An intensifying storm is expected to bring severe wind gusts and heavy rainfall to the northeastern United States on Sunday night, the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy making landfall in the region. The storm began ramping up Sunday afternoon and will likely bring “damaging winds” to several…

Twitter has suspended the account of Roger Stone ― a notorious Republican political operative and longtime friend and former adviser to Donald Trump ― after Stone went on a vicious, profane tirade against several CNN journalists. Stone exploded shortly after the network was the first to report…

HOUSTON ― Mold had already replaced Hurricane Harvey’s receding floodwaters in the Rockport Apartments when the landlord showed up, residents say. But he wasn’t there to make repairs. He was there to order the tenants to leave ― even though he was still charging them rent. It took an intervention…

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) is accusing Democrats of not doing enough to help investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, which would likely come as news to many of them. The House Oversight Committee chairman on Sunday chided his colleagues on the other side of the aisle for…

The debate over health care in America took an improbable twist in March, when a speech at the Rotary Club in Des Moines, Iowa, became a national news story. Laura Jackson, an executive vice president at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, was speaking about the future of the Affordable Care Act . The…

WASHINGTON ― It’s been one month since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and momentum for a ban on bump stocks, the devices used by the Las Vegas shooter to kill 58 people and injure over 500 others, appears to have stalled. With congressional Republicans focused on tax reform for…

Colton Haynes is officially off the market. The “Teen Wolf” and “Arrow” star, 29, married Four Seasons artistic director Jeff Leatham , 46, in a Friday evening ceremony in Palm Springs, California, People reports . The nuptials took place in front of 120 guests and were officiated by none other than…

Story highlights Dozens of white nationalists held a rally in Shelbyville Hundreds of counterprotesters showed up in Murfreesboro (CNN) White nationalists groups that rallied Saturday in Shelbyville, Tennessee, were met by a large police presence and dozens of shouting counterprotesters. Hours…

More than 900 bodies have been authorized for cremation in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria ravaged the island on Sept. 20, the U.S. territory’s Department of Public Safety confirmed to HuffPost Saturday. Medical examiners overseeing the process do not appear to have conducted physical examinations…

Environmentalists and scientists were rattled this week following a report that President Donald Trump plans to scale back two of southern Utah’s national monuments. Not only would the project endanger sacred Native American sites and breathtaking Western vistas open to the public — but also some of…

This Rust Belt rumble saw a lot of field goals, bad play-calling and a breakout performance. The Pittsburgh Steelers (6-2) bested the Detroit Lions (3-4), 20-15 . Here's what we learned: 1. Detroit lost this game at the goal line, bungling three second-half red-zone opportunities. On two of their…

Kevin Spacey has apologized to Anthony Rapp after Rapp alleged Spacey made an unwanted sexual advance toward the Star Trek: Discovery actor when he was 14 years old. Spacey, at the time, was 26. “I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. I’m beyond horrified to hear his…

Joy Reid just reclaimed her time on national television. The “AM Joy” host refused to allow the Washington Examiner’s Jen Kerns to perpetuate unfounded claims that Hillary Clinton helped to sell uranium to Russia. President Donald Trump pushed the story on Twitter that Clinton helped to seal the…

“The Walking Dead” has us nervous. Yes, Sunday’s episode had a lot of Alexandrians being shot and ended with a long-forgotten character, Morales (Juan Gabriel Pareja), returning from Season 1 to hold Rick (Andrew Lincoln) at gunpoint. But let’s be real. “Walking Dead ” is doing the “All Out War”…

Staff Sgt. Logan Melger was killed June 4 in Bamako, Mali. (Photo released by Army Special Operations Command) The U.S. military has launched a homicide investigation into the death of a Special Forces soldier in Mali and whether members of the Navy SEALs had a role in his killing. Staff Sgt. Logan…

Politics is getting ugly in the Virginia senate race. On Sunday night, Trump-style populist Corey Stewart blasted Democrats, saying every one of them fits into one of four basic categories: “Criminals, communists, crackheads and weirdos.” Stewart then lashed out at Danica Roem, a Democratic…

A "poorly organized" Tropical Storm Philippe moved closer to South Florida on Saturday night, and tropical storm watches remain in effect for part of the state. Tropical Storm Philippe was a lopsided storm on Saturday night. with most of its worst weather to the east of its center. (NWS) The…

Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer handling the response to the Russia investigation, said President Trump has instructed all White House staff members to cooperate with Robert S. Mueller III’s team of investigators. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump is confident…

DETROIT— Hard conversations about race have been at the heart of the Women’s March from the moment it began to take shape last fall, and at the Women’s Convention in Detroit this weekend, they were front and center once again. “Today, we are going to talk about black women,” Symone Sanders, former…

