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A woman claims that esteemed scholar, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel molested her as a teenager, squeezing her “ass” at a charity event in New York three decades ago. In a “Me Too” post on Medium last week, Jennifer Listman, a former doctoral student at New York University and researcher at Yale University, recounts

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — The wine country wildfires destroyed at least 8,400 homes and other buildings, authorities said Monday, a significant increase in the already staggering property loss. Efforts continued by firefighters to gain control of the fires and by searchers looking for more victims. The death toll as of Monday remained at 42, making

Joe Biden At a joint event with Ohio Gov. John Kasich held Tuesday at the University of Delaware, former Vice President Joe Biden warned liberals against suppressing free speech. “You should be able to listen to another point of view, as virulent as it may be,” Biden said, when asked what could be done to

An American museum is casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s reported claim to possess an original Renoir — revealing to have owned the Impressionist painting in question for the past 84 years. According to a former Trump biographer, the US leader claims to own the original “Two Sisters (On the Terrace),” an oil-on-canvas painted by

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Monday disputed criticism from a soldier’s widow about his call to console her, escalating a week-old controversy over the president’s belated response to the deaths of four Americans after an Oct. 4 ambush of U.S. forces in Niger. Two days after the funeral of her husband, Sgt. La David T.

WASHINGTON — Like a feuding family that still shares a dinner table, President Donald Trump will join Senate Republicans at lunch Tuesday in the ornate Mansfield Room at the U.S. Capitol. Pass the gravy and a side of awkward. But any discomfort is expected to dissipate quickly, thanks to a dish every Republican senator can

President Donald Trump brought up a campaign promise during a March meeting with the U.S. senators from Alaska, asking whether he could roll back President Barack Obama’s 2015 decision to rename the tallest mountain on the continent, spokespeople for the senators confirmed to Newsweek on Monday. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan were meeting with

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday vowed there would be “no change” to rules for 401(k) plans, seeking to douse speculation that the Republican tax overhaul bill being drafted by Congress would include new limits on retirement savings. “This has always been a great and popular middle class tax break that works, and it

WASHINGTON — As more states and counties take immigration policy into their own hands, California is stepping up its fight to protect immigrants in the country illegally by not only refusing to detain immigrants slated for deportation, but now also by declining to tell federal immigration officials when they will be released from local jails.