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WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered up a notable response Sunday to a leading GOP senator’s assertion that President Donald Trump was trying to “publicly castrate” the secretary by undercutting his diplomacy. “I checked — I’m fully intact,” Tillerson deadpanned, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The notion of Trump running […]

Tannah Butterfield’s foster parents have been trying to adopt her and her two siblings for years. Then, a security camera captured the moment earlier this week when the 11-year-old girl was told that they were finally being adopted. The 11-year-old from South Jordan, Utah was in class when the school’s office manager Jackie Alexander got

A sukkah erected on the campus of Kansas State University was damaged by severe weather and not vandalism as first reported. The sukkah was found bent, destroyed and wrapped around a car on the night of October 6. It was initially believed that the sukkah had been vandalized, since its pieces were found around the

Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West) After Kristallnacht and the Anschluss, Felix and Margarethe Steiner fled their native Vienna for the warm embrace of a decidedly chillier destination: Fargo, North Dakota. The Jewish couple crossed the Atlantic Ocean

The United States’ National Portrait Gallery has announced that two up-and-coming African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, have been selected to paint the official portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. The Smithsonian Institution, parent organization of the National Portrait Gallery, said Friday that President Obama had specifically requested to

Steve Bannon has a message for “the good folks at Vanity Fair”, stating Donald Trump will “not only finish his term” but gain a landslide 400 electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election. Speaking at the controversial Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, Bannon hit back at a report from Vanity Fair that suggested he

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—As the death toll rose to 40, firefighters struggled Saturday to get the upper hand against several massive wildfires that have ravaged Northern California for almost a week. Strong winds kicked up overnight in the central Napa Valley region, causing some fires to spread and triggering evacuations in Sonoma and elsewhere, officials said.

The California Public Utilities Commission has begun an investigation into whether Pacific Gas and Electric’s maintenance of its power infrastructure in Sonoma and Napa counties may have played a role in the deadly fires in those regions. The regulatory agency sent a letter to the utility ordering that it preserve all equipment possibly related to

Larry Flynt, the founder and publisher of Hustler magazine is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Fox Anchor Liz Claman, who broke the story, tweeted an image of an advert for the money. Flynt himself subsequently retweeted the story. Hustler had not replied to a request