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Donald Trump walked a political tightrope Saturday -- promising in heartland Iowa to help farmers across the country by cutting taxes and federal regulations while continuing his stark appeal to potentially disaffected minority voters in U.S. ier cities. “We are going to end this war on the American farmer,” Trump told the crowd at Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Est’s influential “Roast and Ride” rally in Des Moines. In a roughly 45-minute address in which Trump largely stuck to measured and prepared remarks, the Republican presidential nominee also repeatedly tried to distinguish himself from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and appealed to evangelicals and others to assist him in helping minorities an...

U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has admitted he "let my team down" when he falsely claimed that he and three of his USA Swimming teammates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro last week. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that aired Saturday night, Lochte said he was "taking full responsibility for" the furor that overshadowed the final week of the Summer Games. Initially, Lochte claimed that he, Feigen, Jack Conger and Guar Bentz were robbed at gunpoint by theives posing as police officers early Sunday moing. Local authorities claimed that the swimmers had vandalized a gas station bathroom while intoxicated after attending a party with fellow athletes. "I over-exaggerated that stor...

Home of Mark and Megan Short in Sinking Spring, Pesylvania. (Google Street View) Police found a handwritten “murder-suicide” note in a Pesylvania home where a family of five, including a toddler who underwent a heart transplant a week after birth, was found dead of gunshot wounds, prosecutors said Sunday. Police found the bodies of Mark and Megan Short and their three children, as well as a deceased dog Saturday afteoon in the living room area of the family’s home in Sinking Spring, Berks County District Attoey John Adams said. [embedded content] “A handwritten note was discovered in the home which appeared to be a ‘murder-suicide’ note,” he said on Facebook. A handgun was discovered near th...

Home of Mark and Megan Short in Sinking Spring, Pesylvania. (Google Street View) Police found a handwritten “murder-suicide” note in a Pesylvania home where a family of five, including a toddler who underwent a heart transplant a week after birth, was found dead of gunshot wounds, prosecutors said Sunday. Police found the bodies of Mark and Megan Short and their three children, as well as a deceased dog Saturday afteoon in the living room area of the family’s home in Sinking Spring, Berks County District Attoey John Adams said. [embedded content] “A handwritten note was discovered in the home which appeared to be a ‘murder-suicide’ note,” he said on Facebook. A handgun was discovered near th...

Perry Coniglio. (Highlands Police Dept.) HIGHLANDS, N.Y. – A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday. HEARTBREAKING: U.S. veteran held hostage, abused for years at Highland motel, police say: https://t.co/5xSlhBdsgK pic.twitter.com/DuegdMLLQR — Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 20, 2016 Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim's at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City. Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally diminished...

Perry Coniglio. (Highlands Police Dept.) HIGHLANDS, N.Y. – A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday. HEARTBREAKING: U.S. veteran held hostage, abused for years at Highland motel, police say: https://t.co/5xSlhBdsgK pic.twitter.com/DuegdMLLQR — Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 20, 2016 Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim's at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City. Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally diminished...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday moing, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. "I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me," Montrell Jackson wrote. He said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consider him a threat. "I've experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core," the posting read. The message was posted July 8, just three days after a black man was shot and killed by police in Baton Rouge. ...

July 17, 2016: This undated photo provided by Trenisha Jackson shows her husband, Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson, one of the three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers who were killed. (Courtesy of Trenisha Jackson via AP) BATON ROUGE, La. – Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday moing, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. "I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me," Montrell Jackson wrote. He said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consider h...

This undated photo shows 19-year-old Fred Barley, a student at Gordon State College in Baesville, Ga. (Facebook) More than $150,000 dollars have been raised for a Georgia 19-year-old who was found sleeping in a tent outside the gates of his college last weekend. Fred Barley, who is homeless, was discovered by two police officers responding to a trespassing call near a parking lot at Gordon State College in Baesville. He told the officers he had ridden his little brother's bicycle six hours to register for classes for his second semester of college. In addition to the bike, Barley had two duffel bags containing all his wordly possessions and two gallons of water. All he had to eat, according ...

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 block of F...

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 occurred i...

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 occurred i...

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 occurred i...

