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Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9; U.S. last major user of plane
Canada said Wednesday that it is grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes over safety concerns arising from the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight earlier this week. The news leaves the United States and its carriers as the last major users of the aircraft. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said...
Bones were found in the fireplace. Rare coins may have been the motive for murder, police say.
It was reportedly not a happy home. The couple lived on a tree-shaded street in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County. The house overlooked a creek that corkscrewed all the way to the Susquehanna River and Harrisburg about 10 miles away to the east. Inside, the relationship between Rabihan and Hap...
Michael Avenatti is no longer representing Stormy Daniels
Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels are parting ways. Daniels said in a tweet that she has retained Tulsa-based attorney Clark Brewster as her personal attorney and has asked him to review all legal matters involving her. “Upon completion of Mr. Brewster’s review and further consultation with me, I anticipate Mr....
Summer of hard seltzer is coming: Here’s how 4 of the top brands stack upVideo
If there’s a drink that exists, someone will make it boozy. Consider it the Rule 34 of the beverage industry. Boozy root beer. Boozy Capri Sun. Boozy kombucha. So, given the recent mega-popularity of seltzer, a boozy version of the pleasantly neutral drink was hot on its heels. And now...
British Parliament overwhelmingly rejects Theresa May’s Brexit plan
LONDON — Three years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, lawmakers have failed to agree on how to do it. Parliament overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s revised Brexit deal Tuesday in a vote of 391-242 - a loss of 149 ballots. The defeat for May and her...
‘I’m not for impeachment,’ Nancy Pelosi says, potentially roiling fellow Democrats
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Trump even though she believes he is “unfit” for office — her first definitive statement on the subject and one that stands to alienate members of her own Democratic Party who are intent...
Is it time to replace these 5 household items?
As winter grinds to a close, our focus will soon move from indoors to outdoors. So, now is a good time to take a critical eye to some of the often overlooked details inside your home. If something is looking shabby or worn, replacing it will give your home a...
Woman trying to take a selfie with a jaguar when it attacks her, authorities sayVideo
A woman was attacked by a jaguar as she was apparently trying to get a photo outside the big cat’s enclosure at Wildlife World Zoo in Arizona, authorities said. Shawn Gilleland, a spokesman for the Rural Metro Fire Department, told The Washington Post on Sunday that fire crews said the...
Adam Schiff says it’s ‘mistake’ for Mueller not to interview TrumpVideo
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller was making a “mistake” by not demanding that President Trump testify as part of his investigation, which by many accounts may soon be nearing its end. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. Adam...
Democrats were trying to ‘protect’ Omar with resolution denouncing hate, Rep. Liz Cheney says
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Sunday that House Democrats were trying to protect Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., with last week’s resolution broadly denouncing hate, as a Democratic co-author of the measure pushed back, arguing that “history is going to judge” those who voted against it. Cheney was one of 23...
U.S. authorities to assist in investigation of Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157
U.S. air safety officials are assisting in the investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane bound for Nairobi that went down Sunday, killing all 157 people on board, including eight Americans. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will take part in the probe, officials said,...
Gwyneth Paltrow stops by ‘Saturday Night Live’ to spoof Goop, her own companyVideo
“Saturday Night Live” offered an unusual surprise during this week’s Weekend Update segment: a cameo from Gwyneth Paltrow, which found the actress mocking her lifestyle brand Goop. For the uninitiated, Goop is Paltrow’s wellness brand, which has produced such controversial products as coffee enemas and jade eggs meant to be...
‘Saturday Night Live’ takes on R. Kelly in cold open, giving Trump jokes a restVideo
“Saturday Night Live” threw a curveball by taking a break from hammering President Donald Trump in this week’s cold open and instead focusing on another powerful man who has been accused of wrongdoing: R. Kelly. Only hours before the show, the R&B singer had been released from Cook County (Illinois)...
Jayme Closs kidnapping suspect reportedly confesses in letter from jail
A man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs from her rural Wisconsin home in the fall after her parents were killed has purportedly written a letter from jail saying he regretted the crimes and committed them “mostly on impulse.” The letter supposedly from Jake Patterson, who was arrested in January...
GOP lawmaker tried to silence a black senator in a gun law debate. She stood her ground – and won.Video
Debate on gun legislation reached a crescendo at the Arkansas state capitol Wednesday when a senator fervently denounced a bill that would make it easier to use lethal force in the name of self-defense. The bill, sponsored by three Republican state senators, would remove a clause from the current law...
Puerto Rico starts cutting food stamp benefits amid congressional impasse
Puerto Rico has started cutting benefits paid out by a food stamps program used by more than 1 million of its residents, as federal lawmakers have not provided the island with additional emergency disaster funding amid opposition from the Trump administration. On Monday, Puerto Rico started reducing food stamp benefits...
Power outage in Venezuela leaves millions in dark
CARACAS, Venezuela — A massive blackout plunged Caracas and much of the nation into chaos Thursday, forcing the rush-hour closure of the capital’s metro and sending tens of thousands of people into the streets in what the authorities alleged was an act of “sabotage.” “This is part of a power...
A black man was picking up trash outside his home. Then police confronted him.
The Boulder, Colo., police department is conducting an internal investigation after video surfaced of an officer questioning a black man who was picking up garbage in front of his residence. The officer has been placed on administrative leave until the investigation is complete. On Friday morning, an officer initially approached...
Protests erupt after Catholic school in Kansas declines to enroll a same-sex couple’s child
A Catholic school in Kansas refused to admit a same-sex couple’s kindergarten-aged child. Now, more than 1,000 people are protesting the decision and urging the school to change its mind. In a letter sent to the parents of students at St. Ann Catholic School in Prairie Village, the Rev. Craig...
Fed data: Household net worth falls by largest amount since Great RecessionVideo
Total household net worth in the fourth quarter of 2018 dropped by the largest amount since the fourth quarter of 2008 when the country was in the midst of a steep recession, according to data released today by the Federal Reserve. Total household net worth is a measure of the...
With Luke Perry’s death, the wayward ‘Riverdale’ loses its moral compass
After news broke of actor Luke Perry’s untimely death on Monday, a common refrain rose among Gen Xers: “Can you believe there’s an entire generation who won’t remember him as Dylan McKay from ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’?” They’re not wrong. Hulu carries the series, which aired on Fox in the 1990s,...
Michael Cohen: Pardons discussed with a second Trump lawyer
WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen has claimed to the House Intelligence Committee that he discussed the subject of a pardon with President Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow, bringing another of Trump’s representatives into an ongoing dispute over precisely who opened discussions about the matter. Under penalty of perjury, Cohen alleged to lawmakers...
Celebrity cat Lil Bub attracts notice of geneticists
Dario Lupianez is the author of dense scientific papers with titles including “Breaking TADs: How alterations of chromatin domains result in disease.” Now he, as one member of an international team of molecular biologists, is also a co-author of a paper on the extraordinary genetics of celebrity cat Lil Bub....
Police: Two Florida sisters committed ‘the perfect murder.’ A love triangle exposed the truth.
Their father was old and frail, ground down by his 85 years of life and hounded by cancer and dementia. He would die soon, his grown daughters Mary-Beth Tomaselli and Linda Roberts reasoned. They decided to help him make an early exit, police now say. Anthony Tomaselli’s two children meticulously...
Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll reorient Facebook toward encryption, privacy
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to Facebook’s services on Wednesday, saying in a blog post that he would spend the next several years reorienting the company’s apps toward encryption and privacy. The moves — outlined in broad strokes rather than as a set of specific product changes —...
