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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned the nation when she defeated longtime Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a Democratic primary back in June. In vanquishing Crowley, who held the fourth-highest position in Democratic House leadership, Ocasio-Cortez showed the appeal a political newcomer can have in a party increasingly fed up with its old ways.

Children jump off a shipwreck in Tuvalu. | (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images for Lumix)

Paul Manafort's trial is coming to an end with some curious new developments.

IKEA is setting aside its signature minimalist design style for something a little more ... ostentatious.

At least 324 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala have died in the past nine days after heavy rain caused severe flooding, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

The income gap keeps growing. Chief executives at 350 of the largest companies in the U.S. now make 312 times more than their average employee, research from the Economic Policy Institute found.

The federal prosecutors handling the fraud case against Paul Manafort spent two weeks laying out their case before the jury. But when it comes to their lunch orders, they remain decidedly mum.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway reported to her job at the White House on Friday morning, donning a bright pink blouse and a glowing smile. But, in a development most Americans can understand, her cheery demeanor faltered when she actually had to start working.

China's military is "likely training for strikes" against the U.S. and is rapidly expanding its long-range bomber operations, a Pentagon report released on Thursday warned.

The Pentagon announced Thursday night that the flashy, Bastille Day-like military parade President Trump had demanded would be pushed backed to at least 2019, but it did not give a reason. On Friday morning, Trump offered an explanation: The "local politicians who run Washington" had thwarted him with their financial demands.

Support for President Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Appellate Judge Brett Kavanaugh, is lower than the support for failed 2005 justice nominee Harriet Miers and only slightly higher than the support for approving failed nominee Robert Bork, the last nominee to come up short in a Senate confirmation vote, according to a CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday. Including Bork, Kavanaugh is the only nominee whom a plurality of Americans don't want to see confirmed, the poll found.

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the U.S. is prepared to impose more sanctions on Turkey if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refuses to release an American pastor held on suspicion of supporting a failed coup attempt. "We put sanctions on several of the Cabinet members," Mnuchin said Thursday during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. "We have more that we're planning to do if they don't release him quickly." The comments escalated a diplomatic battle that has contributed... Читать дальше...

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A day after President Trump revoked former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance, 12 former top intelligence officials criticized the move in a forcefully worded letter, and defended Brennan as an "honorable" public servant. Separately, the commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, retired Adm. William McRaven, said in a Washington Post op-ed that Brennan was "a man of unparalleled integrity." Trump on Wednesday accused Brennan of making "unfounded and outrageous allegations" against his administration. Читать дальше...

The Texas Rangers were so pleased with this triple play at the top of the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Rangers on Thursday night, they put three versions of it in their highlight reel.

On Thursday morning, Omarosa Manigault Newman released a recording of a December 2017 conversation with Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, in which she appeared to offer the just-fired Manigault Newman $15,000 a month for what didn't sound like very taxing work on President Trump's re-election campaign.

What does Elizabeth Warren want? Maybe she wants to be America's 46th president. We just don't know. But one thing we know for sure is that she wants to radically change the way corporations are governed in the United States.

America's economic expansion is now old enough that people are wondering what will cause the next bust. There are no obvious culprits. But one suspect skulking in the shadows arguably deserves more attention than it's getting: the rise of corporate borrowing.

Researchers in Denmark have a whimsical idea for lighting city streets and sidewalks: glow-in-the-dark trees.

When Steve Jobs took to the stage in 2008 to announce the second iPhone and, just as importantly, the then-brand new App Store, he was selling consumers one simple thing: choice. Whether you wanted to play games, read the news, watch videos, or do a thousand other things, there was something for whatever your heart desired.

The #MeToo comebacks are accelerating.

Sunday marked Chris Hardwick's first night hosting Talking Dead since he was accused of being emotionally abusive in a former relationship. Tuesday saw R. Kelly announce a performance at Madison Square Garden, despite being in the midst of far more pernicious accusations. The same day, the new show from Matthew Weiner of Mad Men fame released its first trailer, as sexual harassment allegations made against him last year seem to have fallen by the wayside. Читать дальше...

Two days after a Pennsylvania grand jury released an 884-page report detailing more than 1,000 cases of child sex abuse by 300 "predator priests" in six dioceses dating back to the 1940s, the Vatican responded Thursday, condemning "unequivocally the sexual abuse of minors." Responding to the report specifically — which also documented widespread cover-ups of the child rape and abuse by bishops and other church leaders — Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said "there are two words that can express the feelings faced with these horrible crimes... Читать дальше...

Omarosa Manigault Newman's new White House tell-all has some eye-catching rumors about first lady Melania Trump, including that she chooses her wardrobe to irk President Trump and can't wait to divorce him after Trump leave office. "That is going to be tough on Trump, because whatever lawyer she gets is already better than his," Stephen Colbert joked on Thursday's Late Show. Whether or not those allegations are true, "there are other signs Melania is distancing herself from Trump," he said, including... Читать дальше...

Late Thursday, a dozen former U.S. intelligence chiefs dating back to the Reagan administration joined retired Adm. William McRaven in openly criticizing President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance for what appear to be political reasons. The six former CIA directors, five deputy CIA directors, and one director of national intelligence said in their open letter they felt compelled to respond after Trump's "ill-considered and unprecedented remarks... Читать дальше...

It all started with one tree.

In 1979, Padma Shri Jadav "Molai" Payeng came across several snakes on Majuli Island in Assam, India. Flooding brought the snakes to the island, but due to erosion, there wasn't any shade and the snakes died from the heat. Payeng was 16 at the time, and he decided he was going to do something so this never happened again: he planted a sapling, and continued to plant one a day for the next 35 years.

Majuli is the world's largest river island, and 39 years after Payeng planted his first sapling... Читать дальше...

In 2015, when Stephen Colbert was hosting the Kennedy Center tribute to Carole King, Aretha Franklin sang King's "Natural Woman" just a few feet away from him, Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show, paying his respects to Franklin, who died Thursday. "And as she started, I said to the man standing next to me, one of the stagehands, I said, 'Man, I wish I could have seen her when she was younger, when she was in full voice.' And boy am I stupid. Because this is what happened."