In Virginia’s contentious gubernatorial race, Democrat Ralph Northam has identified what he sees as a new vulnerability in Republican Ed Gillespie’s political consulting work: His clients included major corporations that laid off Virginia workers. Gillespie or his firms previously advised Bank of…

California Gov. Jerry Brown compared President Donald Trump and his supporters who deny climate change to ancient cave-people. “They’re both kind of very similar,” the 79-year-old Democrat said Monday in New York, according to Politico. “You should check out the derivation of ‘Trump-ite’ and…

A Bangladeshi boy walks toward a parked boat as smoke rises from across the border in Burma, at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. (Dar Yasin/AP) Last week, the United Nations’ top human rights official called Burma’s ongoing military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in that country’s…

Days after President Donald Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “rocket man” and members of his administration made it clear military options against Pyongyang remained on the table, Defense Secretary James Mattis sought to calm growing fears of American intervention on the Korean…

Hurricane Maria , a dangerous Category 5 storm, reached the island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean on Monday night with sustained winds of 160 mph, forecasters said. It was expected to deliver destructive waves, a storm surge of up to 9 feet, flooding and mudslides along a path that the…

President Trump on Monday listens to a question during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Palace Hotel in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP) NEW YORK — President Trump on Tuesday will present a vision of U.S. engagement with the world in a maiden address to the United Nations…

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) speaks to members of the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York last December. King said Monday that a last-ditch attempt to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act could be “devastating” to New York. (Albin Lohr-Jones/Pool via Bloomberg) As Senate Republicans work…

Hopefully, someone learned a lesson. A fifth-grade teacher in Irmo, South Carolina, has been suspended after the instructor asked students to imagine they were members of the Ku Klux Klan. Columbia, South Carolina, station WACH-TV is reporting that the unidentified teacher at Oak Pointe Elementary…

Federal investigators allegedly secretly wiretapped former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort before and after the 2016 election, according to a CNN report Monday. Manafort first came under surveillance after a secret court order authorized it for investigators who were looking into work he…

Elisabeth Moss stepped up her feminism game at the Emmy Awards . The actress, who took home an award on Sunday night for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” had a secret message to the patriarchy hidden in her outfit. Frazer Harrison via Getty Images…

Washington (CNN) US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe. The government…

A campus police officer shot and killed the president of a gay and transgender group outside a Georgia Tech dormitory in Atlanta on Sunday. A cellphone video shared widely online showed the student, who was believed to be holding a knife, yelling “shoot me” at the officers before one opened fire.…

WASHINGTON ― There’s nothing like a deadline to get things moving on Capitol Hill, and with a Sept. 30 expiration date for the bill that Republicans want to use for an Affordable Care Act repeal, Senate Republicans who once seemed resolutely opposed to even the most modest Obamacare repeal suddenly…

Anna Faris absolutely stunned at the Emmy Awards — even estranged husband Chris Pratt thinks so. The “Mom” actress made her first public appearance since announcing their split after eight years of marriage at the ceremony on Sunday night. Faris walked the red carpet in a floor-length fuchsia Marc…

Here we go again. For what feels like the 1,000th time this year, the Republican Senate is looking to ram through a hugely consequential health care bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and “replace” it with ... a lot less. The GOP Congress only has until Sept. 30 to advance health care…

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. EDITION US NOW PLAYING Six DACA recipients have filed a suit against the Department of Justice after President Donald Trump’s decision to end the program. Subscribe to The Morning Email. Wake up to the day's most…

Hillary Clinton opened the door to possibly questioning whether Donald Trump was legitimately elected president, depending on the outcome of investigations into Russia’s role in the 2016 campaign. The former Democratic presidential nominee made her comments in an interview with “Fresh Air” host…

After decades on the political fringe, Germany’s far-right is set to enter parliament and could even be the main opposition party following the country’s election this Sunday. The anti-immigrant, anti-Islam Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, is currently polling at around 11 percent ahead of the…

State laws that require people subject to domestic violence restraining orders to hand over their guns could save lives, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday. Under federal law, individuals who are subject to permanent domestic violence restraining orders are…

Swiss authorities are investigating reports that someone flushed tens of thousands of euros down the toilets of a bank and several restaurants in Geneva, clogging their pipes. Several months ago, toilets near a bank vault in the city were stuffed with 500-euro bills, which had apparently been…

