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A sculpture, titled “Mother of the Martyr,” depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional artistic representation of Egypt, with her arms outstretched with a helmeted soldier standing behind her. (AP) A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers, which used to have a helmeted soldier standing behind the woman. (AP) Previous Next CAIRO – A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country. The concrete sculpture, titled "Mother of the Martyr," depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional ...

AsDonald Trumparrived in Phoenix lateWednesday, fresh from a visit to Mexico City’s presidential palace, he had in his hands a bigimmigration speechthat omitted the usual line that Mexico would have to pay for his proposed wall along the U.S. southe border. Just after landing, though, Mr. Trump discovered that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nietohad tweeted that he had told the Republican presidential nominee during their private meeting earlier that day that his country would refuse to pay for the wall. Mr. Trump was peeved that Mr. Peña Nieto had gone public with the fact that the Mexican president had broken what Mr. Trump considered a deal to keep the question of paying for the w...

President Obama may be struggling to tilt the balance of the Supreme Court – but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t already made his mark on the bench. The president, over the course of his two terms, has appointed hundreds of justices to the lower federal courts, leading to a majority of appeals courts now dominated by Democratic picks. While those nomination battles aren’t nearly as high-profile as they are for the high court, the impact of the appointments is just as pronounced. “It's often overlooked, but nominees to the lower courts ... are often one of the most important legacies a president leaves behind,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center. ...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fighting Tuesday to hold onto her House seat after losing her post atop the Democratic National Committee last month over a leaked email scandal, amid waings from her primary challenger that she’s taken her base “for granted.” First-time candidate Tim Canova, a law professor backed by Beie Sanders, is trying to unseat the incumbent Tuesday, in one of several big end-of-the-season primaries. Canova’s longshot bid to upset Wasserman Schultz got a huge boost this spring when Sanders endorsed him and even hinted at coming to Florida to campaign for him. He benefited again when Wasserman Schultz was caught up in the leak of emails showing top DNC officials crit...

(Charles Sindeldecker) NEW ORLEANS – A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing Saturday moing due to a major problem with one of its two engines. Flight 3472 from New Orleans diverted the airplane to Pensacola, Florida, after the pilot detected something had gone wrong with an engine, according to a Southwest statement. The jet, a Boeing 737-700, landed in Pensacola around 9:40 a.m. CDT with no apparent injuries to the 99 passengers or five crew members on board, according to Southwest. Pictures taken from the plane and posted online made it appear that part of the engine had blown apart, but Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz said there was no explos...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detecitves want to question Rory Murga in the death of 16-year-old Elena Moore. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office via AP) Califoia deputies say a 16-year-old stabbing victim’s chilling last words may have fingered her ex-boyfriend as her killer. Elena (Lily) Moore was yelling and screaming the ex’s name after being stabbed once in the chest in her home in Pico Rivera in the middle of the night Friday. Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies the girl’s screams wakened her mother. She watched her daughter die. “She was yelling and screaming his name. It's horrible,” Lt. Eddie Heandez said of Elena. “Can you imagine waking up to the screams of...

Russia's long jumper Darya Klishina speaks at a track meet in June. (Associated Press) The IAAF said Saturday it has baed the only Russian in Olympic track and field from competition and that she is appealing the ruling. IAAF spokesman Yais Nikolaou told The Associated Press that the goveing body revoked eligibility for long jumper Darya Klishina based on new information it received last week. Nikolaou would not specify what the new information is or who delivered it. Klishina, a former European indoor champion, was previously the only one of 68 Russians allowed to compete in the sport amid a massive doping scandal. The IAAF had accepted her application because she is based in the United...

Hillary Clinton clashed from afar with Donald Trump on the economy Monday, accusing him of peddling “old, tired ideas” that benefit the “really wealthy” – after the Republican nominee hammered the Democrats' “job-killing” agenda in a speech of his own where he unveiled a revised plan to jolt the economy by slashing taxes and regulations. Trump delivered his economic address early Monday afteoon in Detroit, touting a plan he called a "nigh...

Hillary Clinton clashed from afar with Donald Trump on the economy Monday, accusing him of peddling “old, tired ideas” that benefit the “really wealthy” – after the Republican nominee hammered the Democrats' “job-killing” agenda in a speech of his own where he unveiled a revised plan to jolt the economy by slashing taxes and regulations. Trump delivered his economic address early Monday afteoon in Detroit, touting a plan he called a "night-and-day-contrast" with the “job-killing, tax-raising, poverty-inducing Obama-Clinton agenda.” Clinton retued fire hours later during a rally in St. Petersburg, Fla., saying her GOP rival has simply hired advisers trying to “make his old, tired ideas ...

LONDON – Delta Air Lines has grounded flights scheduled to leave Monday after experiencing unspecified issues with its computer systems globally. Confirmation of Monday's troubles came in an official account that responds to customers via Twitter. The airline declined to immediately comment by phone and it was unclear whether all its flights were affected. "Delta has experienced a computer outage that has affected flights scheduled for this moing," the Atlanta-based company tweeted to customers affected by delays. "Flights awaiting departure are currently delayed. Flights enroute are operating normally. We appreciate your patience." The company said its IT systems were down "everywhere...

