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Just before walking up to the school bus on that fall day, in the Polish farming community on Long Island, Sandy Blampied kissed her mother goodbye. "See you later, OK?" the 11-year-old said. It was October 1966, and it would be Blampied's last memory of her mother, Louise Pietrewicz....

Over and over and over, first as a candidate and then as president, Donald Trump made a pledge to voters: He would run the White House as like he's run his business. That's a promise that he's kept. At midnight Friday, Jan. 19, the federal government shut down following a week of...

On Dec. 1, as headlines across the country blared with news about Matt Lauer's surprise firing from the "Today" show for sexual misconduct, a woman named Jules Woodson tapped out a short email. It ran only 78 words but was nearly 20 years in the making. "Do you remember?" the subject...