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Here we go again: stock market panic. The British are rocking the world. Not with Beatles or Adele this time, but with the big Brexit referendum vote on June 23 over whether to remain in the European Union, or go it alone. Investors hate uncertainty, and Brexit offers a supersize dose of it. The usual […]

Serena Williams is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Just last week she was named the highest paid female athlete in the world, but even she has insecurities. Serena premiered her new documentary, “Serena” in New York City Monday night and revealed that she has struggled with her curves […]

It’s known as a war of attrition and a game of patience where accepting your fate is key, but this week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont ups the ante. The storied venue outside Pittsburgh hosts a record ninth U.S. Open, and provides a brutal backdrop for the year’s second major. Oakmont Country Club is often called […]

“Sex without consent is rape. It is, full-stop, rape.” Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech on rape culture and violence against women on Tuesday at the White House’s first-ever United State of Women Summit. The summit, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, is addressing everything from the pay gap to education […]

Authorities have responded to a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas, amid reports of an armed person inside the store “who may have hostages,” the Amarillo police said Tuesday. Residents are being asked to avoid the area. The Randall County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page that one person is armed inside the store and has […]

The rare Australian karrkaratul knows what it’s doing. Sightings of the marsupial mole are few and far between, so when it does come out to be admired it knows it has to look utterly fabulous. The Tjamu Tjamu Aboriginal Corporation, which works with the Kiwirrkurra people in the Western Desert of Australia, posted some pictures […]

President Barack Obama on Tuesday unleashed a blistering verbal assault on Donald Trump and his proposal for a ban on Muslims entering the country, saying the suggestion violates the principles of American democracy and dismissing the “yapping” from “politicians who tweet.” Obama also angrily pushed back against criticism for not using the term “radical Islamic […]

The Washington Post is not the first. Donald Trump has been denying press credentials to news outlets for nearly a year. It’s become known in media circles as “the blacklist” — a running catalog of newsrooms deemed by Trump to be unfair and banned from his campaign events accordingly. The list includes an assortment of […]

Hackers connected to the Russian government broke into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and stole opposition research on Donald Trump, the cybersecurity experts who responded to the intrusion said Tuesday. Two separate Russian intelligence-linked cyberattack groups were both in the DNC’s networks, Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, which responded […]

President Barack Obama on Tuesday pushed back against criticism that he doesn’t use the term “radical Islamic terrorism,” calling it “loose talk.” “Calling it by another name isn’t going to make (the problem) go away,” Obama said in Washington, adding, “This is a political distraction.” “Someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we’re fighting? […]

The man who killed a French police commander and a woman broadcast the scene of the attack live on Facebook Monday night, a French source close to the investigation told CNN. Larossi Abballa carried out the deadly knife attack in Magnanville, northwest of Paris, the source told CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank. He stabbed the […]

Not far from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, ancient gold mines dating back thousands of years lie abandoned deep beneath the scorched desert soil. An important source of minerals during the heydays of the ancient Roman and Egyptian civilizations, the mines now have a new function — as a guide in the […]

In a small office deep inside Rikers Island, the New York City jail notorious for violence and corruption, an inmate dressed in the facility’s requisite dark green pants and shirt sits on a metal folding chair trying to figure out how to pay the nearly $80,000 in child support he has accrued over the past […]

Comedian Samantha Bee’s reaction to the Orlando nightclub shooting was emotional, fiery and funny. She blasted the shooter, the NRA, Florida’s governor and gun culture in general during a searing segment Monday night on her show, “Full Frontal.” (Warning: graphic language) She said her job as TV host required her to “stand on stage and […]

For nearly three decades, Compton was infamous for gang violence and crime. This was fueled by the drug war of the late 1980s, the 1992 South Los Angeles civil unrest, and the devastating effects that the introduction of crack cocaine had in our community. We suffered from system failures and a loss of public trust, […]

Reeva Steenkamp’s father delivered a gut-wrenching plea Tuesday for Oscar Pistorius to be punished for murdering his daughter. Weeping on the witness stand, Barry Steenkamp said he still speaks to his daughter every day and thinks of her “every morning, afternoon and night. I think about her all the time.” Barry Steenkamp took the stand […]

Norman Casiano froze, certain that the gunman was standing inches from him. Casiano and dozens of other patrons at the Pulse Nightclub had crammed into a bathroom stall to hide from the shooter. And now, there was a figure looming right outside their bathroom stall door. More shots rang out. Then the person standing in […]

Emotions are still raw, in Orlando and throughout the nation, as America copes with the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in its history. Here’s the latest on the investigation, the reaction and more on those who lost their lives. 1. The latest The names of all 49 victims have now been released, and we […]

National tragedies can lay bare politicians’ souls. The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, Sunday exposed the two presumptive major party nominees — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton — to a penetrating examination of their characters and political instincts at a moment of crisis. The worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11 has […]

The killer of a French police officer and his partner broadcast the scene of the attack live on Facebook Monday night local time, a French source close to the investigation told CNN. The man who carried out the deadly knife attack in Magnanville, which is 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Paris, was Larossi Abballa, […]

From July, London commuters will no longer have to view advertisements that “conform to unhealthy or unrealistic body images,” the city’s transport authority announced. Making good on his campaign promise, newly-elected mayor Sadiq Khan said all advertising on the city’s transport network that is “likely to create body confidence issues, particularly among young people” will […]

Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon opened their late night broadcasts on Monday night with somber remarks regarding the mass shooting that took place in Orlando on Sunday. Colbert opened CBS’ “The Late Show” without titles or a monologue instead choosing to speak directly into the camera. “Naturally, we each ask ourselves what could we possibly […]

Cristiano Ronaldo is not just a soccer player — he’s an icon, a global marketing phenomenon, the highest-paid athlete on the planet, and the face of one of the game’s most famous clubs. The first sports star to have 200 million followers across social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Ronaldo is out on his […]

The father of the Orlando nightclub gunman said his son committed “an act of terror” by carrying out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. “His act was a terror act, but as far him being a terrorist. I’m not aware of,” said the father, Seddique Mateen in an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon. “This […]

President Barack Obama will travel to Orlando Thursday. Reports say the Orlando shooter visited the club where the massacre took place “multiple times.” Names of all 49 victims have now been released. Here’s a rundown of the latest developments, and where to find details: The investigation Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen visited Orlando’s Pulse nightclub […]