DIVIDED AMERICA: Seeing options shrinking, white men ask why
By MATT SEDENSKY The voices cascade into the studio, denouncing political hypocrisy and media bias and disappearing values. Hillary Clinton is a liar and a crook, they say; Donald Trump…
Seniors
Social Security recipients to get tiny increase in benefits
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older…
Divided America: Diverse millennials are no voting monolith
GILLIAN FLACCUS, TAMARA LUSH and MARTHA IRVINE The oldest millennials — nearing 20 when airplanes slammed into New York City’s Twin Towers — are old enough to remember the relative…
Putin fires chief of staff, sign of fatigue with old guard
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV President Vladimir Putin on Friday abruptly replaced his longtime chief of staff with a low-profile younger aide, the latest in a series of moves by the Russian…
Elite prep school tackles ‘hook-up’ culture amid rape case
By RIK STEVENS A New Hampshire prep school that has educated some of the nation’s elite for more than a century and a half is confronting a campus practice of…
House rule sets up election-year battle over Social Security
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Buried in new rules that will govern the House for the next two years is a provision that could force an explosive battle over Social Security’s finances…
SYRIA BEGINS EVACUATING CIVILIANS TRAPPED IN HOMS
By BASSEM MROUE In this video image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens sit aboard a bus after they evacuated the besieged rebel-held neighborhood of of…
NEGLECTED ELDERLY AUSTRALIAN ENDURES BRUTAL END
By KRISTEN GELINEAU FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, stone steps lead to the front door of the home of Marguerite Thoresen in Brisbane, Australia. Thoresen’s mother,…