with a gun on […]

This could be the beginning of the end for all those mind-numbing online account registrations. Germany’s corporate giants are promising a brave new future in the form of a single account — one that will let you do your online shopping, get a flight and rent a car, all with no more registrations or repetitive […]

Former President Barack Obama had a blunt message for his successor on Sunday night: I’m not letting the Affordable Care Act go down without a fight. “It is my fervent hope and the hope of millions that, regardless of party, such courage is still possible,” Obama said while accepting a “Profile in Courage” award at […]

President Donald Trump’s travel ban is back in the spotlight Monday with a high-stakes legal battle in front of a dozen federal judges in Richmond, Virginia. Nearly two months ago, a federal judge in Maryland imposed a nationwide halt to the core portion of the President’s revised executive order that sought to bar foreign nationals […]

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates will testify Monday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Russia’s meddling in the US election last year, the latest public event in a political saga that has spanned President Donald Trump’s young presidency. Yates became a household name after Trump fired her in January after she refused to defend […]

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is expected to deliver long-awaited testimony Monday afternoon before a Senate subcommittee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Yates was thrust into the national spotlight after she broke with President Donald Trump over the enforcement of his travel ban, an action which led to her firing in January. […]

A few hours after the House finally passed a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Mitch McConnell walked silently and expressionless from his office to a waiting black SUV outside the Capitol. Only his police detail and an aide were with him as he left the quiet building and drove off. The […]

Congressional investigators are running into new challenges with their Russia probes, facing a mountain of records to sift through, uncertainty about the leads they are chasing and partisan disagreement over whether there was any collusion between the Kremlin and Trump advisers. In interviews with CNN, a number of House and Senate lawmakers said that they […]

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron will start getting his house in order Monday after a landslide victory that handed him the reins to the world’s sixth-largest economy. The independent centrist beat his rival Marine Le Pen from the far-right National Front with a decisive 66% of the vote in Sunday’s presidential election, according to the Interior […]

North Korea has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the regime, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday. The regime described Kim Hak-song as “a man who was doing business in relation to the operation of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.” KCNA said the American was detained Saturday, but […]

1. French election relief: France has chosen centrist reformer Emmanuel Macron as its next president. Macron wants to keep France at the heart of the European Union. His defeated far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, offered a very different vision: She campaigned on a promise to drop the euro and had threatened to pull France out […]

Minutes into his acceptance speech, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the “anger, anxiety and doubt” among people who voted for his rival Marine Le Pen. By addressing her supporters so directly and taking their concerns so seriously, the new French president demonstrated that he knows his historic triumph has not crushed populism — it has merely kept […]

DUBOIS – State Rep. Matt Gabler offered the commencement address at ceremonies held Friday evening in the gymnasium at Penn State DuBois. Baccalaureate and associate degrees were conferred by Chancellor M. Scott McBride. Academic Awards for highest GPA’s were presented to Brendan Keegan for associate degrees, and Shalane Read for baccalaureate degrees. “Tonight’s commencement is […]

It didn’t take long for advocacy groups to attack swing-district Republicans who voted for the American Health Care Act, the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. One such group, Save My Care, is set to launch a six-figure ad campaign Monday targeting 24 Republicans who voted “yes” on the bill, which narrowly passed the House […]

Puerto Rico is in the midst of a bleak economic crisis. The island has $74 billion in debt and another $50 billion in pension obligations on the books, making its case by far the largest municipal bankruptcy ever filed. Court documents in support of Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy paint a stark picture of what life is […]

PENFIELD – The DuBois Area Historical Society will hold its 10th annual spring walk May 13 at 10 a.m. at Parker Dam State Park. The walk is free and open to all. Those planning to attend should meet at the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Museum at 10 a.m. Carey Huber, environmental education specialist for Parker […]

Ten people were shot, two fatally, in a “brazen act of gang violence” in Chicago Sunday, police say. The shooting victims had been taking part in a memorial for another person killed in a gang-related murder in the same neighborhood earlier in the day, First Deputy Superintendent of Police Kevin Navarro told reporters. Two people […]

When Emmanuel Macron, France’s moderate centrist candidate, won Sunday’s presidential election against his fiery nationalist opponent Marine Le Pen, he confirmed a trend that should worry right-wing populists — especially those working in the White House. In an ironic twist, Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency — which was supposed to usher in a sweep […]