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Prosecutors allege in court documents filed Wednesday that the 10 children rescued from a Northern California home were punched, kicked, strangled, shot with a BB gun and subjected to waterboarding by their father and their mother did nothing to stop it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

For more than a year, rain poured through a ghastly hole in the Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury’s roof, staining walls and damaging desks on the third floor. It smelled. Mercury employees fled to the lower floors.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Four communities hit hardest by Tuesday’s deadly storms — which meteorologists have determined included four separate tornadoes in Connecticut — may spend three more days in the dark as Eversource works to repair more than 91 miles of power lines, the utility said Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The town won’t be expanding its popular 4th “R” before- and after-school program due to space and staffing restrictions. After exploring “many options,” parks and recreation director Ray Favreau said the program — which started with 100 students a decade ago and has grown to include 350 students...

The Trump administration acted Friday to bar taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, energizing its conservative political base ahead of crucial midterm elections while setting the stage for new legal battles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A fitness buff carrying an American flag and shouting about President Donald Trump stormed the hotel lobby of Trump's Miami-area golf resort early Friday and opened fire at a chandelier.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

House Republican leaders suffered an embarrassing setback Friday when conservatives scuttled an ambitious farm bill, part of a high-stakes power play as they once again exert their oversized sway in the House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

While taking questions at a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation event, Microsoft founder Bill Gates had the crowd in stitches as he talked about President Donald Trump and recounted stories from past meetings the two have had, according to footage aired Thursday by MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes."...

Patients with gunshot wounds filled wards and hallways in Gaza's under-equipped and overwhelmed main hospital Tuesday, with dozens still waiting in line for surgery a day after Israeli soldiers shot and killed 59 Palestinians and wounded hundreds in mass protests on the Gaza border.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," has died.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share