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After getting a first-hand glimpse of the impact of South Sudan’s brutal civil war, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the US bears an important responsibility to push for an end to the conflict. Haley, the first Cabinet-level official in the Trump administration to go to sub-Saharan Africa, visited a refugee camp […]

The price of a college education rose faster than inflation, again. The increase in average tuition and fees charged by public and private colleges rose between 2.9% and 3.6% this year, according to The College Board’s annual report. Meanwhile, inflation remains at about 2%. The average annual price rose by $300 at public four-year colleges […]

Top Japanese companies are doing damage control once again. Industrial giant Kobe Steel is dealing with a global crisis this month after it owned up to falsifying data about products it sold to major brands like Boeing and Toyota. And last week, Nissan halted production of cars for the Japanese market because of problems with […]

Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote Tuesday night to repeal a rule that made it easier for Americans to sue their banks and credit card companies. Senators passed the measure by a vote of 51-50. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule blocks companies from using arbitration clauses to stop consumers from bringing class […]

Caution: This post contains spoilers about the latest episode of NBC’s “This Is Us.” This is…a twist. The latest episode of “This Is Us,” titled “Brothers,” may have appeared to draw its title from a storyline about Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) trying to get his sons, Randall and Kevin, to bond during a wilderness adventure, but […]

The U.S. government has issued a warning about a new ransomware attack that spread through Russia and Ukraine and into other countries around the world. Cybersecurity experts said the ransomware — which posed as an Adobe update before locking down computers and demanding money for people to get their files back — targeted Russian media […]

The leaders of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan have proposed holding off on acting on its September independence referendum in an effort to “act responsibly in order to prevent further violence,” in the face of the Iraqi government’s military response to the vote, a statement says. “As Iraq and Kurdistan are faced with grave and […]

A judge denied bond Tuesday for five Michigan teenagers charged with throwing a rock off a highway overpass and killing a passenger in a van. The group of teens, aged 15-17, were arraigned in Genesee County district courtroom. They are accused of throwing a 6-pound rock off an overpass near Flint, Michigan, on October 18, […]

Sen. Lamar Alexander said President Donald Trump praised the Tennessee Republican’s work on health care in the lunch with Republican senators Tuesday, but added the ball is now in the White House’s court. “He was speaking about something else, he saw me and turned to the side and said, ‘I appreciate your great work on […]

I can hear it now. The gloating emanating from the Breitbart News evening “editorial call.” Steve Bannon proudly declaring he’s claimed yet another “scalp” in his crusade against the Republican establishment. His minions egging him on — foaming at the mouth as they seemingly inch closer to a potential sweep of Republican primary challenges in […]

House Republicans announced a probe into the circumstances surrounding the sale of a uranium mining company to Russia’s Atomic Energy Agency, Rosatam, that was approved by the Obama administration in 2010. The deal had to be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a committee that is composed of representatives from several […]

A small Montana utility firm with ties to the Trump administration has won a major multimillion-dollar contract to help restore large portions of Puerto Rico’s crippled electrical grid. Whitefish Energy, a two-year old electrical utility firm, announced last week it secured a $300 million contract from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to repair and […]

Literary legend Leon Wieseltier is out of a job after he was accused of workplace harassment. The former literary editor of The New Republic had been working for the Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs’ social action organization. Emerson fired Wieseltier on Tuesday due to “past inappropriate workplace conduct.” The organization — which is led by […]

Chipotle just can’t catch a break. When it’s not making customers sick, people are staying away because of hurricanes. The burrito maker said sales rose by 17% and profit more than doubled in the third quarter. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Hurricanes Irma and Harvey took a giant bite out of […]

In the last two weeks, a politically extraordinary sequence of events has occurred in a politically exhausting year, perhaps marking the early formation of a new electoral dividing line. Last week, two former Presidents — Democrat Barack Obama and Republican George W. Bush — gave side by side speeches chastising the politics of Donald Trump. […]

Senators approved a $36.5 billion package Tuesday to respond to the spate of hurricanes and wildfires that have hit the country in recent months. The measure already passed the House and will go to President Donald Trump’s desk for his expected signature. The Senate vote was 82-17. All the “no” votes were Republicans, who cited […]

Hurricane Harvey has claimed another victim, about two months after making landfall in Texas. A 31-year-old man died last week after being diagnosed with a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection known as necrotizing fasciitis, the Galveston County Health District announced Monday. The man has been identified as Josue Zurita, according to CNN affiliate KHOU, and he […]

The tragedy in Niger involving the killing of four American soldiers by ISIS fighters raises several important legal questions. When questioned by the media, several leading senators, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, stated they were not aware that over 800 American troops were stationed in Niger. […]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, defending President Donald Trump against withering criticism from members of his own party, rattled off a list of accomplishments she believes the President has accomplished in his first 10 months in office. “I certainly think history is going to look at this President as somebody who helped defeat ISIS, […]

Twitter announced Tuesday that it will label all political advertising on its platform and provide information about who bought the ads and what they spent. The announcement comes as Twitter and other social media companies face scrutiny over their sale of ads to Russian trolls who sought to meddle in American politics, though it is […]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for an undocumented teen in detention in Texas to end her pregnancy against the objections of the Trump administration. The full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that 17-year-old Jane Doe is entitled to seek an abortion without delay. The 6-3 ruling reverses a decision last […]

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who has sparred frequently with President Donald Trump, will not run for re-election, he said Tuesday in a blistering floor speech bemoaning the changing tenor of politics in the United States. “If I have been critical, it’s not because I relish criticizing the behavior of the President of the […]

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who has sparred frequently with President Donald Trump, will not run for re-election, he said Tuesday in a blistering floor speech bemoaning the changing tenor of politics in the United States. “If I have been critical, it’s not because I relish criticizing the behavior of the President of the […]

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election in 2018, and then promptly took the Senate floor and began a lengthy screed against the state of Republican politics in the Trump era. Flake wrote a book titled “Conscience of a Conservative,” published in August, that featured a similar argument. He has […]

Harvey Weinstein’s conduct shocked the nation. Now, it could encourage some U.S. states to change their laws. Over the past two weeks, dozens of women have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault. Allegations against the producer span nearly three decades. Women didn’t just keep quiet because they were scared of retribution. Some worried that […]