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06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
“You have people on both sides of that,” the president said when asked about the wrongly convicted defendants.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
New York will be required to get 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and shift entirely to carbon-free power a decade later.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
A memorial outside a funeral home in Fairfield, Conn., during services for Noah Pozner, 6, who was killed in the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
More than 20 emergency responders took hours to determine that a lifeless baby in a “Crawling Dead” shirt was a fake.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Mr. Raniere, 58, co-founded Nxivm in the 1990s as a self-help organization based near Albany. Closing arguments in his six-week federal trial are expected to conclude on Tuesday.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Indigenous leaders and environmentalists marching in protest against the Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, southern British Columbia, last year.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally launches what may be an uphill battle to persuade voters to give him four more years in office, as he bets a strong U.S. economy will outweigh voter concerns about his unorthodox style and polarizing policies.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan abandoned his quest for the top Pentagon job on Tuesday as reports emerged of domestic violence in his family, plunging the leadership of the U.S. military into new uncertainty just as tensions with Iran are rising.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
PG&E Corp will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in California struck by wildfires in recent years, the company and lawyers for the governments said on Tuesday.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stood by claims he made about five men who were wrongly convicted for the brutal rape of a female jogger in New York City's Central Park 30 years ago.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain's prime minister, repeated his pledge on Tuesday that he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by Oct. 31, saying otherwise the government would face a catastrophic loss in trust.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
President Trump on Tuesday accused the European Central Bank of trying to prop up Europe’s economy and weaken its currency to gain a competitive edge over the United States.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
China and the United States are rekindling trade talks ahead of a meeting next week between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, cheering financial markets with hope that an escalating trade war between the two countries would abate.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Hope Hicks, once a close aide and communications director for President Donald Trump, will become on Wednesday the first member of his inner circle to testify to the congressional panel leading a probe into possible obstruction of justice by Trump.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Phil Neville with England’s players before they faced Scotland in their opener.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump repeated on Tuesday that immigration authorities would next week target migrants in the country illegally in large-scale arrests, but still gave no details about the planned action.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Guatemala has not yet committed to becoming a "safe third country" for U.S.-bound migrants seeking asylum, but is analyzing with the United States how to contain flows of people from Central America, the Interior Minister said on Tuesday.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said her use of the phrase “concentration camps” to refer to migrant detention centers was intentional.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
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06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Jerry Falwell Jr. defied expectations when he supported Donald J. Trump in 2016. Now details are emerging about behind-the-scenes maneuvering before the endorsement.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
The Guatemalan presidential candidate Sandra Torres, on a newspaper cover on Monday, was in the lead after partial returns.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was prepared to take military action to stop Tehran from getting a nuclear bomb but left open whether he would back the use of force to protect Gulf oil supplies that Washington fears may be under threat by Iran.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States was very prepared with regard to Iran, as tensions ramped up after attacks on several oil tankers and Tehran's announcement it would step up uranium enrichment.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
The library’s creator, Raj Muhammad, wants Darra Adam Khel to be remembered “not for guns but for the books.”
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Taylor Swift’s new video for her single “You Need to Calm Down” is a bright-colored fantasy filled with all-star cameos.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Everett Palmer Jr. died last year in a jail cell in York County, Pa., after being arrested on an old drunken driving charge.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
A rocket landed near an Iraqi military base hosting U.S. forces in the northern city of Mosul late on Tuesday, an Iraqi military statement said, the second such incident in two days.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
“I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!” features a heroine, Yui Higashiyama, center, who fights for her right to leave work in time for happy hour.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up pressure on the head of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, following a report that White House lawyers earlier this year explored whether they could legally strip Jerome Powell of the Fed chairmanship.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefing reporters at the White House last year.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Along with the show’s history of coercion and complicity in abuse, Police Departments featured can effectively make “any changes they deem necessary.”
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Former President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt in 2012.
06/18/2019 New York Times Top News
Kyle Kashuv in 2018. His admission to Harvard was recently revoked.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a U.S. list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts' findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen’s civil war, according to four people familiar with the matter.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
The United States is expected to be open to negotiations on an "enforceable mechanism" that could allow European planemaker Airbus to receive government funding on commercial terms and ease the risk of tit-for-tat sanctions, two U.S. sources said.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
A new lawsuit asks why New York City's subway accepts advertisements depicting erectile dysfunction, bare buttocks, inflatable plastic breasts, "Kyng"-sized condoms and cactuses shaped like phalluses, but is refusing ads for women's sex toys.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Wall Street surged on Tuesday and the S&P 500 approached a record high after Washington rekindled trade talks with Beijing, boosting sentiment along with growing investor confidence that the Fed will cut interest rates this year.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would likely nominate Mark Esper to be the secretary of defense, hours after he named Esper, the secretary of the Army, to replace Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Michelle Wie returns from injury at this week's Women's PGA Championship in Minnesota, inspired she said by a close-up look at the NBA Finals.
