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In the 2016 campaign, there was no one more loyal to Hillary Clinton than her one-time Senate colleague Chuck Schumer. He defended his fellow New Yorker and the race she ran at every turn. Which makes what Schumer said about Clinton over the weekend all the more intriguing. "When you lose...

Multiple wildfires continue to blaze across the Golden State, forcing thousands from their homes and threatening thousands of structures in California, according to local officials. There are no reported casualties at this time. The Wall fire, located about 60 miles north of Sacramento, continues to burn across 5,600 acres and has caused a...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer, characterizing it as standard campaign practice and maintaining that “nothing happened” as a result of the June sit-down. The remarks in Paris, made in a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, came even...

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter received medical attention for dehydration while in Winnipeg on Thursday, where he is helping build a Habitat for Humanity home. The statement from the organization said that Carter was being rehydrated in hospital, and his wife was with him. A Habitat volunteer told Canada's National Broadcasting Corporation...

If you’re the type of person who needs at least one cup of coffee to get out of the house in the morning and a few more to make it through the day, you might think the best thing about java is that it keeps you awake. But new research...

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett visits the BNSF booth before the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Store Capital, a real estate investment trust, said Monday that Berkshire Hathaway invested $377 million in the company. That amounted to 9.8% of outstanding shares purchased at...

Dietary supplements are intended to complement a diet and provide what a person may lack nutritionally based on daily habits, medicines they're taking or other outside factors. "Supplements a multitude of things. Whether we're talking about vitamins, minerals, herbal products, it's anything that we use to add to ......

I haven't been inside a Sears store for more than 10 years, until Thursday, June 22. And, wow, did I learn a lot. Mainly, I came away with a better understanding of why Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) is closing an additional 20 stores on top of the 245 it already planned...

A third day of declines was in store for European stocks Thursday, as the energy sector grappled with the slide in oil prices. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, was down 0.5% at 386.47, led by oil and gas, telecom and financial shares. The health care sector, however, was up and the...

Brisbane man Michael Stoopman is a cancer survivor who believes the benefits of medicinal cannabis go way beyond palliative care. Last year he had a large ulcerating tumour eating into his carotid artery in his neck that threatened his life. Ulcerating tumours rarely heal and doctors told him little could be...