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Options could include a payroll tax cut or reversing tariffs.

Chief executives from the Business Roundtable, including the leaders of Apple and JPMorgan Chase, argued that companies must also invest in employees and deliver value to customers.

Their bipartisan effort comes after a smaller group of the state representatives met last month with antitrust officials at the Justice Department.

Five months after its territorial defeat, the Islamic State is conducting guerrilla attacks as defense officials acknowledge that the terrorist group is here to stay.

Mr. Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement.

The social media companies removed accounts and said they were sowing divisive messages about the Hong Kong protests.

For more than two months, antigovernment protests have gripped Hong Kong, with anger rising over China’s growing influence. Here are tactics the Chinese government is using to frame the narrative.

The trade officer’s disappearance raised fears that Chinese authorities might be targeting travelers suspected of supporting the protest movement.

Steve Carell also stars as a disgraced news anchor in Apple's first original scripted series.

The message was tossed off a Russian ship on June 20, 1969.

Syed, who was convicted of murdering his high school ex-girlfriend, was the subject of the hit podcast “Serial.”

About 12,000 people showed up at the Democratic presidential hopeful's town hall at Macalester College in St. Paul.

The estimated costs would wipe out nearly all of the tax breaks from Trump's 2017 tax overhaul.

The president took a swipe at Fox News after a new poll showed him trailing several Democrats.

The plan is the only comprehensive and detailed animal welfare plan released by any of the presidential candidates.

"We're a country that believes in second chances," the Democratic presidential candidate said.

The US military is no longer the primary force in Asia, and missiles from China's rapidly improving military could overwhelm its bases in hours, according to a new report.

Four Russia-based nuclear monitoring stations that monitor radioactive particles in the atmosphere have mysteriously gone quiet after an August 8 explosion at a Russian missile testing facility, an explosion that has sparked confusion and concerns about possible increases in radiation levels, according to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.

Within the Atlantic Ocean is the world's only sea without shores, its borders defined by the currents of the North Atlantic gyre. The Sargasso Sea takes its name from sargassum, a free-floating golden brown seaweed that is a haven for hatchling sea turtles and hundreds of other marine species who use it to feed, grow and hide from predators. But the sargassum is now home to objects wholly unnatural too.

Before he boarded Air Force One to fly back to Washington on Sunday afternoon, President Donald Trump was asked about a recent Fox News poll that showed him in serious trouble vis a vis the 2020 election. Trump, as he is wont to do, went off at length on his once-favorite network.

Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that chances of a trade deal with China would diminish if Hong Kong's laws are violated, also criticizing the country's human rights violations as antithetical to American ideals.

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before his death, according to The New York Post, which obtained the document.

"Conan" host Conan O'Brien is offering his negotiation skills to President Trump after it was reported that he had expressed serious interest in buying Greenland. 

Fox News contributor Jeffrey Lord responded to a leaked transcript from New York Times’ emergency town hall meeting Monday, saying that the newspaper wants to stir the narrative on race in the United States against President Donald Trump and in-favor of pro-Russian views.  

Liberal CNN commentator Angela Rye had a fiery exchange with a Republican strategist during a panel discussion on Monday night, telling him that "white men who think like you" are the "greatest terrorist threat in this country."

Fox News' Laura Ingraham took on members of the Democratic Party for what she said was "rooting against America" and disparaging supporters of President Trump, and said the left is largely "furious" they may lose the 2020 election to the New York Republican.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise asked what it would take for liberals to denounce violence against conservatives after a Democratic state senator from Illinois came under fire last weekend over pictures showing his supporters at a fundraising event taking part in a mock assassination on President Trump.

A New York City condominium owner illegally converted his one-unit apartment into a duplex with 11 cramped sub-units, some of which had ceilings just 4 1/2 feet high, forcing his tenants to crouch or walk on their knees, officials alleged. 

In 2017, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was the first senator to call on then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., to resign following sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.       

A consultant to California State Fullerton was fatally stabbed in a university parking lot Monday, police said, and the suspect is still at-large.       

President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that "we're looking at" purchasing Greenland, but that "it's not No. 1 on the burner." The government of the autonomous Danish territory said Friday that the strategically important island is "not for sale."       

Is Barron Trump going to end up as the tallest Trump? Looks that way, and he's got a hip new haircut.       

The 21-year-old white male from a Dallas-area neighborhood was placed on a suicide watch today under the recommendation of medical staff at the jail.       

"I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations that we’ve had together," Warren said Monday morning.       

The NYPD officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold in the moments before his death on a New York City Street five years ago was fired.       

The Antonio Brown helmet saga continues. The Oakland Raiders WR has filed a new grievance against the NFL, according to reports.       

