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San Juan mayor slams Trump administration comments on Puerto Rico hurricane response

September 29, 2017 at 4:12 p.m.

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

September 20, 2017 at 11:09 p.m.

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.

September 14, 2017 at 7:56 a.m.

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

September 2, 2017 at 12:27 a.m.

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

August 1, 2017 at 11:16 a.m.

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...

Chelsea Handler (left) and Tomi Lahren at "Chelsea Handler in Conversation with Tomi Lahren" panel during Politicon at Pasadena Convention Center on July 29, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif.

Tomi Lahren, conservative firebrand, bashes Obamacare while benefiting from it

July 31, 2017 at 6:20 a.m.

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”

July 22, 2017 at 10:36 p.m.

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

June 1, 2017 at 12:00 a.m.

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

Officers arrest suspect Willie Corey Godbolt ...

Mississippi horror: A timeline of 8 killings by one man in a single night

May 30, 2017 at 1:22 p.m.

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...

Lisa Kadonaga, a university professor, poses ...

Sean Spicer cutouts are popping up in bushes worldwide, thanks to a Canadian professor

May 17, 2017 at 12:21 a.m.

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...

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