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Rep. Adam Schiff says it “strains credulity” to believe President Donald Trump pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on election meddling during their meeting at the Group of 20 summit Friday, and lambasted the proposed US-Russia cybersecurity team. “How can we really believe that the President pressed Putin hard when only the day before he was […]

Tens of thousands of Turkish citizens arrived in Istanbul on Sunday after marching 250 miles over three-and-a-half weeks to demand the government loosen its stranglehold on the country’s democracy. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), finished the last kilometer of his long trek alone and was met with huge applause and […]

The government’s former top ethics watchdog says he thinks more work needs to be done to make federal ethics rules stronger. Walter Shaub, who resigned as director of the Office of Government Ethics last Thursday, explained his decision on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “I really always thought that the ethics rules were strong enough […]

A Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, drew about 50 Klan members and supporters Saturday — and several hundred counterprotesters, authorities said. Members of the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — some wearing Klan robes and carrying Confederate flags — arrived in midday to protest the city’s plan to […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell surprised the White House and many Republicans last week when he floated the idea that his party might end up working with Democrats if they fail to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. McConnell’s words sound like more of a threat than a promise, particularly to intransigent Republicans who […]

There are two Donald Trumps: the “real” one and the “fake” one. We saw both on display during the President’s Europe trip this past week. The fake Trump is the one who shows glimmers of being thoughtful, informed and presidential. We saw that Trump during his speech in Poland this week, when the Wall Street […]

Firefighters in California continue to battle growing wildfires amid a record-breaking heatwave and predictions of storms that could make things worse. Already, hundreds of homes have been evacuated as the blazes continued to grow Sunday. The Whittier Fire in Santa Barbara County has claimed more than 7,800 acres, the county tweeted about 7:15 a.m. California […]

Police shot and killed a man Sunday morning who spent several hours firing a gun from a boat anchored off an island near Seattle. The shooting ended an incident that had begun about 8:30 p.m. local time Saturday, Bainbridge Island Police Chief Matthew Hamner told CNN Sunday morning. Police received calls about a man firing […]

President Donald Trump, hours after returning from his second foreign trip as president, declined to refute the Russian account of his meeting with Vladimir Putin, leaving their assertion that he accepted the Russian president’s denial of 2016 election meddling unchallenged. And he declared the US and Russia may create “an impenetrable” cybersecurity group that will […]

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can. Spins a box office any size, catches moviegoers just like flies. Look Out! Here comes the Spider-Man. “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” the latest reboot starring the friendly neighborhood web-slinger, brought in an estimated $117 million for its North American opening this weekend. The film, which stars Tom Holland as Peter […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi tweeted Sunday that he has arrived in the “liberated city of Mosul” and “congratulates the heroic fighters and the Iraqi people in achieving this great victory.” However, state TV reported Sunday that ISIS militants are still holding out in one neighborhood of Mosul. Mosul is Iraq’s biggest metropolis outside of […]

1. Amazon Prime Day: Get ready for a 30-hour shopping marathon. Monday is Prime Day, Amazon’s annual day of deals for Prime members. The shopping bonanza will begin at 9 p.m. ET on July 10 and run until 3 a.m. ET on July 12. New deals will be offered every five minutes, according to Amazon. […]

In Warsaw, crowds waved American flags. In Germany, cartoonish effigies of the American President were hoisted instead. For President Donald Trump, a second foreign trip was again a study in contrasts, the quick-shifting reaction to his controversial tenure encapsulating the divided world he and other leaders at the G20 summit confront. Stopping for 15 hours […]

Olympic gold medalist Scott Brash was disqualified from a top showjumping event in Portugal Saturday after traces of blood were found on his horse Hello Forever. The Briton had jumped a clear round to secure victory for his team Miami Glory in the Global Champions League event in Cascais before an official from the international […]

A ceasefire brokered by the US, Russia and Jordan went into effect Sunday in southwest Syria as part of an agreement hailed as a precursor to greater cooperation between Russia and the US over the war-ravaged country. The plan was announced Friday at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, after a meeting between US President […]

A ceasefire brokered by the US, Russia and Jordan went into effect Sunday in southwest Syria. The plan was announced Friday at the G20 summit in Hamburg after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The international efforts will take place in the province of Deraa and along the […]

Eighty years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific, a newly discovered photo aims to finally put the mystery of what happened to the famed pilot to rest. A History channel documentary quotes experts who say the blurry image shows Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan alive after their plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean. […]

PENFIELD – Programs have been announced for July 21-30 at the Parker Dam State Park. Friday, July 21 iPad Interpretive Apps:  8:30 p.m. – Campground Amphitheater  Check out the park’s new iPad and the interpretive apps that staff can use with visitors.  Birding and night sky apps and more; all projected onto the big screen […]

GANT’s ICYMI gives readers a look back upon the most noteworthy stories of their work week. It contains the big headlines, as well as a few stories you might have missed. It might even include a story or two of the lighter side. GANT’s ICYMI will be posted each weekend for your perusal. For most […]

Diabetes is an expensive and potentially debilitating disease. Since only about 50 percent of adults with diabetes have ever attended a diabetes self-management class, Penn State Extension will offer two “Dining with Diabetes” series of classes to help people who are at-risk for or have diabetes gain a better understanding of how to manage Type 2 diabetes.  The class will begin Aug. […]

An Alaskan volcano that has erupted several times since last year spewed an ash cloud up to 30,000 feet, leading to an aviation warning. The Bogoslof volcano erupted Saturday, sending ash over the Aleutians Islands, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) said. It “remains at a heightened state of unrest and in an unpredictable condition, and […]

Washington authorities warned residents of a Seattle suburb to shelter in place and avoid windows as a shooter in a boat fired at the shoreline and officers late Saturday night. “We have an individual in a vessel in Eagle Harbor who has fired shots at the shoreline and at law enforcement officers,” said Kellie Stickney, […]

Tens of thousands of Turkish citizens have marched an arduous 250 miles over three weeks for a protest in Istanbul on Sunday, to demand their government loosen its stranglehold on the country’s democracy. The “March for Justice” has grown from a modest one-man protest by opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who vowed to walk from […]

A wounded officer’s lawsuit filed in federal court in Louisiana alleges Black Lives Matter and several of its leaders are responsible for last year’s ambush on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. The July 17, 2016, attack by gunman Gavin Long claimed the lives of two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy and wounded two deputies […]

DUBOIS – A 22-year-old DuBois man, Terron Kenneth Davis-Williams, was arrested Friday after a heroin bust, according to a special news release issued by DuBois city police. A controlled buy was allegedly made from Williams of 50 stamp bags of heroin on West Washington Avenue. When officers approached him, he immediately fled east toward South […]