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On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump retweeted a video that was edited to make it look like he was hitting a golf ball into the back of his 2016 election rival, Hillary Clinton, and knocking her down. It undoubtedly had the effect he wanted with some twisted sliver of his base: they paid attention and […]

Scientist and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said Sunday that, in the wake of devastating floods and damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, climate change had become so severe that the country “might not be able to recover.” In an interview on CNN’s “GPS,” Tyson got emotional when Fareed Zakaria asked what he made of […]

Tropical Storm Maria could become a hurricane Sunday as it takes aim on islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma. As of Sunday afternoon, Maria was about 405 miles (651 kilometers) southeast of the Leeward Islands, moving toward the Caribbean at 15 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was hurling winds of 65 mph, […]

A week after breaking records, “It” is still scaring audiences. Meanwhile, Darren Aronofsky’s psychological horror film “mother!” brought in a box office that’s, well, a bit scary. “It,” the Warner Bros. adaptation of the popular Stephen King horror novel, brought in an estimated $60 million in its second weekend of release in North America. That’s […]

Anna Nordqvist has claimed the final major of the women’s golf season after winning a sudden-death playoff at the Evian Championship in France. The Swede saw off America’s Brittany Altomare at the first extra hole after the pair shot final rounds of 66 to finish on nine-under par for 54 holes — heavy rain on […]

Four American female tourists were attacked with acid Sunday at a Marseille train station in southern France, a police spokesperson said. Two of the women were taken to a hospital, police said. All four were in their early 20s. The attacker was a 41-year-old woman who was mentally unstable, police said. She was subsequently arrested […]

British authorities have arrested a second man in connection with the bombing of a London Underground train on Friday, officials said Sunday. The 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday in Hounslow, west London, by detectives from the London Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command. In Friday’s incident, at Parsons Green station, an improvised device exploded as […]

A retweet may not always equal an endorsement, but when you’re a public officeholder, it certainly can carry a lot of weight.  That’s what made President Donald Trump’s retweet of a GIF Sunday morning that showed him swinging a golf club and appearing to hit Hillary Clinton with a golf ball so stunning. The GIF puts […]

The Trump administration is considering a new travel ban to replace its original executive order, which has had its legality questioned and is up for a Supreme Court hearing next month, White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday. “Well, this is something that we’re looking at, is how to protect the American people […]

The starting pay is pretty good, depending on experience. The jobs are hard to get, and a lot of people want them. It’s the job of an NASA astronaut. America is gearing up for a new era of human spaceflight — with plans to try to reach beyond the moon and perhaps to Mars. There’s […]

President Trump’s big challenges at the United Nations, the spotlight on his ambassador and new wrinkles in two big Senate races filled our Sunday trip around the “Inside Politics” table. 1) Refugee policy a big tug-of-war inside team Trump Among the many questions facing the Trump administration at the President’s first United Nations General Assembly […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that the US was considering closing its embassy in Havana, Cuba. “We have it under evaluation,” Tillerson said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” A group of five Republican senators wrote to Tillerson, requesting the US declare Cuban diplomats unwelcome and shutter the embassy in Cuba, which the […]

A Russian strike wounded members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the anti-ISIS coalition said Saturday. The strike occurred as both Russian and coalition forces converged on the former ISIS stronghold of Deir Ezzor. “Russian munitions impacted a location known to the Russians to contain Syrian Democratic Forces and coalition advisers,” Operation Inherent Resolve, the […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said he rejected criticism from Hillary Clinton that he and his supporters contributed to her defeat in last year’s presidential election. “I worked as hard as I could after endorsing Hillary Clinton,” Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Asked by host Chuck Todd if he accepted Clinton’s criticism that […]

A British Airways flight was briefly grounded in Paris early Sunday, with passengers deplaned amid security concerns, French authorities said. Flight BA303 was due to take off from Charles de Gaulle Airport at 7:25 a.m. (1:25 a.m. ET) bound for London’s Heathrow Airport when the safety concerns were raised. Authorities have not released details about […]

Residents of the Lower Florida Keys were finally allowed to return home Sunday morning, more than a week after they were forced to flee the wrath of Hurricane Irma. Many have been waiting for local officials to tell them it was safe to come back. Some have no idea what they’re coming back to — […]

The upcoming Alabama Senate primary has two high-profile political contenders facing off: President Donald Trump against his former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon. Trump announced Saturday night that he will head to Alabama next weekend to support Republican Sen. Luther Strange in the primary runoff, which pits the appointed senator against former state Supreme […]

The Federal Reserve has four meetings left before Janet Yellen’s four-year term as chair ends in February. One is this week. Her to-do list is full: A possible third rate hike in 2017. Restoring the Fed’s giant, $4.5 trillion portfolio of bonds and other assets, still bloated from the financial crisis, to normal levels. And […]

One woman and two children were killed in a stampede for unofficial handouts of food and clothing near a Rohingya refugee camp, aid agencies say. The three people — whose names and ages have not been released — died Friday as supplies were being thrown from relief trucks on the road in the Balukhali Pan […]

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday it was her and the Republican committee chairman’s intention to bring Donald Trump Jr. before the committee for public testimony. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she was beginning to review the transcript of a […]

Paving the way for possible reconciliation between the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas said Sunday it would dissolve the Gaza administrative committee, allowing a Palestinian unity government to work in its place and move toward general elections. The announcement comes after days of indirect negotiations between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Islamist Hamas in Cairo. […]

Lewis Hamilton has extended his championship lead over Sebastian Vettel after winning a rain-hit Singapore Grand Prix. Starting Sunday’s race from fifth, Hamilton profited as both pole sitter Vettel and his Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen crashed out on a dramatic opening lap. Raikkonen and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen collided on the run down to Turn […]

President Donald Trump retweeted an edited video Sunday morning that showed him swinging a golf club and appearing to hit his former presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton with a golf ball. The animated GIF image Trump retweeted spliced together footage of Trump taking a swing on a golf course with footage of Clinton tripping and […]

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” comment last month about North Korea’s nuclear program was not an empty threat. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Haley emphasized that Defense Secretary James Mattis has an array of options to […]

President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, have agreed to intensify economic and diplomatic pressure against North Korea over its repeated nuclear and missile tests. The two leaders shared a phone call Sunday and their offices released a transcript of their conversation. “President Trump and President Moon committed to continuing to take […]