WASHINGTON (AP) – Ever since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump’s social media account, the White House has offered shifting responses. First it dismissed “fake outrage,” then it deleted the post and blamed a staff member. Trump later told reporters Friday that “I didn’t make a mistake.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Department of Justice will allow members of Congress to review unredacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein starting on Monday, according to a letter that was sent to lawmakers.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years gave grieving families fake ashes. Family members told Judge Eric Bentley they have had recurring nightmares about decomposing flesh and maggots since learning what happened to their loved ones.
NEW YORK (AP) – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore funding to a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey on Friday, ruling just as construction was set to shut down on the massive infrastructure project.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about the U.S. talks with Iran, his office said Saturday, as concerns remain high about possible regional conflict.
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistani security forces raided multiple locations and arrested four suspects, including the alleged mastermind, behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of the capital that killed 31 people, the interior minister said Saturday.
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.
Savannah Guthrie gets top billing every weekday morning when the “Today” show introduces its cast. In an anguishing twist, the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother has made Guthrie herself the top story, too.
CAIRO (AP) – The head of Yemen’s ruling leadership council has named a new cabinet, weeks after deadly clashes in the country’s south and the dissolution of a separatist group. The escalation has exposed cracks in a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Rashad al-Alimi announced the cabinet in a presidential decree late Friday.
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