Katie Mettler –

From Tiki torches to hockey, Charlottesville compels companies to denounce white supremacist patrons

June 2, 2018 at 11:36 p.m.

Last weekend in Charlottesville, hundreds of people espousing white nationalist, neo-Nazi and Klux Klux Klan ideology marched in the dark through the University of Virginia campus spewing racist taunts while...

A Colorado father is trying to get a law passed that would establish legal limits on smartphones sales to children.

Smartphones made his kids ‘moody’ and ‘withdrawn.’ Now he wants to ban them for preteens.

June 3, 2018 at 2:46 p.m.

Colorado dad and Denver-area anesthesiologist Tim Farnum has always understood the intrigue of modern technology. Smartphones, tablets and unfettered Internet access connect us to faraway corners of the world and...

Texas-based digital marketing firm The Think Tank (T3) has developed an algorithm that short sells stocks of companies negatively affected by President Donald Trump's tweets.

When Trump tweets and stocks fall, puppies win

June 6, 2018 at 3:08 a.m.

Before he even took the oath of office, President Donald Trump and his tweets were making the markets move. Stocks dipped for Boeing when Trump, as president-elect, tweeted about the...

Former President George W. Bush's daughters Jenna and Barbara have their photo taken in the East Room at the White House in Washington prior to the unveiling of President Bush's official portrait on May 31, 2012. The Bush twins penned a letter of advice to President Barack Obama's daughters that was published online by Time on Jan. 12, 2017.

Bush twins write touching letter to Sasha and Malia Obama about life after White House

August 21, 2019 at 9:42 p.m.

In 2009, as their father penned a letter to his successor, the twin daughters of President George W. Bush, Jenna and Barbara, wrote a letter of their own. Their dad's...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Why God is a curvy, black woman in ‘The Shack’ and some Christian critics say it’s ‘heresy’

June 8, 2018 at 1:55 p.m.

In the upcoming film adaptation of "The Shack," a fictional book by William P. Young about a father's path to renewed faith and healing after his young daughter's murder, the...

Beware gift givers: That Yankee Candle poses a possible ‘laceration hazard’

June 8, 2018 at 5:06 p.m.

Yankee Candle is offering a voluntary recall of more than 31,000 of its scented candles after at least 16 people reported that, when heated, the square rippled glass holding the...

Indiana coach Kevin Wilson walks on the sideline in the second half of a game against Maryland in November.

Alleged player mistreatment led to Kevin Wilson’s resignation at Indiana, AD confirms

June 8, 2018 at 8:10 p.m.

Last week, turnaround head coach Kevin Wilson, who led the once struggling Indiana University football program to bowl eligibility the past two seasons, abruptly resigned after six years. Wilson didn't...

Ronald McDonald lying low until clown scare blows over

June 9, 2018 at 11:31 a.m.

For now, McDonald's is benching its mascot. In a statement Tuesday, the fast-food chain announced that Ronald McDonald and his signature red and gold garb won't be seen in public...

Hillary Clinton speaks during a North Carolina Democratic Party Rally at Wake Technical Community College on Sept. 27, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Arizona Republic, in historic first, backs a Democrat for president

August 21, 2019 at 8:18 p.m.

In 1890, when The Arizona Republic first started printing from Phoenix, before it published photographs or crossword puzzles or won a Pulitzer Prize, the newspaper was called The Arizona Republican.It...

This handout image taken from video and received from passenger Lee Bee Yee on June 27, 2016, shows the right wing of a Singapore Airlines plane on fire on the tarmac of Singapore's Changi Airport.

‘I escaped death’: Singapore Airlines plane catches fire after emergency landing

August 21, 2019 at 6:56 p.m.

Lee Bee Yee was sleeping on her flight from Singapore to Milan early Monday morning when the flight crew informed her and the more than 200 people on board that...

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