Houston Astros’ first baseman Yuli Gurriel has been banned from five games next season for making a racist gesture in the dugout during Friday night’s Game 3 of the World Series. Gurriel had just hit a home run off of Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitcher Yu Darvish, who is Japanese-Iranian and was born in…

British actor Charlie Heaton was denied entry into the U.S. after “trace amounts of cocaine were found in his luggage” at Los Angeles International Airport a week ago, according to The Associated Press . Law enforcement officials told The Hollywood Reporter that the actor admitted to consuming the…

DETROIT— Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) launched into a lengthy critique of President Donald Trump at the Women’s Convention here on Saturday, at one point leading attendees in chants of “Impeach 45!” that reverberated through the convention hall. The congresswoman was the featured speaker,…

If you’re still scrambling for the perfect costume this Halloween, you can chill. Because you’re not going to top Keki. Photos of the Hungarian puli’s stellar costume started going viral after appearing on various social media sites this week. If you’re not familiar with Hungarian pulis, know that…

Two of South Korea’s 24 nuclear reactors. The country has a huge stockpile of spent fuel from which it can extract plutonium — enough for more than 4,300 bombs, according to a report. Jean Chung/Bloomberg, via Getty Images As North Korea races to build a weapon that for the first time could threaten…

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — White supremacists, neo-Nazis and fascists descended on a Middle Tennessee town Saturday for a “White Lives Matter” rally, striking fear into communities desperate to avoid the kind of violence that visited Charlottesville, Virginia, nearly three months ago. But it was met with…

Shortly before a federal grand jury filed the first charges in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, conservatives were renewing their calls for the attorney to resign. Mueller, who is leading the Justice Department’s investigation as special…

Former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to show up for jury duty next month after being called to serve in Cook County, Illinois. “ He made it crystal clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident of this community,” Tim Evans, chief…

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. ― In post-Charlottesville America, any large gathering of racists and fascists becomes both spectacle and specter. The threat of violence is omnipresent. Locals must “brace” themselves for “ chaos and bloodshed .” Everyone dreads “another Charlottesville.” Dread is what Nazis…

MONEY ISLAND, N.J. ― Meghan Wren remembers the day when a young bald eagle ― fluffy with the mottled-brown plumage of an adolescent ― landed on the dock next door and started pulling apart a fish carcass. They were having a potluck for Memorial Day, and about a dozen neighbors were gathered around,…

It’s 2 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon and Fernando Gomez doesn’t know where he and his 1-year-old daughter will sleep tonight. For the past eight months, the 24-year-old resident of Santa Rosa, California, and his daughter have been sleeping on friends’ couches or in his car. In early October, relief…

There have been so many horrifying stories about male predatory behavior since the Harvey Weinstein story broke earlier this month, but one quote has truly stood out. In a damning memo about her boss, a Weinstein Co. employee named Lauren O’Connor neatly explained how the Hollywood producer could…

“ The Daily Show ” is here with your annual reminder that blackface is a really stupid and racist way to mark Halloween . Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. dressed as a vampire to explain how the concept of white people applying black makeup to mark the spooky occasion (even if they aren’t intending to be…

Actor Woody Harrelson has recalled the “brutal” meal he once had with President Donald Trump . On Friday’s broadcast of “ Real Time with Bill Maher ,” the star of the upcoming Lyndon B. Johnson biopic “ LBJ ” explained how he was invited along to the 2002 dinner with the future president by retired…

Actresses Annabella Sciorra and Daryl Hannah opened up to The New Yorker about their own Harvey Weinstein stories, describing the terror that they say the abuse left them with. Sciorra, known for her role as Gloria Trillo in “The Sopranos,” accused the Hollywood mogul of raping her and then…

Former president Barack Obama speaks at a rally in support of Phil Murphy, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, in Newark, N.J., on Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Since leaving the White House in January, former president Barack Obama has turned heads , slipping…

They’d been waiting 25 years to see the final — and potentially most sensitive — batch of records related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Then came word late Thursday that President Trump had acquiesced to CIA and FBI lobbying to withhold tens of thousands of the files. For historians,…

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., reportedly has approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, CNN said Friday evening. According to the network, the charges are sealed under order from a…

President Donald Trump briefly met with children of the White House press corps on Friday as part of a Halloween celebration, and things got weird pretty quickly. The costumed kids were invited to the Oval Office before trick-or-treating in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Trump, ever eager…

In a shockingly rapid sequence of events, history was made twice over in Spain on Friday. In the space of less than an hour , the Catalan regional Parliament in Barcelona declared its independence from Spain, and then Spain’s Parliament in Madrid voted to take control of Catalonia. The historic turn…

The White House on Friday confirmed its official stance on the women accusing President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct : They are lying. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the position in a press conference on Friday afternoon after CBS News reporter Jacqueline Alemany…