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), an early and loyal supporter of President Donald Trump, likes to make noise about the liberal media’s coverage of climate change, often dismissing it as “ fake news .” In February, however, this vocal denier of near-universally accepted climate science…

Nearly a quarter of Americans ― 22 percent ― either don’t know or don’t believe that U.S. Muslims are granted the same constitutional protections as other citizens. Roughly 20 percent don’t know or don’t think that atheists are protected under the First Amendment. These are among the findings of a…

Some people dream of sitting front row at fashion week . Our new dream, though, is to sit front row at Britney Spears ’ fashion week instead. Spears proved once again that the entire world is her runway by putting on a “fashion show” on what appears to be a balcony in her house. Who says you can’t…

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. EDITION US NOW PLAYING A revealing family video of Chester Bennington just hours before his death by suicide shows that depression doesn’t always look like sadness. Subscribe to The Morning Email. Wake up to the day's…

Alabama Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore appeared to use racially insensitive language to refer to Native Americans and Asian-Americans, according to footage obtained by The Hill newspaper on Monday. The former Alabama Supreme Court justice, who is engaged in a heated primary runoff with Sen. Luther…

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he regrets his first move in his old job working under President Donald Trump . Speaking to The New York Times less than a day after his much-criticized Emmys appearance , Spicer said he regrets that he yelled at reporters about the size of the…

Family members of Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz say they plan to file a civil rights lawsuit after the 21-year-old was fatally shot by campus police on Saturday night. Schultz, whose gender identity was non-binary and who wished to be referred to by the pronoun “they,” was an engineering…

Hurricane Maria charged towards Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as an “extremely dangerous” category 5 storm early Tuesday after slamming into the island of Dominica overnight. The hurricane made landfall on Dominica around 9:15 p.m. local time , with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. The…

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of land revered for natural beauty and historical significance to mining, logging and other development. Zinke’s…

People gather to watch footage of the launch of a Hwasong-12 rocket, beside a billboard advertising North Korea’ s Pyeonghwa Motors, in Pyongyang on Sept. 16. (AFP/Getty Images) TOKYO — In his latest Twitter outburst against North Korea, President Trump said that “long gas lines [are] forming in…

Andy Murray may not have set out to be a spokesperson for women’s equality, but he’s definitely more than happy to take on the role. On Monday, the British tennis star published an essay in BBC Magazine on the importance of gender equality in tennis and in all sports. Murray has been an outspoken…

Welcome to ” The Story We Share,” a series of Q&As that profile two people with similar identities ― but who live in very different places. As part of HuffPost’s Listen To America tour, we’re exploring how people’s lived experiences overlap and diverge depending on their zip codes. What is the…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. ― Darrell Cobbins’ grandfather was a real estate man. Samuel Peace opened Peace Realty in 1959, a company whose legacy includes building Memphis’ first neighborhood for middle-income African-Americans ― the 600-home Lakeview Gardens subdivision. “I grew up seeing him go to work six…

Toys R Us has filed for bankruptcy protection. (Photo: PAUL J. RICHARDS, AFP/Getty Images) Toys R Us, facing imminent deadlines to pay off hundreds of millions in debt, said Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move comes on the cusp of the all-important holiday season,…

Conservative analyst Scottie Nell Hughes is suing Fox News for allegedly retaliating against her after she came forward this past summer with allegations that she’d been raped by network anchor Charles Payne. “My complaint speaks for itself,” Hughes said in a statement sent to HuffPost on Monday.…

Think of it as “gay for pray.” A YouTube comedian who previously wrote a gay-themed erotic novel about Donald Trump , has now turned the Holy Bible into a truly gay piece of literature. Elijah Daniel decided Friday that he was going rewrite the Good Book to make it good and gay. im going to rewrite…

Reverse Mortgages A reverse mortgage can be a challenge to explain or understand, even for people who have plenty of financial experience. What Is a Reverse Mortgage? At its core, the reverse mortgage is a home equity loan that’s designed to help seniors tap into the equity in their homes. In sum,…

Story highlights Islands devastated by Hurricane Irma could be in the path of a new storm US east coast could be affected by Hurricane Jose (CNN) Three storms are spinning in the Atlantic, with one already a hurricane and another one strengthening and forecast to threaten areas battered by Hurricane…