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Lauren Holiday was diagnosed with a brain tumor and is also pregnant. (AP) Former U.S. soccer star Lauren Holiday has been diagnosed with a brain tumor while pregnant, and her husband, New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, is taking indefinite leave from the NBA club to care for his wife, the Pelicans said Sunday. "We are all praying for a healthy delivery of their first child and a successful surgery for Lauren," Pelicans general manager Dell Demps said in a prepared statement provided Sunday by the club. "Furthermore, we ask everyone to respect the Holiday's privacy at this time." Lauren Holiday, who retired from soccer last year, was among the world's most respected players in the ...

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...

The New York Times is so disgusted with Anthony Weiner that it has deployed the Paper of Record's version of the nuclear option: equating him to Donald Trump. Outside of the fact that both hail from New York, the comparison may seem like a stretch. But following revelations the former Democratic congressman and husband of Hillary Clinton's top aide sexted raunchy selfies as his little boy lay next to him, columnist Frank Bruni sought to smear Trump with sco eaed by Weiner. The food critic-tued-pundit drew the oddball analogy in anAug. 30 column titled, "Donald Trump's Irredeemable Twin." Bruni's colleagues in the Old Gray Lady's opinion section also let slip their election stances w...

Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Tuesday survived a tough primary challenge -- defeating a persistent, first-time challenger and the controversy that ended her leadership of the Democratic National Committee. The Associated Press projected the win for Wasserman Schultz shortly after polls closed. In the state’s closely-watched Senate primaries, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy won their respective Florida Senate primaries -- setting up a high-profile November contest that will help determine whether Democrats can retake control of the Senate. Wasserman Schultz is expected to win a sixth term in November in the state’s Democratic-leanin...

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...

ABC newsman George Stephanopoulos gave Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager a grueling grilling over the scandal-scarred Clinton Foundation’s future on Sunday. But Stephanopoulos, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, must have forgotten to disclose his own five-figure donations to the organization. Clinton has said if she is elected president, the controversial family foundation will cease taking foreign donations, but other media outlets, including the Boston Globe and the liberal Huffington Post, have called for it to be shut down altogether. Speaking to campaign manager Robby Mook, Stephanopoulos wondered if the post-election pledge was not tantamount to admitting Clinton was wr...

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...

U.S. gymnasts, left to right, Simone Biles, Gabrielle Douglas and Madison Kocian wave to the audience at the end of the artistic gymnastics women's team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Just call them the Final Five....

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 ...

Brown University officials say an alumni’s short film on censorship at the Ivy League school deserves a failing grade, but the man behind the camera says students and faculty have told him it is “spot on.” Rob Montz, who graduated in 2005 with a degree in philosophy, retued to the Providence, R.I., school to film and narrate a 13-minute documentary on the state of free speech at his alma mater. His findings, that the vaunted university’s liberal-minded administration stifled conservative voices, struck a chord with students and professors, he said. Related Image Expand / Contract Montz retued to his alma mater and found free speech in short supply. (Courtesy: Rob Montz) “There has...

Brown University officials say an alumni’s short film on censorship at the Ivy League school deserves a failing grade, but the man behind the camera says students and faculty have told him it is “spot on.” Rob Montz, who graduated in 2005 with a degree in philosophy, retued to the Providence, R.I., school to film and narrate a 13-minute documentary on the state of free speech at his alma mater. His findings, that the vaunted university’s liberal-minded administration stifled conservative voices, struck a chord with students and professors, he said. Related Image Expand / Contract Montz retued to his alma mater and found free speech in short supply. (Courtesy: Rob Montz) “There has...

Brown University officials say an alumni’s short film on censorship at the Ivy League school deserves a failing grade, but the man behind the camera says students and faculty have told him it is “spot on.” Rob Montz, who graduated in 2005 with a degree in philosophy, retued to the Providence, R.I., school to film and narrate a 13-minute documentary on the state of free speech at his alma mater. His findings, that the vaunted university’s liberal-minded administration stifled conservative voices, struck a chord with students and professors, he said. Related Image Expand / Contract Montz retued to his alma mater and found free speech in short supply. (Courtesy: Rob Montz) “There has...

Brown University officials say an alumni’s short film on censorship at the Ivy League school deserves a failing grade, but the man behind the camera says students and faculty have told him it is “spot on.” Rob Montz, who graduated in 2005 with a degree in philosophy, retued to the Providence, R.I., school to film and narrate a 13-minute documentary on the state of free speech at his alma mater. His findings, that the vaunted university’s liberal-minded administration stifled conservative voices, struck a chord with students and professors, he said. Related Image Expand / Contract Montz retued to his alma mater and found free speech in short supply. (Courtesy: Rob Montz) “There has...

CLEVELAND – Anti-Trump Republicans launched a last-ditch bid on Monday to deny the New York businessman the party’s nomination by trying to force a state-by-state vote at the Cleveland convention on the rules that bind delegates to back Donald Trump. The effort stands little chance of succeeding, but could pose a major disruption to the proceedings just as party officials were trying to smooth over divisions. The Trump camp is said to be "livid" at the revived push. "This is a big headache," one official told Fox News. The group of Republicans has been working to upend convention proceedings by taking their objection of the presumptive GOP nominee to the convention floor. Trump’s camp ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced a growing and bipartisan backlash Wednesday -- including a call from Donald Trump to resign -- as she doubled down on her criticism of the presumptive GOP nominee, calling him a “faker” who is unqualified to be president. Even political figures and newspaper editorial writers who might agree with the comments swiftly said they were out of line for a high court justice. And Trump himself lashed out on Twitter, saying: Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot - resign! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016 The liberal icon justice had kic...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ripped Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a Twitter message late Tuesday. "Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me," Trump wrote on his Twitter account. “Her mind is shot — resign." Trump has been on the defensive after Ginsburg told the Associated Press last week that she felt he was unqualified for the position. She said in an interview that she didn't want to think about the possibility that Trump would be president and predicted that Democrat Hillary Clinton would win. Ginsburg also joked that she would move to New Zealand if Trump were elected...

A Democratic National Committee staffer was fatally shot early Sunday moing in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood, according to city police officials. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Seth Rich, the DNC’s director of voter expansion. Police said they heard gunshots about 4:20 a.m., then found Rich shot several times but still conscious and breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. “Our hearts are broken,” said DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans -- the right to vote.” The shooting occurred in the 2100 blo...

Seth Rich (Fox 5 DC) A Democratic National Committee staffer was fatally shot early Sunday moing in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood, according to city police officials. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Seth Rich, the DNC’s director of voter expansion. Police said they heard gunshots about 4:20 a.m., then found Rich shot several times but still conscious and breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. “Our hearts are broken,” said DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans -- the right to vote.” The shooting occur...