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San Juan mayor slams Trump administration comments on Puerto Rico hurricane response
The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital city on Friday sharply criticized a senior Trump administration official for calling the government's disaster response "a good news story," comments that came amid...

Puerto Rico entirely without power as Hurricane Maria hammers island
Hurricane Maria delivered a destructive full-body blow to this U.S. territory on Wednesday, ripping off metal roofs, generating terrifying and potentially lethal flash floods, knocking out 100 percent of the...

Homeless man asked woman to move Porsche so he could sleep. Then she shot him, Nashville police say.
Katie Quackenbush, an aspiring singer and songwriter, was charged with attempted murder in connection with the Aug. 26 shooting in which a 54-year-old homeless man asked her to move her...

Boy, 7, was tortured to death and fed to pigs; Kansas agencies failed him, says lawsuit
Adrian Jones' short, tortured life was spent isolated from outsiders, confined in filthy, mice-infested houses where he was "home-schooled" by the parents who ultimately killed him, according to court documents.

“Goodbye, Mooch”: Late-night comedians bid farewell to Anthony Scaramucci
In the days after Anthony Scaramucci's appointment as White House communications director, late-night hosts introduced their mobster-like imitations of the fast-talking, brash New Yorker. They came up with a slew...

Tomi Lahren, conservative firebrand, bashes Obamacare while benefiting from it
The vocal Trump supporter bashed the ACA, saying she believes universal health care is a bad decision and that Obamacare "fails the very people that it's intended to help."

Muppet creator’s family says fired actor played Kermit as “bitter, depressed victim”
With his enormous mouth, cheerful eyes and frantic way of talking, Kermit always seemed like a cheerful frog.

Parents can now get refunds for purchases their kids made on Amazon apps without permission
Parents whose children made Amazon purchases on mobile apps without their permission will begin getting their money back, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.

Mississippi horror: A timeline of 8 killings by one man in a single night
It began, as so many American killings do, as what police always describe as a "domestic," a man arguing about child custody with his estranged wife. It ended some seven...

Sean Spicer cutouts are popping up in bushes worldwide, thanks to a Canadian professor
As Sean Spicer scrambled to explain to reporters why President Donald Trump suddenly decided to fire FBI director James Comey last week, the White House press secretary huddled with his...