MOOSE, Wyo. – An Ohio teenager located by searchers two days after she vanished in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park cut and dyed her hair, changed her clothes and fled when authorities initially approached her, officials said Saturday. MISSING PERSON: Fauna Jackson search enters 2nd day. Call 307.739.3517 with info. Summary: https://t.co/tsSEtvrLFZ pic.twitter.com/SDIUkQV5lY — Grand Teton NP (@GrandTetonNPS) August 5, 2016 Fauna Jackson, 16, was uninjured and taken to a hospital to be checked out. The National Park Service said the incident is "under investigation." Jackson, who is from Cinciati, was found near the Snake River Overlook about 4 miles from where she was last seen on Thurs...

MOOSE, Wyo. – An Ohio teenager located by searchers two days after she vanished in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park cut and dyed her hair, changed her clothes and fled when authorities initially approached her, officials said Saturday. MISSING PERSON: Fauna Jackson search enters 2nd day. Call 307.739.3517 with info. Summary: https://t.co/tsSEtvrLFZ pic.twitter.com/SDIUkQV5lY — Grand Teton NP (@GrandTetonNPS) August 5, 2016 Fauna Jackson, 16, was uninjured and taken to a hospital to be checked out. The National Park Service said the incident is "under investigation." Jackson, who is from Cinciati, was found near the Snake River Overlook about 4 miles from where she was last seen on Thurs...

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., took a shot at Republican nominee Donald Trump Thursday, saying the billionaire “had a pretty strange run since the convention” and that he finds it “distressing” that he is not focusing on Hillary Clinton. “He’s had a pretty strange run since the convention,” Ryan saidonWTAQ radioin Green Bay. “You would think that we want to be focusing on Hillary Clinton, on all of her deficiencies. She is such a weak candidate that one would think that we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing thatthat’s not what we’re talking about these days.” Ryan faces businessman Paul Nehlen in next Tuesday's primary election, and his remarks came af...

Sixty-one percent of voters think Hillary Clinton is dishonest, yet she’s opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News Poll. Here’s why: majorities think Clinton is nevertheless qualified to be president, and has the temperament and knowledge to serve effectively. It’s the opposite for Trump: over half feel he is not qualified, and lacks the temperament or knowledge to lead the country. And his 62 percent dishonesty rating tops hers. After the conventions, the Clinton-Kaine ticket leads the Trump-Pence ticket by 10 points (49-39 percent) in the race for the White House. Clinton’s advantage is outside the poll’s margin of error. A month ago, Clinton was up by six points...

Sixty-one percent of voters think Hillary Clinton is dishonest, yet she’s opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News Poll. Here’s why: majorities think Clinton is nevertheless qualified to be president, and has the temperament and knowledge to serve effectively. It’s the opposite for Trump: over half feel he is not qualified, and lacks the temperament or knowledge to lead the country. And his 62 percent dishonesty rating tops hers. After the conventions, the Clinton-Kaine ticket leads the Trump-Pence ticket by 10 points (49-39 percent) in the race for the White House. Clinton’s advantage is outside the poll’s margin of error. A month ago, Clinton was up by six points...

Sixty-one percent of voters think Hillary Clinton is dishonest, yet she’s opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News Poll. Here’s why: majorities think Clinton is nevertheless qualified to be president, and has the temperament and knowledge to serve effectively. It’s the opposite for Trump: over half feel he is not qualified, and lacks the temperament or knowledge to lead the country. And his 62 percent dishonesty rating tops hers. After the conventions, the Clinton-Kaine ticket leads the Trump-Pence ticket by 10 points (49-39 percent) in the race for the White House. Clinton’s advantage is outside the poll’s margin of error. A month ago, Clinton was up by six points...

President Obama on Tuesday denounced Donald Trump in his strongest terms yet, calling him “unfit to serve” and “woefully unprepared to do this job” – while the Republican nominee hammered November rival Hillary Clinton as weak and un-presidential in a string of battleground state stops. The president fielded a question on Trump at the top of a White House press conference with the visiting prime minister of Singapore. Obama diverted from the central topic of that visit – moving along the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, which Trump opposes – to fundamentally question whether the federal govement could even function properly if Trump wins. “I think the Republican nom...

A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught fire and crashed in a field in central Texas Saturday moing, officials said, adding that there were no survivors. Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that 16 people were killed when the balloon crashed in Lockhart, about 30 miles south of Austin. However, federal investigators would not confirm the exact number of deaths. Erik Grosof of the National Transportation Safety Board would only say that there were "a number of fatalities." Caldwell County says there are no survivors in hot air balloon incident in Lockhart. pic.twitter.com/tAmuAIUxy7 — Marcus Officer (@MarcusonFO...

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