Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer handling the response to the Russia investigation, said President Trump has instructed all White House staff members to cooperate with Robert S. Mueller III’s team of investigators. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump is confident…

DETROIT— Hard conversations about race have been at the heart of the Women’s March from the moment it began to take shape last fall, and at the Women’s Convention in Detroit this weekend, they were front and center once again. “Today, we are going to talk about black women,” Symone Sanders, former…

Houston Astros’ first baseman Yuli Gurriel has been banned from five games next season for making a racist gesture in the dugout during Friday night’s Game 3 of the World Series. Gurriel had just hit a home run off of Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitcher Yu Darvish, who is Japanese-Iranian and was born in…

British actor Charlie Heaton was denied entry into the U.S. after “trace amounts of cocaine were found in his luggage” at Los Angeles International Airport a week ago, according to The Associated Press . Law enforcement officials told The Hollywood Reporter that the actor admitted to consuming the…

DETROIT— Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) launched into a lengthy critique of President Donald Trump at the Women’s Convention here on Saturday, at one point leading attendees in chants of “Impeach 45!” that reverberated through the convention hall. The congresswoman was the featured speaker,…

If you’re still scrambling for the perfect costume this Halloween, you can chill. Because you’re not going to top Keki. Photos of the Hungarian puli’s stellar costume started going viral after appearing on various social media sites this week. If you’re not familiar with Hungarian pulis, know that…

Two of South Korea’s 24 nuclear reactors. The country has a huge stockpile of spent fuel from which it can extract plutonium — enough for more than 4,300 bombs, according to a report. Jean Chung/Bloomberg, via Getty Images As North Korea races to build a weapon that for the first time could threaten…

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — White supremacists, neo-Nazis and fascists descended on a Middle Tennessee town Saturday for a “White Lives Matter” rally, striking fear into communities desperate to avoid the kind of violence that visited Charlottesville, Virginia, nearly three months ago. But it was met with…

Shortly before a federal grand jury filed the first charges in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, conservatives were renewing their calls for the attorney to resign. Mueller, who is leading the Justice Department’s investigation as special…

Former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to show up for jury duty next month after being called to serve in Cook County, Illinois. “ He made it crystal clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident of this community,” Tim Evans, chief…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. ― In post-Charlottesville America, any large gathering of racists and fascists becomes both spectacle and specter. The threat of violence is omnipresent. Locals must “brace” themselves for “ chaos and bloodshed .” Everyone dreads “another Charlottesville.” Dread is what Nazis…

MONEY ISLAND, N.J. ― Meghan Wren remembers the day when a young bald eagle ― fluffy with the mottled-brown plumage of an adolescent ― landed on the dock next door and started pulling apart a fish carcass. They were having a potluck for Memorial Day, and about a dozen neighbors were gathered around,…

It’s 2 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon and Fernando Gomez doesn’t know where he and his 1-year-old daughter will sleep tonight. For the past eight months, the 24-year-old resident of Santa Rosa, California, and his daughter have been sleeping on friends’ couches or in his car. In early October, relief…

There have been so many horrifying stories about male predatory behavior since the Harvey Weinstein story broke earlier this month, but one quote has truly stood out. In a damning memo about her boss, a Weinstein Co. employee named Lauren O’Connor neatly explained how the Hollywood producer could…

“ The Daily Show ” is here with your annual reminder that blackface is a really stupid and racist way to mark Halloween . Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. dressed as a vampire to explain how the concept of white people applying black makeup to mark the spooky occasion (even if they aren’t intending to be…

Actor Woody Harrelson has recalled the “brutal” meal he once had with President Donald Trump . On Friday’s broadcast of “ Real Time with Bill Maher ,” the star of the upcoming Lyndon B. Johnson biopic “ LBJ ” explained how he was invited along to the 2002 dinner with the future president by retired…

Actresses Annabella Sciorra and Daryl Hannah opened up to The New Yorker about their own Harvey Weinstein stories, describing the terror that they say the abuse left them with. Sciorra, known for her role as Gloria Trillo in “The Sopranos,” accused the Hollywood mogul of raping her and then…

Former president Barack Obama speaks at a rally in support of Phil Murphy, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, in Newark, N.J., on Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Since leaving the White House in January, former president Barack Obama has turned heads , slipping…

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., reportedly has approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, CNN said Friday evening. According to the network, the charges are sealed under order from a…

