MEXICO CITY –  Ricardo Anaya’s supporters see him as a wunderkind — intelligent, eloquent and able to work a stage like a polished TED speaker. Detractors call him a treacherous and calculating politician who used his position to sideline potential party rivals. At 39, Anaya has already made history as the youngest candidate in Mexico’s Read More…

Commuting in the Big Apple has gotten so bad, a New Jersey man chose to cross the Hudson River on a paddle board to make his meeting on time — in a suit, no less. “I didn’t wanna pay for the toll,” recounted Scott Holt, a 32-year-old “struggling comedian” from Jersey City who braved rough Read More…

Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was stabbed to death late Wednesday.  (NYPD) Multiple people have been arrested in connection with the “brutal” murder of a 15-year-old boy in New York City, the New York Police Department said Sunday. While officials did not immediately identify how many arrests were made or who was arrested, the New York Post reported, citing police Read More…

South Carolina lawmaker and Republican U.S. House candidate Katie Arrington underwent two major surgeries Sunday, two days after she was seriously injured in a car accident. Spokesman Michael Mule said the initial surgery was a follow-up to initial surgery on Arrington’s abdomen, while the second was for a spinal fracture and lasted about six hours. Read More…

People of Occupy ICE say they are protesting ICE’s tactics, and say the agency should be done away with entirely. (KPTV) Hundreds of people gathered outside Portland City Hall Sunday afternoon to protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  Sunday’s protest was organized by Occupy ICE. It originally was scheduled to be held outside the Read More…

An English bulldog with an underbite and muscular, rounded front legs won the 30th annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest on Saturday night.  The 9-year-old winner, named Zsa Zsa, was found via a pet-finding site by owner Megan Brainard of Anoka, Minn., according to a biography supplied for the contest. Zsa Zsa, an English Bulldog, won Read More…

Antwon Rose was shot and killed by an East Pittsburgh, Pa., police officer. The family of a 17-year-old Pennsylvania boy who was shot and killed while fleeing a traffic stop will press local, state and federal officials to file criminal charges against the police officer who pulled the trigger, the family’s lawyer said Sunday. As Read More…

Muhammadu Buhari has called for calm after dozens were killed in central Nigeria.  (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) LAGOS, Nigeria –  Nigeria’s presidenct late Sunday announced “deeply unfortunate killings across a number of communities” in central Plateau State as one report cited police as saying 86 people were dead in clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Read More…

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska –  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis laid out plans for a less contentious, more open dialogue with Chinese leaders as he travels to Asia, less than a month after he slammed Beijing at an international conference for its militarization of islands in the South China Sea. Speaking to reporters on his Read More…

Rep. Maxine Waters said that “the people” will “absolutely harass” Trump staffers.  (AP, File) Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters on Saturday encouraged her supporters to fight back against the Trump administration amid backlash over the White House’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy — and said “the people” will “absolutely harass” Trump staffers. Speaking on MSNBC, the California congresswoman said current Read More…

Radamel Falcao celebrates after putting Colombia 2-0 up over Poland in Sunday’s Group H match in Kazan, Russia.  (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) KAZAN, Russia –  Four years after Radamel Falcao was supposed to lead Colombia at the World Cup, he’s doing just that. Falcao missed the tournament in Brazil with a knee injury and had to Read More…

Jimmy Fallon plays with then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s hair on a Sept. 15, 2016 episode of ‘The Tonight Show’  (YouTube) President Trump mocked “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon on Twitter Sunday after the comedian expressed regret over how he handled a guest appearance by then-candidate Trump in September 2016.  The president said that Read More…

Firefighters near Rochester, N.Y., weren’t going to let a pizza customer go unsatisfied after the delivery driver got into a car crash. Engine 642 of the Henrietta Fire District, in West Henrietta, responded to the wreck Saturday afternoon, in which a pizza delivery employee was injured. “Once the patient was cared for and loaded into Read More…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cast his ballot in Istanbul Sunday.  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was returned to office with expanded powers, the country’s electoral board said Sunday, brushing aside opposition claims that the results were incomplete. Sadi Guven, the head of the Supreme Election Council, said that 97.7 percent of Read More…

A dog was “safely returned inside” after it got stuck on the roof of a townhome Thursday morning, police in Minnesota said.  (Ramsey Police Department) A dog that probably scared the daylights out of its owners after getting stuck on the roof of a Minnesota townhome has been “safely returned inside,” police said, allowing the Read More…

Glenn Beck walked out of an interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter Sunday morning after he was questioned about the future of his conservative media company, TheBlaze. Glenn Beck, conservative commentator and CEO of TheBlaze, walked out of a CNN interview Sunday morning after he was questioned about the future of his company. In the interview with Read More…

Britain’s Prince William with Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein at Marka Airport in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday.  (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) Britain’s Prince William on Sunday praised “historic ties and friendship” with Jordan and the kingdom’s commitment to Syrian and Palestinian refugees, as he began a historic five-day tour that also includes Israel and the Palestinian territories. Read More…

Yong Lu, 35, was arrested Saturday in Niagara Falls after allegedly chopping off his pregnant wife’s arm and fingers late last week.  (New York Police Department) A New York City man who allegedly cut off his pregnant wife’s arm and escaped Brooklyn was arrested near Niagara Falls on Saturday — as police said he may Read More…

The Trump administration says that it has accounted for all immigrant children who have been separated from their families after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and is working to reunite them. A fact sheet released late Saturday by agencies involved in the separations reported that 522 children had been reunited with “adults.” Another 16 reunions Read More…

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. –  Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California. The Pawnee Fire that broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an additional 600 as it burned out of control across about 2.5 Read More…