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That “Sex and the City” sequel is really not going to happen. Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones on the long-running HBO hit, is far from friendly with the rest of her former castmates. “We’ve never been friends,” Cattrall said in an interview with Piers Morgan’s “Life Stories” scheduled to air on Monday night. “We’ve […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s surprise visit to Iraq will have one particular focus: calming tensions between Baghdad and the Kurds in order to keep both parties focused on Washington’s core priority: the war against ISIS. “We have friends both in Baghdad and in (the Kurdish capital of) Erbil,” Tillerson said as he met Iraqi […]

There are some harsh words being bandied about in Hollywood since numerous women accused screenwriter and director James Toback of sexual harassment. The allegations from more than 30 women came to light in a Los Angeles Times story published Sunday. Toback’s agent, Jeff Berg, told CNN he would pass a request for a comment on […]

First lady Melania Trump is making good on a promise she made earlier this year to combat childhood bullying, taking a surprise trip Monday to a middle school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. Trump is bringing awareness to a problem that many children are confronted with on a daily basis. She gave brief […]

A former top currency trader at HSBC faces up to 20 years in federal prison after being found guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud Monday. The federal court jury in Brooklyn found the 51-year old trader, Mark Johnson, guilty of executing trades in a way that drove up costs for a client. As a result, […]

A week ago today was the last chance to file your 2016 federal income tax returns — a time which, in the past, has occasioned the president to release a portion of his own taxes. Not this year. I only know this because my former Washington Post colleague Callum Borchers noted it in a terrific […]

Police escorted students to school bus stops Monday after a series of homicides rattled a Tampa, Florida, neighborhood. Three people were shot and killed within a 1-mile radius of each other in a span of less than two weeks, and investigators believe the string of deaths are linked. Police have blanketed the Seminole Heights area […]

Bill O’Reilly is going on the offensive to defend himself after the latest bombshell about sexual harassment allegations against him. But his former Fox News colleague Megyn Kelly isn’t having it. Kelly, speaking during her new one-hour block on the “Today” show, addressed a story published by the New York Times over the weekend which […]

Delta is on the hunt for new flight attendants. The airline has more than 1,000 open flight attendant positions for 2018 and the competition is stiff. Last year, 150,000 people applied for around 1,200 flight attendant jobs. Fewer than 1% of applicants were hired. So far, Delta has received more than 125,000 applications for this […]

Chicago is a long way away from Utuado and Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. But Julian Seda is trying to get 68,000 pounds of donated supplies to these and other remote towns, as fast as he can — and with as little official involvement as possible. “The government has their hands full,” said Seda, who leads the […]

Senators on the armed services committee are expected to receive a briefing from Pentagon officials Thursday on the Niger incident, according to two Senate sources. Both the House and Senate armed services committees have received staff-level briefings since the October 4 ambush that killed four US servicemen. The House committee has been briefed six times, […]

President Donald Trump will for the second time of his presidency award the Medal of Honor during a ceremony Monday at the White House. Trump will present the highest military honor to Gary Michael Rose, a retired US Army captain who served as a medic in the Vietnam War. Rose is receiving the honor for […]

WeWork, a real estate company that bills itself as a co-working space mecca, just made an unlikely acquisition: It bought a school. The business, valued at $20 billion, is most known for leasing buildings and renting office space to tech companies and entrepreneurs. But now it’s growing its footprint beyond real estate to education. WeWork […]

Former FBI Director James Comey revealed his secret Twitter account Monday with a tweeted picture from Iowa. “Goodbye Iowa. On the road home,” Comey wrote in the post, which depicts him standing in the middle of a country road. “Gotta get back to writing. Will try to tweet in useful ways.” Comey has a book […]

As part of a small subset of the pop-culture universe that thought “Stranger Things” was nice but nothing special, the second season provoked some trepidation. How can one characterize whether the Emmy-nominated Netflix phenom lives up to the hype when you felt it was overhyped in the first place? The result is a second season […]

A group of Kenyan teenagers have created an app called i-Cut to help girls affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The students, Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Mascrine Atieno and Ivy Akinyi, have named themselves ‘The Restorers’, and will be the only Africans participating in the 2017 Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley in August. […]

African space programs are nothing new. In 1964 Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, high school teacher and self-appointed director of Zambia’s national space program, had the bold ambition of beating the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race, and landing a Zambian on the Moon. Using unconventional techniques, such as spinning students around a tree […]

Two years ago South African Chris Venter lost his eyesight from a virus he contracted while travelling. A former chef, he was determined to keep cooking. To do so, he’s had to relearn how to navigate a kitchen and even how to chop onions. If he wants to pour milk, he has a device that […]

They may be teenagers, but 17-year-old Brittany Bull and 16-year-old Sesam Mngqengqiswa have grand ambitions — to launch Africa’s first private satellite into space. They are part of a team of high school girls from Cape Town, South Africa, who have designed and built payloads for a satellite that will orbit over the earth’s poles […]

ST. MARYS – Elk County Toastmasters enjoyed a significant turnout of members and guests at their annual dinner meeting in October. It was a banner year for the group, which gained many new members from Elk, Jefferson and Clearfield counties. Toastmasters has been the premier public speaking and leadership organization around the globe for nearly […]

It was supposed to be an evening of celebration, a gala presentation of a movie which won its star, Palestinian Kamel El Basha, the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival last month. The screening of “The Insult,” at Ramallah’s showcase Cultural Palace, would bring the curtain down on the fourth Palestinian “Days of […]

The genetic causes of breast cancer just got clearer. Researchers from 300 institutions around the world combined forces to discover 72 previously-unknown gene mutations that lead to the development of breast cancer. Two studies describing their work published Monday in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics. The teams found that 65 of the newly identified […]

CLEARFIELD – Clearfield Borough police are continuing their search for a missing 16-year-old Coalport boy, James K. Potts. Potts went missing around 12:24 p.m. Oct. 11 from East Locust Street in Clearfield. Since then, police haven’t received any positive leads as to Potts’ whereabouts. “We are still actively searching,” Chief Vincent McGinnis told GANT News […]

Renée Zellweger has some big ruby slippers to fill. The actress is set to star as Judy Garland in a movie about her life 30 years after the success of “The Wizard of Oz.” The film, aptly named, “Judy,” will take place in 1968 as Garland is gearing up for her final concerts in London. […]

Quietly, in the final hours of the Senate budget debate last week, a dam of sorts broke, with House GOP leaders agreeing to small-ish technical changes to the Senate budget that would allow them to pass it as is. Minor as it seemed (the substitute amendment that contained these changes was approved with little fanfare), […]