In a rare interview, Ali Shamkhani — a close adviser to Iran's supreme leader — said signing the 2015 pact was a mistake.

"Your journey becomes someone else's survival guide," Nicole Paultre Bell said

The will details almost $578 million in wealth, to be assigned to an apparently newly created trust, not to his family.

Twitter said it pulled down 936 troll accounts, many of which pushed conspiracy theories about the protest groups, according to examples shared by the company.

“We keep tightening our belts, but we’re running out of holes,” one farmer said.

Their rallying cry is "Free the Nipple," a global motto for females seeking equal treatment.

“This kind of offensive behavior has no place in our schools," an official with the Anti-Defamation League said.

The former employee of Robert De Niro's Canal Productions also transferred millions of company frequent flyer miles to her personal account, the lawsuit claims.

A judge recommended firing NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for being "untruthful" about using a chokehold to try and arrest Eric Garner.

Attorney General Barr has announced the appointment of a new director for the Bureau of Prisons amid the scandal over Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.

The video shows several male students from Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California.

Within hours, two children over 900 miles away from each other died after being left in hot cars.

The Pentagon conducted a test of a land-based cruise missile on Sunday, the first such test since the U.S. pulled out of the INF Treaty.

James Reardon Jr., 20, had his home raided and authorities seized a cache of weapons and ammunition, including dozens of round of ammo and semi-automatic weapons.

A tour bus carrying dozens of Chinese passengers has crashed in Laos, killing at least 13

Pack preyed on cattle in a rural Washington state county bordering Canada.

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ON DECK Blue Jays at Dodgers STARTING PITCHERS TUESDAY, 10:10 p.m. RHP Sean Reid-Foley (2-3, 3.00 ERA) vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw (12-2, 2.63 ERA) In his most recent start (in which he retired the first 14 Marlins he faced), Kershaw tied Sandy Koufax for fifth place in wins by a Dodgers pitcher (165). In July […]

The suspected mob-related shooters that gunned down a Roncesvalles Ave. restaurateur last week didn’t have to use a gun if they wanted to deliver a message, Mayor John Tory insists. “I just think that there are plenty of ways that people can send messages if that’s something that they need to do without using guns […]

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is hoping Canadians will forget about the latest damning Lavscam news, opposition politicians are only getting started in their attempts to hold the PM to account. As the Canadian Press reports: “On Monday, Scheer wrote to the RCMP asking them to read the ethics report and decide whether there were […]

Some people say there is no war on the car, but there is in Toronto and the conflict is boosted regularly by Jennifer Keesmaat. Over the weekend Keesmaat, a former chief city planner and one-time mayoral candidate who apparently still wants to re-engineer this city, tweeted: “Roads are paid for through municipal taxes — not […]

Call in the Mounties, that’s what I’ve been saying since Feb. 10. Now Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is renewing his call for the RCMP to investigate the SNC-Lavalin affair. “I believe I speak for millions of Canadians by requesting that you use all the resources at your disposal to investigate this matter, not only so […]

Jake Muzzin spent much of his first half-season in Toronto playing catch-up. Now, he’s further ahead than many Maple Leafs in re-acclimatizing for what he hopes is a long run for the club through the spring of 2020. The blueliner and his trademark beard were among the first arrivals for informal summer skates this week […]

Toronto FC centre back Chris Mavinga was involved in a serious car accident on Sunday after arriving back in Toronto from Columbus, where the Reds posted a 2-2 draw against the Crew on Saturday night at Mapfre Stadium. The severity of Mavinga’s injury is yet to be confirmed by the club and it’s unknown whether […]

Bridget Thackwray discovered this phenomenon at the Danakil Depression - an eye-popping geological wonder in Ethiopia.

Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat representing New York, threatened cross-party action in Congress to prevent a UK-US trade deal in the event of a hard border in Ireland.

A Reddit user, believed to be from New Zealand, shared a photo of an opaque measuring jug - which would have been unable to fulfil its function, sparking others to post other amusing design fails.

The boy had been staying at a farmhouse in the Tuscan countryside with his parents when he fell through mosquito netting that covered his sister's bedroom window Monday, on to a terrace below.

Katherine Keating, now 37, is believed to be the woman Prince Andrew waved goodbye to when she left dead financier Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan town house in 2010.

The Instagram page Behind the Racquet was set up by Noah Rubin, 23, from New York, who won the Wimbledon boys event at 18. He urges below elite players to open up about their struggles.

Nick Adderley of Northampton Police will arm every one of his frontline officers with a Taser after the death of PC Andrew Harper made clear the 'increasing levels of violence' on UK streets.

A four-year-old Australian girl can now only communicate with her eyes after a rare and debilitating disease took away her ability to speak and move.