1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (798+ words) A key inflation gauge in August came in slightly hotter than expected – sending the odds the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates next week toward near certainty. The core figure in the Consumer Price Index – which excludes volatile food and…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (704+ words) Ben Shelton is going against a whole lot of history in Sunday’s U.S. Open final: a 23-year Grand Slam drought by American men; an even longer 51-year dry spell by black American men; his own winless record against Flushing finals…...

7+ hour, 44+ min ago   (791+ words) As he manned a steaming grill topped with diced carne asada and chicken, Andre Hannie contemplated his return to some of the most hallowed ground in college football. “I’m back home,” Hannie said Saturday afternoon in Lot H of the…...

9+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1482+ words) The cameras cannot see her face yet, but her tiny shoulders, hitching violently upwards, tell the story. Then the audible sobs fill the room. Inside the Knox County Criminal Court that day, on March 30, 1996, 20-year-old Christa Pike is becoming the…...

9+ hour, 15+ min ago   (642+ words) Running time: 146 minutes. Not yet rated. In theaters Oct. 9. Truth be told, I was a little bjored at “Fjord.” Movies about Scandinavia can have that anesthetizing effect, with their monotonous, stone-faced conversations and cultural aversion to openly expressed emotion. Those…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago   (886+ words) Three years to the day before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to kill herself, another nurse slaughtered her own three kids in an eerily similar case in Ireland. Diedre Morley, a 44-year-old pediatric nurse in Dublin, smothered…...

11+ hour, 13+ min ago   (415+ words) Two of boxing’s larger-than-life personalities clash at 147 pounds Saturday, as reigning WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia (25-2, 20 KOs, 1 NC) defends his belt against Conor Benn (25-1, 14 KOs) on a nine-fight card put together by Zuffa Boxing. The main event bout will be…...

12+ hour, 8+ min ago   (745+ words) She was the perfect American neighbor — sweet, hardworking and the ideal homemaker. Everybody liked her. She was also a Nazi. The new movie “The Housewife,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the…...

14+ hour, 47+ min ago   (458+ words) A watchdog group that filed a complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is demanding the House Ethics panel obtain her financial documents rather than sweeping a high-profile inquiry of her under the rug. The 11th hour push comes after a congressional…...

15+ hour, 49+ min ago   (363+ words) President Trump said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has become a “different human being” since marrying Bettina Anderson in May — joking that the 48-year-old political heir has finally “calmed down.” “Don’s here with a whole group — whole group of…...