Summoned by the sound of screams, a Colorado woman raced to her front yard to find a terrifying sight: A mountain lion was hunched over her 5-year-old son, biting him. The woman charged the animal, yanked away one of its paws and discovered her son’s whole head was in its… Read More
Iraqi forces take back Fallujah
Thousands of civilians are fleeing Fallujah after the city was declared liberated from the Islamic State group, the United Nations said, while an Iraqi commander reported fierce clashes as elite counterterrorism forces pushed to clear out the remaining militants. IS fighters launched missiles, detonated a suicide car bomb and deployed… Read More
Crippling heat wave scorches Southwest
People across the Southwest were preparing Monday for another threat of triple-digit temperatures that left two dead over the weekend. The mercury made a quick ascent Sunday to hit 118, breaking a record of 115 set nearly 50 years ago, according to the National Weather Service. Portions of Arizona and… Read More
The highest-grossing animated debut of all time is now…
The forgetful blue fish of “Finding Dory” is box office gold. The Pixar sequel far surpassed its already ocean-sized expectations to take in $136.2 million in North American theaters, making it the highest-grossing animated debut of all time, not adjusting for inflation, according to comScore estimates Sunday. The 2007 film… Read More
King James! Cavs win it all in historic fashion. Here’s how it happened…
More tears. Only this time, tears of joy. Cleveland’s championship drought, crossing 52 years, generations and noted by a long list of near misses, is over at last. On Father’s Day, LeBron James, the kid from nearby Akron raised by a single mother, brought the title home. As the final… Read More
Chelsea Clinton gives birth to second child
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is a grandmother twice over. Chelsea Clinton announced Saturday that she has given birth to her second child, son Aidan. The 36-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lives in New York. She and her hedge fund manager husband… Read More
Trump to GOP: Stop trying to sabotage me, or else
Donald Trump railed Saturday against efforts by some frustrated Republicans planning a last-ditch effort to try to thwart him from becoming the party’s nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if Republicans don’t rally around him. Speaking at a theater at the Treasure Island hotel on the Las Vegas… Read More
Movie star dies in freak car accident
Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new “Star Trek” films, was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway, police and his publicist said. The car pinned Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home… Read More
Massive Iranian terror plot disrupted
Iranian intelligence officials have broken up one of the “biggest terrorist” plots ever planned to target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, the country’s state media reported on Monday. The reports quote the country’s Intelligence Ministry as saying that it has arrested several suspects in the plot to… Read More
The bathroom debate: Why Trump is right
What a century we live in, where one of the biggest issues facing us is the question on which bathrooms one can use. What is lost in the all-consuming media and political frenzy surrounding the debate is a simple question: How many people are affected by these highly publicized federal… Read More