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Hillary Clinton is riding a summer wave in the polls – yet the Democratic nominee has left the campaign trail in recent days to fundraise in America’s wealthiest enclaves, potentially giving rival Donald Trump the opening he needs as he works to regain his political footing. While Trump was balancing his fundraising Tuesday with a public rally and a town hall in Texas, Clinton once again was courting donors. Her fundraiser at the Hollywood Hills home of movie stars Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel follows a weekend fundraising spree in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. In the weeks following last month's Democratic National Convention, Clinton has made only a handful of public campaign stop...

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" and ...

The Frateal Order of Police, the country’s largest group of swo law-enforcement officers, is asking the Justice Department to “immediately” investigate the killing of five Dallas police officers as a hate crime. “The U.S. Department of Justice is always quick to insert itself into local investigations,” group President Chuck Canterbury said Friday. “Today we expect action just as swift. We want a federal investigation into those who were motivated by their hatred of police to commit mass murder in Dallas.” Police say the shooter in Thursday’s attack, Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old black Army veteran, was angry about two recent incidents in which a police officer fatally shot a black male. And ...

A South American airline issued a memo to its employees Monday to be on the lookout for a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was resettled in Uruguay after being freed by the U.S. and has since vanished. Danilo Alves, a spokesman for Colombia-based Avianca Airlines in Sao Paulo, told The Associated Press that the alert was issued inteally to employees, but declined to give any more details. The alert about Syrian native Abu Wa’el Dhiab adds to a growing mystery about his whereabouts. The Uruguayan authorities have insisted for weeks that he’s visiting neighboring Brazil and that as a refugee he is entitled to leave Uruguay. However, Brazilian authorities have said there is no record of Dhiab...

DEVELOPING:Commandos backed by armored vehicles stormed a upscale restaurant in the Bangladesh's capital diplomatic zone early Saturday, hoping to free dozens of hostages held by Islamist militants following an hours-long standoff. Approximately two hours after the operation began, the sound of two big explosions were heard inside the Dhaka restaurant and a police official told the Associated Press that five bodies were seen lying in pools of blood. In Tokyo, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda, citing Bangladeshi police, said 12 people had been rescued, including two foreigners. Local TV stations reported that the operation began at 7:40 a.m. local time (9:40 p.m. ET Frida...

Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett in 2012. (REUTERS/Steve Nesius) The mayor of a central Florida city was carjacked while standing outside his home, according to police who said Sunday they were hunting for a third suspect. The incident unfolded in Sanford. The city made headlines in 2012 after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin at a gated community there. Mayor Jeff Triplett was outside around 2:15 a.m. Saturday when three men approached, pointed a gun at him and stole his car keys, police said. They told reporters the suspects also stole Triplett's wallet before driving off in his Mercedes. Triplett gave a detailed description of the suspects to police and 18-year-old Jermine Jacque...

WASHINGTON – Former Secretary HillaryClintonfailed to tu over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrewemailserver, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-relatedemailsmay have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Theemailwas included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010, betweenClintonand one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin. At the time,emailssent fromClinton'sBlackBerry device and routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her New York home were being blocked by the State Department's spam filter. A suggested remedy was...

WASHINGTON – Former Secretary HillaryClintonfailed to tu over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrewemailserver, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-relatedemailsmay have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Theemailwas included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010, betweenClintonand one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin. At the time,emailssent fromClinton'sBlackBerry device and routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her New York home were being blocked by the State Department's spam filter. A suggested remedy was...

WASHINGTON – Former Secretary HillaryClintonfailed to tu over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrewemailserver, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-relatedemailsmay have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Theemailwas included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010, betweenClintonand one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin. At the time,emailssent fromClinton'sBlackBerry device and routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her New York home were being blocked by the State Department's spam filter. A suggested remedy was...

The Clinton Foundation has accepted millions from Middle Easte and other foreign govements that criminalize homosexuality – but prominent gay rights groups in America have stayed silent on the apparent discoect between Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric and the donations. "Unquestionably, they're not standing up for their principles," said Human Rights Foundation President Thor Halvorssen. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee frequently talks about her support for the LGBT community, while ripping what she describes as discriminatory policies in the U.S. "It's outrageous that, in 2015, you can still be fired for being gay," she told the Human Rights Campaign in an October 2015 speech. "Yo...

Federal investigators continued Wednesday to methodically retrace Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen’s recent activities and contacts, while zeroing in on his wife, who may have known about her husband’s evil plan well before he burst into a gay nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people. Although a spokesperson for the U.S. Attoey for the Middle District of Florida would neither confirm nor deny that a grand jury has already begun investigating the case, an FBI source told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that a panel was already targeting Noor Salman, 30. Veteran federal prosecutors said that would be consistent with expected procedure. Related Image Expand / Contract This undated image shows Omar Mateen,...

