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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had some choice words for US President Donald Trump Friday, accusing the American leader of “mentally deranged behavior.” But it was Kim’s use of the term “dotard,” an insult dating back to the 14th century, that has set the internet alight. Searches for term have spiked in the wake […]

Quest’s Profitable Moment Enough is enough. That seems to be the message from South Africans angry at what they see as systemic corruption that has erupted in their country. Various campaigns orchestrated by PR firm Bell Pottinger, on behalf of the wealthy Gupta family, have been criticized as stirring up racial hatred. Clients abandoned Bell […]

The Bangladeshi Prime Minister has delivered a sharp judgment on neighboring Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled across the border to Bangladesh in recent weeks to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Addressing the UN General Assembly (UNGA) late Thursday, Bangladesh’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, said she did so with […]

“Silencio!” The shout comes, then as far as one can see, fists are raised in the air. Hope, at rescue scenes across the country, is measured in silence. Twenty-two hours after the 7.1 quake crashed through central Mexico, the sounds of a thousand people speaking, heavy machinery moving, and tractors dumping debris all come to […]

The search for a 12-year-old thought to be trapped in a Mexico City elementary school ended Thursday with the news that all students have been accounted for. But rescuers will continue their work, as signs suggest that someone may still be alive in the rubble, officials said. The news brought an abrupt end to a […]

North Korea’s foreign minister warned Thursday that Pyongyang could test a powerful nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action. The country’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, who was due to address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday but has since dropped out, told reporters […]

The large eye of Hurricane Maria lumbered toward the popular vacation islands of Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas on Thursday, leaving Puerto Rico and its Caribbean neighbors battered, drenched and largely without power. The core of Maria, a major hurricane, is forecast to pass just east of the Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas […]

North Korea’s foreign minister hinted Thursday that Pyongyang could test a powerful nuclear weapon in the Pacific Ocean in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action. The country’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, who was due to address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday but has since dropped out, told reporters […]

“Silencio!” The shout comes, then as far as one can see, fists are raised in the air. Hope, at rescue scenes across the country, is measured in silence. Twenty-two hours after the 7.1 quake crashed through central Mexico, the sounds of a thousand people speaking, heavy machinery moving, and tractors dumping debris all come to […]

North Korea’s foreign minister hinted Thursday that Pyongyang could test a powerful nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action. The country’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, who was due to address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday but has since dropped out, told reporters […]

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is apologizing after tweeting an anti-Semitic article titled “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars” on Thursday. Wilson has been critical of President Donald Trump and his use of Twitter — including a recent effort on GoFundMe to buy a stake of Twitter and convince the company to ban the […]

Five individuals were detained by the President of Turkey’s security detail at an event in New York Thursday afternoon, but were later released, police confirmed to CNN. There were no injuries and no arrests were made, Officer Tiffany Phillips of the New York Police Department said. The incident occurred while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was […]

William “Billy” Joseph Williams, 47, the beloved son, father, brother, uncle and friend, was called home to our Lord too soon on Sept. 5, 2017. He was taken from our arms, though never from our hearts. He was born Aug. 29, 1970 in Clearfield. He was a 1989 graduate of the West Branch High School. […]

Robert A. Hanna Sr., 75, of Houtzdale died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017 at Ridgeview Eldercare, Curwensville. Born Oct. 31, 1941 in Akron, NY, he was the son of the late James and Mabel (Webster) Hanna. On Sept. 1, 1971, he married Kathryn C (Rowles) Hanna, who preceded him in death Aug. 29, 2015. He was […]

It wasn’t long ago that being single after a certain age was considered a recipe for lifelong misery. Up until 1970, the average woman married before she was legally old enough to have a drink at her wedding, and the average man married at 23. A woman still single at the ripe old age of […]

Amid growing concern over Facebook’s sale of political ads to Russians, Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner have formally called for new legislation to enhance the transparency of online political advertisements, CNN has learned. Klobuchar and Warren sent a letter to their colleagues on Thursday inviting them to co-sponsor legislation that would among other […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says US President Donald Trump’s remarks to the United Nations threatening the hermit country reflect “mentally deranged behavior,” according to a statement released by North Korea’s state-run news agency, KCNA. In the statement, which was written in the first person, Kim says North Korea will make the US leader […]

The Homeland Security inspector general on Thursday dinged Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection for operating unauthorized, expensive protection details for its chiefs. The details, a practice since 2014, appear to be “more related to executive convenience and status than protection,” the inspector general report reads. The security arrangement isn’t cheap, either. […]

Facebook just announced something that might be a radical change to its advertising business. Key word: Might. Right now it’s hard to tell how significant it’ll really be. “We’re going to make political advertising more transparent,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday. The announcement is, among other things, an attempt to stave off government […]

She’s been the focus of the world’s criticism, scrutiny and censure as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims seek refuge in neighboring Bangladesh, escaping what the United Nations human rights chief has labeled a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” But analysts say Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar and a Nobel […]

I wept the night the Affordable Care Act passed. Through my closed office door in the White House, I could hear President Obama and my colleagues cheer as the final tally came in from the House of Representatives that, at long last, would send the ACA to his desk. But I wasn’t there. Sensing my […]

President Trump escalated pressure on North Korea as part of his ongoing economic warfare against Pyongyang. On Thursday, he issued an executive order that would penalize any company or person doing business with North Korea by either cutting off their access to the U.S. financial system or freezing their assets — or potentially both. Trump […]

Russia and China challenged the United States’ global leadership in United Nations speeches peppered with bare-knuckled criticism of the Trump administration’s hostility toward Iran, its “military hysteria” over North Korea, and its approach to the rest of the world. The foreign ministers used the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s first turn on the world stage […]

A near constant wind buffets the top deck of Boat 36826 as it patrols the seas north of Hong Kong’s largest island, Lantau. Sitting in a white plastic lawn chair, staring intently through a pair of large, black binoculars, Charlotte Lau pulls a multicolored scarf high over her face and zips up her grey hoodie. […]

Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking the FBI if it warned Donald Trump that Paul Manafort, whom he brought in as campaign chairman in 2016, was being watched by the agency because of his dealings with pro-Kremlin figures. And if there was no such FBI warning, Grassley says he wants to know why. The chairman of […]