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Heavyweight Curtis Harper was on his way to a forgettable career in boxing before he decided Friday night to leave a lasting memory. Harper, with FS1 cameras rolling in Minneapolis, touched gloves with scheduled opponent Efe Ajagba, heard the first bell and promptly walked out under the ropes onto the same ramp he had just entered, prompting a stunning disqualification that left Ajagba and everyone watching aghast.

A former U.S. labor secretary who is now a leading economist has called for the annulment of Donald Trump's election victory, calling it 'unconstitutional.' One of the United States’ leading econominsts, who also served in the adinsitrations of three U.S. presidents including a term as Secretary of Labor, called on Saturday for Donald Trump to be removed from office — and for his entire presidency to be declare null and void, as if it never happened. “Impeachment isn’t enough,” wrote Robert Reich, in an article published in Eurasia Review. “It should be annulled.” According to Reich, if Russia investigation Special...

The party of Donald Trump began almost 10 years ago to the day, when John McCain tapped Sarah Palin to join his ticket. “She’s not from these parts and she’s not from Washington, but when you get to know her, you’re going to be as impressed as I am,” McCain said when he announced his decision. “She’s got the grit, integrity, the good sense and fierce devotion to the common good that is exactly what we need in Washington today.” Even though McCain and Palin were bested by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Palin inspired a slew of copycats, unleashing...

US Senator John McCain of Arizona is dead at 81. McCain was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year. He was the son and grandson of US Navy Admirals and.... The public controversy surrounding Senator McCain began... McCain linked to jihadist militants fighting civil wars in Libya and Syria..... Russia is warning of another chemical attack incident in Syria. A spokesman for Russia's Defense Ministry said Saturday that jihadist militants, aided by British intelligence, intend to stage the chemical incident to justify another American, British, French attack on Syrian government facilities...... Italian prosecutors in Sicily are investigating Interior Minister Matteo...

ESPN personality Jemele Hill will reportedly leave the network at the beginning of September, according to noted author and media reporter James Miller. Hill's reported departure is said to be "amicable" and includes a buyout. The move comes after she requested a meeting with ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro, per Miller, the author of Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN.

You can sum up the Greensboro area’s biggest transportation news in several generations with two words: Urban Loop. Set for completion by 2022 — when the last of the Greensboro Urban Loop’s remaining two legs are finished — the project’s potential impact is hard to overstate. It will mark the end for a legacy of planning, debate, study and construction that harkens back to the late 1940s. “The Urban Loop is probably a once-in-a-lifetime project,” says Adam Fischer, director of the Greensboro Department of Transportation. “I don’t see any project ahead that’s quite on that scale.” Spanning 44 miles when...

Donald Trump has occupied the White House for a grand total of 580 days. Apparently the president hasn’t discovered all the features and perks that come with the Oval Office. Take his tweets. Early Friday morning the leader of the free world publicly shamed Jeff Sessions, asking his attorney general to open up the files of the Department of Justice so the public could peek at documents concerning everything from the Russia dossier to FISA applications. It would be quite the haul. It would dominate news cycles for months to come. It could happen tomorrow. Trump has the power. As...

Does every runner fantasize about using their endurance and speed to chase after bad guys and save the day? We’re not sure, but 36-year-old marathoner Morgan Scoville put that skill to good use on Wednesday when he witnessed two men run a couple off the road with their stolen vehicle and then try to run away. Scoville is the interim head of school for The Fay School in Houston, Texas, and the school took the day off for a day of observance in respect for the Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha, which fell on the calendar earlier in the week. With...

A 13-year-old Huntsville girl was beheaded after she witnessed her grandmother assaulted with a knife and left to die on the ground in a cemetery, court testimony revealed. The grandmother was associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug-trafficking organization, a Madison County sheriff's investigator testified today. Just days before Oralia Mendoza and her granddaughter, Mariah Lopez, were killed, Mendoza and three others went to pick up a batch of methamphetamine, Investigator Stacy Rutherford told a judge. After one of her drug cohorts became suspicious, the situation turned deadly.

Donald Trump has occupied the White House for a grand total of 580 days. Apparently the president hasn’t discovered all the features and perks that come with the Oval Office. Take his tweets. Early Friday morning the leader of the free world publicly shamed Jeff Sessions, asking his attorney general to open up the files of the Department of Justice so the public could peek at documents concerning everything from the Russia dossier to FISA applications. It would be quite the haul. It would dominate news cycles for months to come. It could happen tomorrow. Trump has the power. As...

In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused several senior prelates of complicity in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s allegations of sexual abuse, and has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on then-Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011 to 2016, said that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis” and that Viganò personally told Pope Francis...

Sessions also borrowed a line so often articulated by his Deputy Attorney General, that he is proud of his DOJ for “advancing the rule of law,” which has become code for “resisting the president’s directions.”

I'm very happy, very happy today to spend my birthday with you and to make an historic announcement in Dayton, a city built on hard, honest work of good people. Like the entire industrial Midwest, Dayton has contributed much to the prosperity and progress of America. And now in these tough, changing times, after all you've done for our country, you want your government to understand what you're going through, to stand on your side and fight for you. And that's what I intend to do. That's why I'm running for president, to fight for you, to make government stand...

A white sex offender arrested for allegedly urinating on a 5-year-old black girl and calling her a racial slur has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the case as prosecutors and police determined the story was fabricated.

• The Ultimate Family Suite is Royal Caribbean's take on a penthouse, spanning 1,346 square feet on two levels • It has amenities for all ages including a balcony jacuzzi, 100-foot Lego wall, slide and a ping pong table • The suite is decorated with bright, energetic hues and whimsical furnishings that provide plenty of seating • It's located on the world's largest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas and mainly travels within the Caribbean....

You’d think she had a Siberian tiger on a leash while traipsing through a cannibal-infested jungle. Instead, the eight-year-old girl was just walking her family’s Maltese puppy around the block. Yet it was enough to trigger a visit from the police and a children’s services investigation into her mother for child neglect.Welcome to third-millennium America, where kids have the autonomy to choose their “gender” or have an abortion but must be ensconced in bubble wrap all other times.People reports on the story:Earlier this month, 8-year-old Dorothy Widen took her family dog Marshmallow for a walk around the block near...

One of the greatest blue-eyed soul artists of all time. Enjoy.

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This is funny. I would not have expected Mr. McCain to have comedic talent, but he did. RIP.

When John McCain, the longtime United States senator from Arizona died Saturday, lawmakers from Texas were quick to praise him for his years of service to the country, both in the military and in the Senate. Former President George W. Bush said in a statement, "John McCain was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order."