Pelosi ignores net worth inquiry after lecturing on ‘inordinate wealth’ House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s net worth was off limits Tuesday during a town hall meeting in which she cited Martin Luther King Jr. to condemn “inordinate wealth.” The California Democrat was in Phoenix as part of a 100-city tour […]
Dems flip Kentucky House seat held by lawmaker who killed himself Democrats gained a seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives Tuesday after a special election following the suicide of a GOP lawmaker who had faced sexual assault allegations. Linda Belcher, a retired teacher and former Democratic state lawmaker, soundly […]
Trump Moves to Regulate ‘Bump Stock’ Devices President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so-called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons […]
Box Office: ‘Black Panther’ Heads to Glory With $235 Million Holiday Weekend Disney-Marvel’s “Black Panther” is heading for a stunning $235 million debut over the four-day President’s Day weekend at 4,020 North American locations, estimates showed Monday. “Black Panther,” starring Chadwick Boseman and directed by Ryan Coogler, has blown away […]
Film at Berlin festival shows 2011 massacre on Norwegian island Director Erik Poppe says his latest film is part of the healing process in the aftermath of one of Norway’s most horrifying events – the massacre of 69 people, many of them teenagers, at a youth camp on the island […]
American Brita Sigourney wins bronze in women’s halfpipe skiing at 2018 Winter Olympics After season-ending injuries the two seasons going into Sochi, freeskier Brita Sigourney was just happy to be there. Her sport made its debut, and the halfpipe skier was glad to get to compete. But Pyeongchang was different. […]
Ex-NHL player Slava Voynov competing for OAR despite domestic abuse issues Slava Voynov’s NHL career effectively concluded after he was arrested and eventually pleaded no contest to abusing his wife in 2014. Voynov, a Los Angeles Kings defenseman at the time, was suspended indefinitely after he choked, hit and pushed […]
French ice dance team rebounds from wardrobe malfunction to earn silver medal There were no tears this time, well, maybe a tiny one creeping into the corner of Gabriella Papadakis’ eye, but oh, what a difference. Less than 24 hours removed from becoming the most discussed figure skater at these […]
Virtue, Moir win second ice dance gold with world record Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir claimed their second Olympic gold medal with a brilliant free dance on Tuesday, edging to the top of the podium by less than a point and breaking the world record into the […]
Siebenhofer fastest, Vonn on pace in downhill training Austrian Ramona Siebenhofer set the pace in the final training run for the women’s downhill on Tuesday and Lindsey Vonn’s bid to reclaim the Olympic gold remained on course as she registered a top-five time for the third day in a row. […]