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Discord between President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat is at an all-time high, spilling into public view in recent days, peaking with a NBC News report Wednesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron” in a Pentagon meeting. Trump was aware before Wednesday’s report that Tillerson had referred to him as […]

It has become a predictable affair. A mass shooting happens, there is a call for tighter gun laws and then it’s business as usual. Gun-control advocates around the world are closely watching the US after Sunday’s shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in the country’s modern history — wondering if it will be the […]

Wells Fargo is in trouble once again — this time for fees charged to customers trying to nail down a mortgage. The scandal-ridden bank said on Wednesday that some mortgage borrowers were inappropriately charged for missing a deadline to lock in promised interest rates, even though the delays were Wells Fargo’s fault. Wells Fargo said […]

Seattle is a city on the edge. So much of Seattle’s recent history is about pushing boundaries, from music to art to technology. When award-winning architect Tom Kundig first visited in 1962, it was for the Seattle World’s Fair. “That was a pretty special moment for Seattle. And even as a kid, you sort of […]

The history of the 2016 presidential election is still very much in its draft stage, but there is at least one line — from New York Sen. Chuck Schumer — that is sure to feature in the final accounting. During a live interview hours before Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Philadelphia, he […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered effusive praise for President Donald Trump’s approach to the world on Wednesday after reports of a rift between the President and his chief diplomat. “President Trump’s foreign policy goals break the mold of what people traditionally think is achievable by our country,” Tillerson said. “Our job is now to […]

Wells Fargo is still struggling to shake off a bad reputation it earned through numerous recent scandals. Senator Elizabeth Warren told CEO Tim Sloan at a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday that he should be fired. Wells will have a chance to show Wall Street (if not necessarily politicians or consumers) that it is trying […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered effusive praise for President Donald Trump’s approach to the world on Wednesday after reports of a rift between the President and his chief diplomat. “President Trump’s foreign policy goals break the mold of what people traditionally think is achievable by our country,” Tillerson said. “Our job is now to […]

New footage from inside several hospitals in Yemen reveals the crisis facing the war-torn country as it battles to contain one of the world’s worst ever outbreaks of cholera. The videos, provided to CNN by the International Rescue Committee, show children being treated for possible symptoms of the infectious disease in hospitals and mobile health […]

Immigrants who come to America to start businesses and create jobs face plenty of hurdles. The Trump administration is making things harder. Just ask Kathy Tuan. The 22-year-old senior from the University of Washington is running a company called NASTEA & Co., which sells dirty chai beverages. When she graduates next year, she may no […]

At least 58 people were killed and over 500 injured when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas. The crime instantly entered the record books as the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The thing is — it could have been worse. I know that sounds lame. But […]

One day after President Trump suggested that Puerto Rico’s huge debt load could be wiped out, his own budget director walked the comments back. “I wouldn’t take it word for word with that,” Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. The U.S. territory has struggled […]

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock encouraged his live-in girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to leave the country before his attack that left 58 people dead, her sisters told CNN affiliate Seven Network Australia. The sisters, who spoke to Seven News exclusively, did not want to be identified by name and requested their faces be blurred. “I know […]

A top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee warned former Equifax CEO Richard Smith not to hide anything from lawmakers after exposing as many as 145 million Americans’ sensitive data. “Equifax has forfeited its right to corporate secrets,” said Senator Sherrod Brown at a hearing. “So please do not make the same mistakes Wells Fargo […]

Catalan’s secessionist leaders appear determined to defy the King of Spain and go ahead with a unilateral declaration of independence — a move that would steer the country’s deepening constitutional crisis into uncharted waters. The office of the Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said he would appear before the regional parliament on Monday, despite a warning […]

CLEARFIELD – A Morrisdale man pleaded guilty to arson Tuesday during sentencing court in Clearfield County. William Blake Verbeck, 63, was charged with arson after an incident Aug. 23, 2016 when he set his truck on fire then claimed that raffle tickets and cash for the Morris Township Fire Department were inside. He was also […]

You know things are going badly when even the writing on the wall falls off. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempt to relaunch her faltering premiership was badly derailed Wednesday when a keynote speech was marred by an interruption from a prankster, a prolonged coughing fit and finally the disintegration of the stage set behind […]

This week in Phoenix, US District Judge Susan Bolton will hear arguments relating to President Donald Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio. Trump pardoned the former Maricopa County sheriff on August 25, and the Department of Justice has dropped its case against him. A hearing Wednesday is to decide whether Arpaio’s conviction stands or is vacated […]

Aung San Suu Kyi is to be stripped of the Freedom of Oxford by the city’s council for her response to the Rohingya crisis. Myanmar’s de facto leader was bestowed with the honorary title in 1997 in recognition of her long struggle for democracy and her ties to Oxford where she studied. City councilors considered […]

“Blade Runner 2049” boasts such an enticing assortment of elements it’s frustrating that they aren’t assembled into a movie that fully delivers on its promise. Yet despite Ryan Gosling, a striking visual template and Harrison Ford reprising the role he played in the 1982 sci-fi classic, glitches mar this undeniably ambitious but drawn-out exercise. Director […]

Tony Burditus never got a chance to say good-bye to his high school sweetheart. The couple, from West Virginia, had gone to Las Vegas for a weekend getaway — and to attend the Route 91 Harvest music festival. They’d dined out and swum in a gleaming hotel pool, documenting their adventures on social media. Just […]

James and Alexa Hirschfeld’s successful online stationery company, Paperless Post, was born of necessity. James was throwing an elaborate party to celebrate his 21st birthday in 2007. He had worked out every detail, but when it came time to send out invites, paper was too expensive, and digital didn’t reflect “all the care that went […]

Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy has had one hell of a last month. In early September, the Republican House member admitted to an extramarital affair with a “personal friend” following the unsealing of divorce records that showed he had been involved in a relationship with Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist. “This is nobody’s fault but my […]

Sending immigration judges to the border has resulted in thousands of more cases being handled, the Justice Department announced Wednesday, though a substantial backlog in the immigration courts remain. The Justice Department released new statistics on Wednesday touting the effects of reassigning more than 100 immigration judges to the southern border, saying it has resulted […]

As a child, Nic von Rupp had an abject terror of rocks. Today, his phobia of being under the water makes his career choice of a big-wave surfer all the more remarkable. Big-wave surfing is dangerous enough — the world’s best taken into the maelstrom by jet ski — but Von Rupp makes the thrill-seeking […]