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President Trump on Saturday described former lawyer Michael Cohen’s taping of a private conversation between them as “totally unheard of & perhaps illegal,” but he reassured supporters that he has done nothing wrong. Trump did not mention Cohen by name but appeared to be responding to reports that Cohen recorded a conversation with him in […]

Starters Cafe in Ohio ends promotion offering discount to parishioners after a secular organization cried foul. A seemingly harmless discount to parishioners who wanted a good meal after church backfired on a Ohio restaurant after a secular organization cried foul. The owners of the Starters Cafe in Cheviot, Ohio, offered a 10-percent discount to those […]

The death toll from a capsized duck boat that sank Thursday night during a thunderstorm on a Missouri lake has jumped to 17, according to officials. Children are among the dead, although authorities have not provided an exact breakdown of the victims. Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader announced Friday morning that the number of fatalities […]

The 29-year-old Russian woman accused of covertly working as a foreign agent while living in the United States allegedly offered to have sex with an unnamed individual in return for a job in the United States, prosecutors said Wednesday. And that’s not all. According to new court filings, Maria Butina allegedly “gained access” to “an extensive […]

A parolee who allegedly cut off his ankle monitor has been taken into custody as a suspect in a series of killings in the Houston area, police said Tuesday. Jose Gilberto Rodriguez, 46, is a suspect in at least three slayings in the past week, with police calling him a “possible serial killer” at a […]

Former President Barack Obama, in a rare post-presidency speech abroad, took several thinly veiled shots at his successor and other populist “right-wing billionaires” — while openly touting a controversial liberal push for “universal income.” In one of his biggest speeches since leaving the White House, Obama delivered the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg, […]

In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Chris Wallace, Putin dismisses claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election, says Russia would react negatively to the expansion of NATO, blames terrorists for civilian casualties in Syria. The Russian president sat down for the interview airing on “Special Report” Monday after his summit earlier in […]

“You stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fan boy,” Schwarzenegger said in a Twitter video directed at Trump.  “I was asking myself when you are going to ask him for an autograph or a selfie or something like that.” Schwarzenegger in the 45-second video accuses Trump of attacking the intelligence community and […]

A Massachusetts police officer and an elderly woman were killed Sunday after a suspect attacked the officer with a rock, took his gun and shot him in the head and chest, officials said. Weymouth police officer Michael Chesna, 42, was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly before 8 a.m. The unidentified woman was fatally […]

A man wanted for questioning in the murder of a college student shot three police officers in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday during a series of firefights that began at a motel and ended with his death when he bolted from a house with his rifle blazing, authorities said. The shooting erupted just after noon […]

Newly released records show an Idaho man who was found dead in a lake in March did not drown but had lethal levels of Benadryl in his system. His wife, who was wanted on grand theft charges, has remained missing since failing to appear at her arraignment in June. Laurcene (Lori) Barnes Isenberg, 64, told […]

John Schnatter quits as chairman after using racial slur during a conference call on how to handle controversial situations. Embattled pizza chain Papa John’s on Friday moved to erase the memory of founder John Schnatter — literally. The chain, with 5,212 locations, said it would remove the 56-year-old executive’s likeness from its logo, promotional materials and other […]