A retired politician in Pennsylvania has been accused of indecently assaulting a 103-year-old woman. Police in Radnor Township have charged William Spingler, 75, with three counts of indecent assault on a person with a mental disability. Employees at the Wayne Center nursing home told police they…

IHLAS NEWS AGENCY via Getty Images First aid officers carry an injured woman at the site of an armed attack on January 1, 2017 in Istanbul. ISTANBUL, Jan 1 (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire on New Year revelers at a packed nightclub on the shores of Istanbul’s Bosphorus waterway on Sunday killing at…

Bettmann via Getty Images William Christopher, center, as Father Mulcahy on "M.A.S.H." surrounded by co-stars Wayne Rogers as Trapper John (left) and Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (right). Actor William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahy on “M.A.S.H.,” died Saturday at his…

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters U.S. President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters as he and his wife Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve celebration with members and guests at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 31, 2016. PALM BEACH, Fla. – President-elect Donald Trump, in…

Kodiak Greenwood via Getty Images The road along the Big Sur coast can be treacherous. Police are searching for a North Hollywood couple that haven’t been heard from after starting a planned weekend getaway to Big Sur. Olivia Hannah Gonzalez, 20, and Brian Fernandez, 21, took off on Dec. 23 and…

Remo Casilli / Reuters Pope Francis leads a mass on New Year's Day at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican January 1, 2017. (REUTERS/Remo Casilli) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged leaders to work together to fight the “plague of terrorism”, saying in his New Year’s…

It’s a photo so poignant and so symbolic you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s faked. And you wouldn’t be alone in that conclusion: Both Reddit and Snopes dismissed it as fake when it went viral earlier this year. And yet this is a real photo of a real billboard, featuring President-elect Donald Trump…

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A passenger is rappelled off the Sky Cabin ride at Knott’s Berry Farm. CBS Los Angeles BUENA PARK -- Twenty riders and one ride operator were rescued from a ride at the southern California amusement park, Knott’s Berry Farm on Friday night, with some being trapped for more than seven hours. The…

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Engaging in small talk sends plenty of people ― and introverts especially ― into panic mode. For others, small talk just feels shallow and aimless, like so: In the College Humor comics below, illustrator A.C. Stuart gives us a fail-proof defense against dreaded stop and chat : Noob the Loser/College…

Osman Orsal/Reuters Media freedom has undergone a “deep and disturbing” decline in several parts of the world and at the global level this year, according to a new release from Reporters Without Borders . Thus far in 2016, 57 journalists have been killed in connection with their work, 187 remain…

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Patton Oswalt was one of many celebrities who tweeted their condolences over both Carrie Fisher’s and her mother Debbie Reynolds’ sudden death. And he chose a little humor amid the overwhelming heartbreak. After news broke that Reynolds, 84, had died just one day after her daughter , one Twitter…

WASHINGTON — The Latest on United States-Israeli relations (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Democratic lawmakers are offering mixed reactions to Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech deploring Israeli settlement-building and defending the U.S. move not to veto a controversial U.N. resolution.…

President-elect Donald Trump answers questions from the media during transition team meetings at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) President-elect Donald Trump distanced himself Wednesday night from the Obama administration’s plans to…

By & by | Share Tweet Share Email Share Tweet Share Email Jason LaVeris/Getty Images In her day, Debbie Reynolds did it all. Subsequently, her day lasted for decades. The actress, who became a national treasure as the star of one of the most beloved movies of all time and went on to enjoy a nearly…

TOKYO — Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, just back from a visit to Pearl Harbor, has visited a Tokyo shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals. The visit Thursday, and one by another Cabinet minister the day before, drew rebukes from neighboring South Korea and China.…

Don Emmert/Getty Images Donald Trump thinks we should all just move on from worrying about whether Russia hacked the U.S. elections. President-elect Donald Trump is less than enthusiastic about some senators’ suggestion that Russia ― and perhaps even Vladimir Putin himself ― should be sanctioned for…

2016 has claimed yet another incredible force in Hollywood. Debbie Reynolds, the iconic actress and mother of Carrie Fisher, died on Wednesday , just one day after her beloved daughter. She was 84. Fisher died Tuesday at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack on a plane last week. She leaves…

President-elect Donald Trump meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office at the White House on Nov. 10. | Getty Donald Trump can’t decide whether he thinks the transition of power is going well or not. But he knows he doesn’t like how much attention Barack Obama is getting and is also…

Writer and director Byron Lane won’t soon forget his nearly three-year stint as Carrie Fisher’s personal assistant. Lane opened up about his time with the late “Star Wars” heroine and mental health advocate in an emotional Facebook post Wednesday. He shared on Facebook: Her nicknames for me were…

Twitter/Kumail Nanjiani The pantless passenger added to the effect with a phone charger that flashed different colors. There’s an unspoken decorum in airplane cabins that keeps all passengers relatively comfortable. Some individuals, however, don’t think the rules of common courtesy apply to them.…

Just one day after the death of her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, beloved Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds died Wednesday. She was 84. Todd Fisher, her son, confirmed his mother’s death to Variety. TMZ reported that Reynolds was hospitalized Wednesday for a medical emergency. She reportedly…

Newly released video of a July police shooting that left a man paralyzed contradicts the Texas officers’ claims that he threatened them with a weapon, his lawyer said. The dash-cam footage shows a Fort Worth officer shoot David Collie just seconds after the officer emerges from his car. At the same…

SAM AND BOZZY On the run after a failed mob hit, a grizzled hitman and an incompetent rookie must work together to escape the the clutches of their ruthless former employer. In this short film, Bozzy (played by Corey Neville) has been captured by mob boss Saretti (Vincenzo Prosperi) and Sam (Ernie…

Steve Martin deleted his tweet in memory of Carrie Fisher after some followers criticized his comments as sexist. PHOTOS: Carrie Fisher's Life in Pictures and Memorable Quotes On Tuesday, December 27, the funnyman tweeted and then deleted: ”When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most…

President Obama on Tuesday created new national monuments in a sacred tribal site in southeastern Utah and in a swath of Nevada desert, after years of political fights over the fate of the sites. The designations further cement Obama’s environmental legacy as one of the most consequential — and…

College basketball’s non-conference season is coming to a close, and to help you shake off post-holiday haze and the hangover of losing in your fantasy football playoffs, we’ll be providing you with some midseason primers to get you caught up on all the nation’s most important conferences. Today,…

Fotosearch via Getty Images We in the media made more mistakes in 2016 than in any previous year, ever. I feel confident in baldly stating that as incontrovertible fact. Where, after all, is the data to contradict me? And to whom would I have to apologize anyway? Amid all the hysterical palaver…

“Star Wars” fans around the country gathered to honor the late Carrie Fisher with lightsaber tributes fit for a princess and general. Fisher, best known for playing Princess Leia Organa in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died Tuesday at the age of 60. She was hospitalized days earlier after…

Jason LaVeris via Getty Images Todd Fisher, with to his mother, Debbie Reynolds, sister Carrie Fisher and niece Billie Lourd at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 25, 2015. Hours before his mother, Debbie Reynolds, suffered a fatal stroke , Todd Fisher logged on to Twitter to share a few…

DENVER (AP) — The older brother of JonBenet Ramsey is suing CBS and others for $750 million, saying his reputation was ruined after a television series that concluded he killed his 6-year-old sister two decades ago. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Burke Ramsey claims that the network, its production…

After I wrote What a Trump Presidency Means for Fighting Climate Change , a colleague suggested that I write an article with "5 concrete examples of on-the-ground things people can do." I've been mulling that over. You can readily find lists online of 5 things, 10 things, 50 and more things to do…