Widespread damage across North Texas Monday morning — especially in and around Dallas — after severe weather moved through the area Sunday evening. A tornado touched down in Dallas, causing major damage to homes, businesses, MORE
By the New York Times Editorial Board: In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, stood to warn her party that its own behavior MORE
By any objective measure, this had seemed like an away banker during what was a fevered buildup. Manchester United, mired in their worst start to a season since 1989-90, were goal-shy; their confidence seemingly in pieces. MORE
In the corrosive and dangerous Trump presidency, the outrages fly so fast and the chaos mounts so thoroughly that it’s easy to pass off the entire unsettling phenomenon as one more made-for-TV-and-Twitter unreality show. New MORE
The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding answers from Boeing after receiving a 2016 electronic message exchange in which a test pilot talks of unknowingly having lied to regulators and discloses “egregious” problems with the flight control system MORE
NASA reached a milestone on Friday morning when two Americans ventured out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller: The astronauts, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, had undertaken the first all-female spacewalk. MORE
Here are just a few of the things that happened within the past couple of days: From “What the Fuck Just Happened Today” and its sister site “Current Status“. Someday we’ll look back on the MORE
Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition MORE
After President Trump gave Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the green light to invade northern Syria last weekend, thusunleashing chaos in the region, Trump wrote him a very strange letter, obtained by Fox Business’s Trish Regan. MORE
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly to condemn President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria. Despite stark divisions over Democrats’ Trump impeachment inquiry, Democrats and Republicans banded together and approved a MORE
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s military operation in Syria could end after Kurdish fighters leave a strip of territory along its border, laying out his key condition for ending an offensive that has drawn MORE
Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned over the weekend that any effort to split with China will result in “bodies smashed and bones ground to powder” amid ongoing unrest in Hong Kong. The Chinese leader made the warning MORE
Protestors in Hong Kong burned LeBron James jerseys just one day after his comments on the NBA’s controversey with China. The Associated Press captured video of protestors taking shots at a photo of James taped above MORE
President Trump isn’t the first American leader to turn his back on foreign friends who were counting on U.S. assistance: President Dwight D. Eisenhower did it in Hungary in 1956; President John F. Kennedy in Cuba in 1961; and President Gerald Ford in South Vietnam in 1975. MORE
The New Orleans Saints got an unexpected backer ahead of their game against the Jaguars on Sunday. Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, inadvertently showed the Saints some love when he tagged the MORE
For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump’s outside legal defense and a symbol of MORE
Kurdish-led forces in north-eastern Syria have struck a deal with Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an effort to repel Turkey’s march into the country—as upwards of 750 Islamic State militants (ISIS) escaped from detention centers MORE
Simone Biles. Coco Gauff. Brigid Kosgei. You’ll want to remember their names. This trio of female athletes just had quite a weekend. One flipped her way to becoming the most decorated gymnast ever. One served her way MORE
Martin Scorsese says he couldn’t get a Hollywood studio to back his three-and-a-half-hour mob movie The Irishman. “Nobody was interested in making a film with me and Bob [Robert De Niro] anymore,” he said. “I MORE
If you’re like many parents, sometime in the last month or so you gave up the better part of a weekday evening to attend back-to-school night. Perhaps you stuffed your body awkwardly into a tiny MORE
Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) – Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying mounting threats of international sanctions, even from Washington. Buoyed by a night of steady advances MORE
“I am the happiest man,” Kipchoge said after the unofficial two-hour marathon, adding that he hopes to have inspired many that “no human is limited.”Kipchoge was on target to break the record during the first half of Vienna’s MORE
The far-right Oath Keepers group are set “do what police will not do” and be out in force for President Donald Trump’s rally in Dallas next week, having made a similar move at the Trump MORE
For weeks, prominent Republican advisers have been privately imploring President Donald Trump to sideline Rudy Giuliani after a barrage of inconsistent, combative and occasionally cringe-inducing media interviews, according to three people familiar with the conversations. MORE
Cracks are starting to emerge in the White House’s overarching strategy not to cooperate with any aspect of House Democrats’ impeachment investigation and other probes. In the course of a few hours Friday, former U.S. MORE