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Harvey Weinstein, right, arrives for a court hearing in New York, on July 9, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Louis Lanzano

Harvey Weinstein fails to get charges dismissed, sexual assault trial continues

December 20, 2018 at 9:54 a.m.

NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial will proceed, a judge ruled on Thursday, clearing the way for the man whose actions set off the #MeToo movement to face a...

GoFundMe campaign raises over $3 million for Trump鈥檚 border wall in just four days

December 20, 2018 at 6:05 a.m.

If neither Mexico nor Congress is going to fund President Donald Trump's border wall, then Brian Kolfage has a more expedient plan: GoFundMe.

A city employee in San Francisco loads an electric scooter from Lime onto the back of a truck on May 2, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by David Paul Morris.

Almost every electric scooter in the world comes from this Chinese company

December 11, 2018 at 7:37 a.m.

Scooter-sharing company Lime recently relayed a troubling messaging to its users: a portion of its fleet was at risk of bursting into flames.

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen at near sunset in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018.

Supreme Court declines to review rulings that blocked efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding

December 10, 2018 at 5:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review lower court decisions that blocked efforts in two states to cut off public funding for Planned Parenthood, refusing for now...

A pitch tube, common sign of mountain pine beetle infestation, is seen on the bark of a pine tree in a forest near Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by David Ryder

Vast forests of dead or stressed trees prompt new federal approach to restoration in West

December 10, 2018 at 11:53 a.m.

Hikers climbing above tree line in Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest nowadays encounter a startling landscape: the gray skeletons of millions of dead lodgepole pine.

President Donald Trump disembarks Marine One and walks back across the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford

Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils

December 8, 2018 at 4:32 p.m.

WASHINGTON - A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump's...

A worker unloads a bowl of charcoal onto a wire mesh filter at a coal wholesale market in Mumbai, India. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Dhiraj Singh

“We are in trouble”: Global carbon emissions reached record high in 2018

December 8, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide have reached the highest levels on record, scientists projected Wednesday, in the latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and...

Scented candles can transport you back; especially during the holidays. Photographed Nov. 13, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Gingerbread, fir, firewood: Can a scented candle capture the essence of Christmas?

December 8, 2018 at 10:14 a.m.

Many people have a special smell they associate with the holidays.

William Barr, shown in 2003, was attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Chris Kleponis

Trump鈥檚 new top attorney general pick has downplayed Russia investigation

December 7, 2018 at 10:19 a.m.

President Donald Trump insisted when he made Matthew Whitaker his acting attorney general that he wasn't familiar with Whitaker's past commentary critical of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe.

Leslie McCrae Dowless sits in his kitchen in Bladenboro, N.C.

Republican officials had early warnings of voting irregularities in North Carolina, congressman says

December 6, 2018 at 8:11 p.m.

State and national Republican officials received early warnings about voting irregularities in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, now the subject of multiple criminal probes.

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