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Shifts at legacy houses like Balenciaga and Givenchy should tell us something larger is happening in the culture.

Attorneys for the passenger, Anila Daulatzai — a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art — say she was targeted “because she is a woman, a person of color, and a Muslim.”

The Carolina quarterback went all giggly when a female reporter asked him about receiver “routes.” But you know what’s even funnier? Watching a thought try to find a route into Newton’s head.

Elaine Chao has access to a key perk as transportation secretary: A small fleet of government jets.

The comments by Rep. Linda Sanchez (Calif.) are the most explicit to date by a senior congressional Democrat about the House minority leader's political future.

Although it doesn't appear menacing, there is the potential for this system to intensify rapidly as it reaches the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico before making U.S. landfall on Sunday.

The budget sets the stage for an ambitious tax bill that Republicans plan to pass without Democratic help.

A day after the Pennsylvania Republican announced he would not seek another term, Murphy told House leaders he will leave from Congress later this month. The resignation comes after a news report claimed that the married Republican and member of the House Pro-Life Caucus had asked a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair to get an abortion.

Stephen Paddock was a casino regular, known to place large wagers and live for long stretches at Nevada hotels, gambling with tens of thousands of dollars and earning VIP status and the lavish “comps” that casinos shower on their regular high-rollers.

Authorities hoped Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, could provide some answers on his mind-set or what could have motivated him. But Danley said it "never occurred" to her that he was "planning violence against anyone."

National Rifle Association officials said in a statement that the group “believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”

The president will announce his plans in a speech tentatively scheduled for Oct. 12, saying the international agreement is not in the interest of the United States, people briefed on an emerging White House strategy for Iran said. The move would mark the first step in a process that could result in resuming U.S. sanctions against Iran, which would crumble a deal limiting Iran’s nuclear activities that the country reached in 2015 with the United States and five other nations.

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