The White House on Friday confirmed its official stance on the women accusing President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct : They are lying. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the position in a press conference on Friday afternoon after CBS News reporter Jacqueline Alemany…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday became the latest party to question Puerto Rico Power Authority’s decision to award Whitefish Energy a $300 million contract to restore the island’s hurricane-ravaged electrical grid. “Based on initial review and information from PREPA, FEMA has…

Only a small fraction of the thousands of Colorado voters who withdrew their registrations following a controversial request for voter information from President Donald Trump’s voter fraud probe have chosen to reregister less than two weeks ahead of election day. 8,983 people have canceled their…

At a closed-door meeting earlier this month, NFL owners gathered to discuss players protesting racial inequality during the national anthem. Among the several voices in the room who opposed the protests was Texans owner Bob McNair, who said of the protesting players, “We can’t have the inmates…

As HBO’s “The Deuce” wraps up its first season, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Candy is trying earnestly to get America’s porn industry running. The Martino brothers played by James Franco, meanwhile, have largely moved the other sex workers of Times Square yore off the streets; instead, they’ve taken up at…

One of the most stunning parts of the White House’s debacle over Donald Trump ’s recent call to a Gold Star family was how it caught both the president and the chief of staff in outright lies. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told a story to discredit a congresswoman that turned out to be…

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) speaks to the media about tax legislation on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) stands behind him. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Paul D. Ryan has traveled a long way from the soaring rhetoric he delivered on his first day as House speaker.…

HOUSTON -- Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred issued Yuli Gurriel a five-game suspension on Saturday with full knowledge that some segments of the baseball community -- and perhaps people who have never even seen a baseball game -- would be upset by the timing or the message or the perceived…

The Spanish government has said it would welcome the participation of sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont in new elections. The central government in Madrid has ordered that fresh elections for the regional parliament of Catalonia should take place in December. It stripped Catalonia of its…

(CNN) At least 10 people were killed Saturday when a car bomb was set off outside a hotel near Somalia's presidential palace Saturday -- two weeks after the deadliest car bombings in the nation's modern history. The blast, outside the Nasa Hablod Two Hotel, near the Villa Somalia presidential…

A tropical storm watch was issued for coastal South Florida from Miami-Dade County to the Upper Keys at 11 a.m. Saturday, as a tropical depression formed from a patch of gusty weather southwest of Cuba. The depression is expected to reach tropical storm strength, which means winds of 39-73 mps, as…

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has expanded the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal with the kickoff Friday of #MeTooCongress — and a video recounting her own experience on Capitol Hill. While working as a congressional staffer in her early 20s,…

Scarlett Johansson can’t come to the phone right now, because Taylor Swift just stole her gig. And it didn’t even really belong to her anyway. The pop star released the second music video of her “Reputation” era at midnight on Friday for the single “Ready For It,” a thumping anthem from her upcoming…

Impact on California Real Estate after the Wildfires Firefighters continue to battle the 22 large wildfires that continue to burn through seven counties in California, including the famed wine-producing areas of Napa and Sonoma. About 3,500 homes and buildings have been incinerated by the blazes,…

WASHINGTON ― Deedra Abboud, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, is happy to see Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) speak out about what he called “personal attacks, … threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, [and] flagrant disregard for truth or decency,” an apparent criticism of…

Donald Trump returned to his favorite network Wednesday for a chummy sit-down interview with Lou Dobbs of Fox Business, during which the anchor showered him with praise and allowed the president to speak at length about “fake news” and his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton. The interview, which aired…

China has revealed its new senior leadership committee, breaking with tradition by not including a clear successor to President Xi Jinping. The omission cements Mr Xi's grip on China for the next five years, a day after his name and his teachings were written into the constitution. But it raises…

In 1922, Albert Einstein scribbled down words of wisdom on a piece of paper he left with a Tokyo bellboy instead of a tip. “A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest,” the note, which was written while the physicist was on a lecture tour in Japan,…

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WASHINGTON ― Ben Carson said Wednesday that people who doubt his qualifications to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs are just a bunch of dumb-dumbs. “You know, people are so stupid,” Carson said at an event hosted by The Hill. The neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential…

George Takei zinged President Donald Trump when tweeting about his Halloween costume Wednesday morning. The “ Star Trek ” actor and activist revealed that he was “ thinking of going ” as Trump this Oct. 31 “because some clowns are just so terrifying.” It’s not clear how tongue-in-cheek his comment…