In this photo taken, Thursday evening, May 26, 2016, Stephen Dwyer, student body president and member of the Class of 2016 of Dobson High School, looks at the graduation program while sitting in the bleachers during the Dobson High School graduation in Mesa, Ariz. (David Wallace/The Arizona Republic via AP) An Arizona high school has come under fire after denying a cancer survivor’s request to sit with his graduation class Thursday after he worked to keep up with classes through treatment. Stephen Dwyer withdrew from school in his junior year to receive a life-saving bone marrow transplant for leukemia. Dwyer, who is student body president, is 2 1/2 credits short of graduating at Dobson High...

Law enforcement can often be seen as a thankless job, but one police officer in Lakewood, Colorado got a heartwarming thank you from a seven-year-old. Continue Reading Below Officer Ryan O’Hayre described what happened when he was approached by seven-year-old Hunter Seffes. “I was standing in line at the Chick-Fil-A, it was kind of a busy Friday night. And Hunter here walked up and handed this note to me. It was folded up so I couldn’t immediately tell exactly what it was but when I opened it up I saw that it was a hand-written note and it also included a gift card in it,” Officer O’Hayre told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo. Officer O’Hayre read the note and said his favorite par...

Law enforcement can often be seen as a thankless job, but one police officer in Lakewood, Colorado got a heartwarming thank you from a seven-year-old. Continue Reading Below Officer Ryan O’Hayre described what happened when he was approached by seven-year-old Hunter Seffes. “I was standing in line at the Chick-Fil-A, it was kind of a busy Friday night. And Hunter here walked up and handed this note to me. It was folded up so I couldn’t immediately tell exactly what it was but when I opened it up I saw that it was a hand-written note and it also included a gift card in it,” Officer O’Hayre told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo. Officer O’Hayre read the note and said his favorite par...

Nancy Reagan, the widow of President Ronald Reagan and passionately devoted keeper of his flame, died Sunday moing of congestive heart failure at 94, according to her spokesperson. Reagan died at her home in Los Angeles. She's set to be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Califoia, next to her husband. Prior to the funeral, there will be an opportunity for members of the public to pay their respects at the Library, the spokesperson said. Details had not yet been aounced Sunday afteoon. Reagan, whose husband died in 2004, had appeared frail after suffering several falls in recent years. In May 2012 it was disclosed she had broken several ribs in a fall at her Los ...

Editor's note: The following column originally appeared in the Boston Herald on February 8. It is reprinted with permission. Rushing home to catch yet another debate the other night, a nagging thought resurfaced, one that has hung heavily in the air since these presidential follies began: When it’s all said and done, our 45th president will emerge from the rubble of these increasingly nasty campaigns. Like it or not, one of these mudslingers is going to report for duty at 1600 Pesylvania Ave., bringing with him or her the same grating characteristics that have tued this 2016 race into a watered-down version of “The Gong Show.” It makes you wonder: Do any of them find the idea of being presid...

Sgt. DeMonte Cheeley is awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded at his recruitment center during a July 16 shooting spree. (US Marines) The Marine who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during last summer’s terror attack on military installments in Teessee -- including his recruitment center -- said he was humbled to be awarded a Purple Heart Tuesday, but deflected questions about the military's policy of recruiters being unarmed at these facilities. “I’ll do whatever my chain of command tells me to do,” Sgt. DeMonte Cheeley told The Marine Corps Times. “If they say, ‘You don’t need to arm yourselves,’ I’ll just act accordingly.” The July 16 shooting rampage raised a national debate on...

Sgt. DeMonte Cheeley is awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded at his recruitment center during a July 16 shooting spree. (US Marines) The Marine who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during last summer’s terror attack on military installments in Teessee -- including his recruitment center -- said he was humbled to be awarded a Purple Heart Tuesday, but deflected questions about the military's policy of recruiters being unarmed at these facilities. “I’ll do whatever my chain of command tells me to do,” Sgt. DeMonte Cheeley told The Marine Corps Times. “If they say, ‘You don’t need to arm yourselves,’ I’ll just act accordingly.” The July 16 shooting rampage raised a national debate on...