06/18/2019 Reuters Top News
Lawyer Michael Avenatti, an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, is scheduled to go to trial on Nov. 12 in federal court in Manhattan on charges of extorting Nike Inc.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Latest on commemorations of the 75th anniversary of D-Day (all times local): 11:30 a.m. A service of commemoration has begun in southern England to mark the 75th anniversary of … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
North Korea will temporarily suspend the latest edition of its famous mass games, which involve thousands of performers working in precise synchronization, after the premiere drew strong criticism from leader … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
New Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape doubled down on his plans to earn more taxes from the gas-and-gold-rich country's natural resources sector on Wednesday, but said major reform would not take effect for years.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
President Donald Trump traveled to the southern coast of England Wednesday to pay respects to American service members and allies who helped rescue Europe from Nazi Germany. Entering the midway … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day — but this time without being shot at. With the throb of their engines rumbling … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Latest on developments in Sudan (all times local): 12:40 p.m. Sudanese protest organizers are dismissing a call by the ruling generals to resume talks, saying the military isn't serious … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
The German government is underlining its position that the question of World War II reparations to Greece has been settled, after Athens asked Berlin to enter talks on paying compensation. … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell appeared in an Australian court on Wednesday for an appeal hearing to overturn convictions for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
A former nurse on trial on allegations he killed 100 patients at two hospitals in northern Germany apologized to his victims' relatives in a final statement to the court Wednesday, … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
A former U.S. Marine held in Russia on suspicion of spying is being illegally isolated in a Moscow pre-trial detention center and prevented from communicating with visitors, Russian rights activists and U.S. diplomats said.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
Indian officials on Wednesday were reconsidering a plan to retrieve five bodies believed to be members of a team of international climbers that went missing on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
A man who authorities say injured a Michigan sheriff's deputy in a fight after a car chase has been convicted in the case. WHMI-FM reports 36-year-old Albert Smith of Flint … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
Cyprus stands to gain more than $9 billion from the export of gas from its offshore 'Aphrodite' field over the 18-year life-span of the deposit, the east Mediterranean island nation's … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
An upstart Thai opposition politician vying to become prime minister called for change on Wednesday, as both houses of parliament convened for the first time since a 2014 coup to vote for either him or the chief of the ruling junta to be leader.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
A Kentucky man is accused of impersonating a police officer and pointing a gun at two people on separate occasions. News outlets report 28-year-old Christopher Flannery was arrested over the … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Dutch government, employers and labor unions have after years of discussions hammered out a new pension framework to make it more sustainable as people live longer and swap jobs … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's visit to Britain (all times local): 11:10 a.m. President Donald Trump is helping kick off two days of D-Day observances by … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
Gov. Ralph Northam has signed a bill striking Jim Crow-era exceptions from Virginia's minimum-wage law, and he formed a commission to find other discriminatory language in state laws and regulations. … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Hungary's government is moving to tighten its grip on the research institutions of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, despite protests by scientists against political control of the academy.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
A battery-powered glider crashed into the roof of a Connecticut home, injuring the pilot and scaring a mother and her two children who were watching TV. Neighbors described hearing a … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Uganda Red Cross says at least five people have died in mudslides triggered by heavy rains in the east. Several others are said to be missing. The group said … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 USA Today - Nation
A routine helicopter rescue turned frightening when the basket carrying an injured woman began spinning wildly in the air. (June 4)![]()
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Sudan's military ruler offered to resume talks with opposition groups without conditions on Wednesday, in an apparent olive branch two days after security forces mounted a deadly raid on a protest camp in central Khartoum.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump gathered Wednesday on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. But the stars of the show … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
Your daily look at late breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. BRITAIN PLANS 'UNPRECEDENTED' D-DAY EVENT World leaders and World War II … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
A Kurdish official in northern Syria says local authorities there have transferred eight American women and children who were captured with the Islamic State group back to the U.S. Abdulkarim … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
World leaders gather on the coast of southern England on Wednesday to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history and a feat that helped bring World War Two to an end.
