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The businessman president had a really bad week with the business world. CEOs bolted. His advisory councils collapsed. Some of his customers said they won’t give him their business anymore. Trump’s Treasury secretary got called out by his fellow Yale Class of ’85 graduates. His friend Carl Icahn, one of Trump’s earliest supporters from Wall […]

James Bond’s favorite car company just made a splash on the auction scene. A glossy turquoise 1956 Aston Martin with a racing legacy sold for $22,550,000 — the most a British-made car has ever fetched at auction. The record price was set at RM Sotheby’s classic car auction in Monterey, California Friday. After a bidding […]

President Donald Trump wished his former chief strategist Steve Bannon well upon his return to the conservative website Breitbart News, tweeting Saturday, “Fake News needs the competition!” Bannon will be a “tough and smart new voice @BreitbartNews … maybe even better than ever before,” Trump wrote. Bannon will be executive chairman of Breitbart — a […]

Dr. Esther Choo is an Asian-American emergency room physician who has practiced medicine for more than a decade. Yet, she says, a few times a year, a patient will refuse to let her treat them. Solely because of her race. Choo, who works in Oregon, first shared her experience of dealing with racist patients who […]

A second Florida police officer has died from wounds he suffered in a shooting Friday night, Kissimmee police said on its Facebook page. Sgt. Richard “Sam” Howard died Saturday afternoon, a day after Officer Matthew Baxter died at the scene of a shooting in the central Florida city near Orlando. Earlier Police Chief Jeff O’Dell […]

Sierra Leone is facing significant health challenges after this week’s devastating mudslides claimed nearly 500 lives, a government official said, with the number of dead expected to rise. Eighteen bodies were discovered Saturday, bringing the death toll to 499 people, according to Sidie Yahya Tunis, the tourism and cultural affairs minister. More than 150 children […]

At least 23 people were killed and 40 injured Saturday after a train derailed in northern India, police said. The express train from Puri to Haridwar derailed near the city of Khatauli, Uttar Pradesh Police said in a statement. Eight of the train’s coaches derailed and toppled over each other, police said. The injured have […]

This last week has been surreal for my family. We lost one of our own in one of the most public ways possible. A man in a car ran down my cousin, Heather Heyer, because she decided to join her fellow Charlottesville residents against the neo-Nazis and white supremacists on their streets. My family — […]

Thousands of counterdemonstrators marched Saturday in downtown Boston in response to a self-described free speech rally that had sparked concerns of possible violence. The largely peaceful march and rally came one week after racially motivated protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly. Amid a heavy police presence, men, women and children from diverse backgrounds showed up […]

Two Pennsylvania State troopers hurt, suspect killed in Friday shooting.

About half of Americans (51%) have plans to watch the eclipse of the sun happening across the United States on August 21, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. That figure climbs to 60% among those who live in states touched by the “zone of totality,” where the moon will completely block the sun’s […]

Neo-Nazis marched in the streets of Berlin on Saturday as counterprotesters assembled to meet them, a week after a white supremacist rally turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. Helmeted police in riot gear stood guard as right-wing demonstrators converged on the German capital to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s […]

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors in December, the White House announced Saturday morning. “The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year’s activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,” a statement from the White House read. […]

An international manhunt was underway Saturday for the driver of a van that killed 13 people in Barcelona, as police probed the wreckage of a suspected bomb factory for clues to the cell behind two terror attacks in Spain. The flattened ruins of a house in the village of Alcanar have become the center of […]

With major cities across the country bracing for an unusual wave of far-right rallies in the coming days, local and federal law enforcement officials are concerned about the potential for more violence amid warnings that white supremacist groups were empowered by President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. There’s […]

More than most men who’ve had his job, President Donald Trump is familiar with the feel of a controversy, its life cycles, how it grows, how it goes out. Instead of climbing the political ladder as a state legislator or US House member before becoming a senator or governor to audition for the top role […]

Details of the victims of twin terror attacks in Spain are slowly emerging, with an American, three Italians and a Canadian among those identified as among the dead. Citizens from at least 34 countries are among the 14 dead and more than 120 injured in the attacks in Barcelona and the coastal town of Cambrils, […]

Police investigating two terror attacks in Spain were probing the wreckage of a suspected bomb factory Saturday, as they continued to hunt for a fugitive suspect named as Younes Abouyaaqoub. The flattened ruins of a house in the village of Alcanar have become the center of a massive police investigation into a terror cell suspected […]

Stabbings in the Finnish city of Turku that left two people dead and injured eight others are being treated as acts of terror, Finland Police said. “The incidents were initially investigated as murders, but in the light of further information received during the night, the offenses include now murders with terrorist intent and their attempts,” […]

Spanish authorities are hunting for Younes Abouyaaqoub, a suspect in the deadly Barcelona terror attack who police say remains at large, a spokesman for the Catalan police told CNN on Saturday. The police spokesman also confirmed the names of three of the five suspected terrorists who were killed in a confrontation with police in the […]

A Florida police officer was shot dead and a second one critically injured in what may have been an ambush while responding to a call in Kissimmee, authorities said. The injured officer is in “grave critical condition” after the shooting, Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said. Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard were responding to […]

A New York City megachurch pastor became the first religious leader to step down from President Trump’s evangelical advisory board. A.R. Bernard announced on Twitter Friday that “it became obvious that there was a deepening conflict in values between myself and the administration.” Many of Trump’s religious advisers have stood by the President following widespread […]

A Florida police officer was shot dead and a second one critically injured in what may have been an ambush while responding to a call in Kissimmee, authorities said. The injured officer is in “grave critical condition” after the shooting in Kissimmee, Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said. Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard were […]

With major cities across the country bracing for an unusual wave of far-right rallies in the coming days, local and federal law enforcement officials are concerned about the potential for more violence amid warnings that white supremacist groups were empowered by President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. There’s […]

Scott Hurst’s three-run homer in the 15th inning, the latest home run in State College Spikes history, gave the Spikes a 5-2 win over the West Virginia Black Bears in a Friday night marathon at Monongalia County Ballpark. With the win, the Spikes stopped a three-game losing streak and climbed back to within three games […]