Federal investigators continued Wednesday to methodically retrace Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen’s recent activities and contacts, while zeroing in on his wife, who may have known about her husband’s evil plan well before he burst into a gay nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people. Although a spokesperson for the U.S. Attoey for the Middle District of Florida would neither confirm nor deny that a grand jury has already begun investigating the case, an FBI source told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that a panel was already targeting Noor Salman, 30. Veteran federal prosecutors said that would be consistent with expected procedure. Related Image Expand / Contract This undated image shows Omar Mateen,...

Omar Mateen made multiple visits to Orlando's Pulse nightclub in the weeks before he killed 49 people there early Sunday, according to several reports quoting regular patrons. One man also said that he recognized Mateen from an app used to arrange dates and hookups for gay men, adding a new layer of complexity to the investigation of the worst mass shooting in mode American history. The Orlando Sentinelcited four Pulse regulars who said they had seen the 29-year-old Mateen there before. "Sometimes he would go over in the coer and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," said Ty Smith, who claimed to have seen the gunman at Pulse at least a...

A new ad promoting bathroom use for transgender people. (New York City Commission on Human Rights) New York City has spent $265,000 in taxpayer funds to make sure everyone knows they can use the bathroom of their choice, with a massive ad campaign urging residents, commuters and tourists to “Look past pink and blue.” The ads, which urge readers to “Use the restroom consistent with who you are,” feature transgender models and are set to be featured in subway cars, bus shelters, phone booths, local newspapers, digital ads and social media promotions. Most will be printed in either English or Spanish, though some community newspaper ads will be written in Korean, Chinese, Russian and Bengali. R...

The Egyptian military said Friday that it had located wreckage from EgyptAir flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that Egyptian jets and naval vessels participating in the search for the plane found "personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris," 180 miles north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Searchers had been looking at a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete for the Airbus A320, which was nearing the end of its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday when contact was lost. Egyptian aviation officials believed that debris from the plane had b...

The search for missing EgyptAir Flight 804 entered its second day Friday, with crews scouring the Mediterranean Sea for any sign of the plane that disappeared from the radar with 66 passengers and crew on board. Searchers were looking at a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete for the Airbus A320, which was nearing the end of its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday when contact was lost. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos says that the plane swerved wildly before plummeting into the sea. "The plane carried out a 90-degree tu to the left and a 360-degree tu to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet," Kammenos told ...

Sinead O'Coor (Reuters) Police in the Illinois suburb of Wilmette say Sinead O’Coor is safe after they revealed earlier Monday they had been searching for the singer."O'Coor has been located," a statement from law enforcement read. "She is safe and is no longer listed as a missing/ endangered person." O'Coor was reported as missing to police after she went on a bike ride on Sunday moing and had not been seen since. “A caller has expressed conce for her well-being and no other information is available at this time,” a press release from the police department stated earlier Monday. The release was titled “Check for Well-Being.” On Sunday, O’Coor changed the cover photo on her verified Facebook...

The latest issue of the online Al Qaeda magazine calls for targeting American business leaders at their homes. (MEMRI) The latest issue of Al Qaeda’s online magazine Inspire released Saturday calls on would-be jihadis to undermine the American economy by targeting business leaders and entrepreneurs, according to analysts who monitor web chatter from the jihadist organization. The newest edition obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) features a cover with the headline “Professional Assassinations” and the subhead “Home Assassinations,” which the depiction of a hooded killer watching an upscale home from the outside. Additional photos include in the issue include one of M...

Califoia’s public employee unions used their muscle this week to fight back a legislative bid to open their books, killing in committee a bill that would force them to post online how dues are spent -- and a second bill requiring a union vote every two years. "These members want to belong to a union. They want to be represented by a union. They just want to know where their money's at,” said bill sponsor Assemblywoman Shaon Grove, a Republican. The two bills went down Wednesday on a party-line vote, after dozens of union members came out against the legislation. "The whole issue is not so much about these bills, but it's about right-wing billionaires fighting for their interest and fighting ...

When Democrats caucused in Washington state last month, Beie Sanders scored an overwhelming victory – wiing 73 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 27 percent. But that wide margin did nothing to sway the state’s superdelegates, party insiders and officials free to back whomever they choose. Of the 16 up for grabs, all nine who have aounced their support have gone for Clinton. All are elected leaders, including Gov. Jay Inslee. “I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton,” Inslee said. “I’ve worked with her for over 25 years, I know she’s tough, I know she can really be an effective leader.” But the discoect with the voters who put Inslee and other Democrats into office has sparked a backlash. The same tensions ...