06/05/2019 Tri-City Herald Local News
Sephora is closing its U.S. stores for an hour Wednesday morning to host "inclusion workshops" for its 16,000 employees, just over a month after R&B star SZA said she had … Click to Continue »
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Two U.S. women with Islamic State ties and six children were repatriated from northeast Syria, Kurdish-led authorities told Reuters on Wednesday, saying their return came at the request of the U.S. government.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
With a cryptic message about UFOs and a picture of a missile launcher, China's military has hinted that it has carried out a test of a new missile, after images of an object streaking toward the sky circulated on Chinese social media.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Several people were injured in an accident at the Swiss mountain resort of Titlis Engelberg on Wednesday during maintenance work on an out-of-service ski lift, a resort spokesman said.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Indian authorities will likely take at least 10 days to recover the bodies of a group of climbers feared killed in an avalanche high in the Himalayas, government and police officials said on Wednesday.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Prime Minister Theresa May's successor should abandon her Brexit deal and commit to taking Britain out of the European Union by October 31, an influential pro-Brexit group of Conservative lawmakers said on Wednesday.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Who are the candidates vying for British Prime Minister Theresa May's job and what have they said about Brexit?
06/05/2019 USA Today - Nation
Victims of those police calls would be able to sue the caller for up to $250, under a measure overwhelmingly approved by state Senate.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in the southern English city of Portsmouth on Wednesday for the 75th anniversary commemorations for D-Day, a Reuters reporter travelling with the president said.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
A Russian fighter jet made a dangerous high-speed pass that put a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft at risk during an intercept over the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, the U.S. Sixth Fleet said, but Moscow said its pilot had behaved responsibly.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Police said they had found the body of a twelfth South Korean tourist a week after a pleasure boat capsized and sank on the River Danube in Budapest, killing an estimated 28 people.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Wednesday stepped up criticism of a European Commission audit into his possible conflicts of interest, calling the auditors incompetent and demanding a meeting with the head of the commission executive.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Mexican officials will seek to persuade the White House in talks hosted by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that their government has done enough to stem immigration and avoid looming tariffs.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Defying increasing criticism from within his own party, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would likely go ahead with new tariffs on imports from Mexico to pressure it to clamp down on rising numbers of migrants entering the United States.
06/05/2019 Reuters World News
Days after this year's "Mass Games" debuted before North Korea's top leadership, the huge pageant has been put on hold after leader Kim Jong Un expressed his dissatisfaction, foreign tour groups said on Wednesday.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
A naval aviator in World War II, Ronald Mason has always wanted to parachute. Last weekend, the 100-year-old Iowan made his first jump.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Highlights of this day in history: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles; The Six-Day War erupts in the Mideast; Birth of the Marshall Plan; First reported AIDS cases in the U.S.; Former President Ronald Reagan dies. (June 5)
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
A North Carolina man said he chose the winning Powerball numbers from a fortune cookie his stepdaughter had years ago.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Jones murdered his five children after grappling with substance abuse and living as a single father.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Wildfire forces evacuations in Washington state
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
The wall is more than 20 feet tall and goes up a 300-foot incline over mountainous terrain. It also extends 7 feet into the ground.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Organizers announced they plan to host a "Straight Pride Parade" in August, but its unclear if the city of Boston will allow the event.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Linda Fairstein, whose involvement in the Central Park Five case was included in Netflix's "When They See Us," resigned from Vassar's board
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
A man jailed in Michigan is suspected of shooting and killing a 70-year-old defrocked priest accused of sexually assaulting minors.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Low-income Americans are more likely to spend on imported items that could soon be taxed more by tariffs.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Hundreds of Africans have amassed at the U.S.-Mexican border at Nuevo Laredo without Spanish-language skills or much money to survive.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
New York's Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would make the state the first in the U.S. to make it illegal to declaw a cat, imposing a $1,000 fine on veterinarians who preform the procedure. (June 4)
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Jennifer Dulos, who has been missing since May 24, has five children ages 8 to 13.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
A foundation dedicated to memorializing victims of communism marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre by unveiling a statue of the iconic "Tank Man" during a rally in Washington, D.C. (June 4)
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Mark Morgan said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will prioritize undocumented criminals, but no illegal immigrants should be exempt.
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
A judge is considering whether to force doctors from Missouri's only abortion clinic to testify in a legal fight over the its license, while anti-abortion protesters demonstrate outside the facility. (June 4)
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner in London on Tuesday attended by the UK prime minister and the Prince of Wales. (June 4)
06/04/2019 USA Today - Nation
Stacie Baur teaches English to kids in China by teleconference for several hours each morning from her home to afford rent prior to her daily teaching job in Clairton, Penn.![]()