Month: July 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities were scrambling to restore electricity to Manhattan following a power outage that knocked out Times Square’s towering electronic screens, darkened “Major Power Outage In New York Blacks Out Large Swaths Of City”

President Donald Trump launched an inaccurate, vitriolic attack against progressive Democratic congresswomen on Sunday, referring to them as foreign-born and telling them to “go back “Trump Urges Democratic Congresswomen To ‘Go Back’ To Other Countries In Racist Rant”

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she blames Russian bots for helping stir up the frenzy that Donald Trump, then a candidate for president, helped set off over “Kamala Harris Rips Russian Bots For Kaepernick Furor, Says They’re Coming For Her”

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 75-year-old Louisiana woman who founded an African American history museum was discovered dead in the trunk of a car, “Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Founder Of African American Museum, Found Dead In Car Trunk”

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali forces Saturday morning ended an all-night siege on a hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo, in which the “2 Americans Among 26 Killed In Somalia Hotel Siege”

Horror author Stephen King talked about the similarities between a fictitious character he created more than 40 years ago and President Donald Trump in a new “Stephen King Hits Donald Trump With Old ‘Boogeyman’ Character Comparison”

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost earlier this month criticized comments by agents who were members of a secretive Facebook group that derided immigrants and “Border Chief Was In Facebook Group That Joked About Migrant Deaths: Intercept”

You win some, you lose some ― that’s the case for World Cup soccer star Allie Long. On Thursday, less than a week after helping “Allie Long Needs New Key To New York After Hers Was Stolen In Los Angeles”

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Friday defended former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), his running mate in the 2012 presidential election, following a slew of “Mitt Romney Defends Paul Ryan Amid Trump Attacks: 2012 Election Loss Was My Fault”

A Florida woman was jailed on felony charges thanks to a viral video she took showing her daughter licking a tongue depressor at a doctor’s “Florida Mom Arrested After Video Of Daughter Licking Tongue Depressor Goes Viral”