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The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized in the Indian capital with a chest infection and is feeling better, his spokesman said Wednesday. The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader is under medic... Read more
Magic Johnson abruptly quit as the Los Angeles Lakers' president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing his desire to return to the simpler life he enjoyed as a wealthy businessman a... Read more
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At least eight arrests have been made in connection with the kidnapping of an American tourist and her safari guide in Uganda's most popular national park, ABC News has learned. Uganda Polic... Read more
A search is intensifying for two Southern California hikers, who have been missing for days in the Mount Baldy area. Eric Desplinter, 33, and Gabrielle Wallace, 31, were last seen at about 1... Read more
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told lawmakers on Tuesday that a White House lawyer communicated with Treasury Department lawyers before they received a request from House Democrats for Pre... Read more
The release of American Kimberly Endicott by kidnappers in a Ugandan national park has reignited a debate over a longstanding U.S. policy to refuse to pay ransoms. While other countries have... Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday mocked U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Kremlin interference in the 2016 presidential election, saying "a mountain gave birt... Read more
The White House says President Donald Trump "will do whatever it takes" to protect Americans after a judge blocked the administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico to await... Read more
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday declared a public health emergency in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn amid a growing measles outbreak. As part of the declaration,... Read more
The Houston Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc recently held its 91st Anniversary Charter Day Celebration Banquet. Actor John M. Jones gave the keynote address on the topic “Th... Read more
The Defender Network’s Conversations & Coffee series continued recently with “Blacks & Browns: Our Common Ground,” a discussion led by County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Ga... Read more
This Woman’s Work recently held its inaugural IronWoman Brunch at the Norris Conference Center. The room bustled with over 80 women in attendance to hear from Vanessa E. Wyche, Deputy Direct... Read more
It's Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Let's start here. 1. 'Housecleaning' President Donald Trump's purge of the Department of Homeland Security continued Monday with the firing of Secret Service Dir... Read more
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city will lay off 47 municipal employees this week. The layoffs are a result of the implementation of Proposition B, which requires pay parity for fir... Read more
Beyoncé fans were sent into a tizzy after Netflix released the trailer for her upcoming documentary “Homecoming,” which captured the singer’s historic performance at Coachella in 2018.... Read more
A good Samaritan was fatally shot over the weekend while handing out $20 bills and paying for meals at a Florida restaurant, according to police. Police arrested Ezekiel Hicks, 25, on murder... Read more
Yujing Zhang, the Chinese national who sparked security concerns after she allegedly talked her way into the president’s Mar-a-Lago country club, had in her hotel room thousands of dollars i... Read more
In announcing that he will withdraw the United States from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that under the international agreement, the U.S. would... Read more
Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his third campaign for president with a speech in Pittsburgh that contained a few false and misleading statements: Biden said “we have the most pro... Read more
In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper examines Jared Kushner’s claim that Russia’s 2016 election interference amounted to little more than “a couple Facebook ads.” That’... Read more
In a CNN town hall, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic candidate for president, went too far when she said Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “not only has tried to defund special education, but... Read more
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report concluded that “[t]he Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion” — contrary to Jared Kushner’... Read more
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the latest version of his Medicare for All legislation on April 10, with 13 Democratic co-sponsors. Four of them, plus Sanders himself, are running for the Dem... Read more
The 2019 Webby Award for News & Politics website goes to … FactCheck.org. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced all the winners April 23. This is the sixth con... Read more
In an interview about the Mueller report, Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, distorted the facts in repeatedly making the case that there was “no obstruction” by Trum... Read more
The Russia report released April 18 contradicts President Donald Trump’s claims that special counsel Robert Mueller had two conflicts of interest that prevented him from conducting an impart... Read more
In the hours after the public release of the redacted report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller, President Donald Trump took to Twitter with a message that reads, in part, “NO OBSTRUCTIO... Read more
