J.K. Rowling’s Twitter feud with Trump supporters is so bad she’s now fighting some of her fans; Former Norwegian Prime Minister detained at Dulles Airport for an hour. He visited Iran in 2014.; Trump to order regulatory rollback Friday for finance industry, Wall Street, top aide says; Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened to defend travel ban; Hostage standoff in Delaware prison ends with one corrections officer dead; In rare display of brutality, chimpanzees beat and cannibalize their former leader; A horribly bullied teen committed suicide. Now his former Dairy Queen boss has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.; Another shot at ‘Dune’: The sci-fi novel Hollywood has yet to tame gets a director; ‘You don’t belong in this country,’ actor Kal Penn was told. Here’s what he did about it.;
 
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Veteran Utah midwife gets jail for botched fatal delivery in 2012. Her lawyer claims ‘witch hunt’
The first twin died. The second was rushed to the emergency room.
J.K. Rowling’s Twitter feud with Trump supporters is so bad she’s now fighting some of her fans
Rowling's brushes with political controversy are nothing new. She's just more open about her views now.
 
Former Norwegian Prime Minister detained at Dulles Airport for an hour. He visited Iran in 2014.
Kjell Magne Bondevik was held because his passport — which clearly stated he is the former prime minister of Norway — indicated he had taken a 2014 trip to Iran. He was headed to the National Prayer Breakfast.
 
Trump to order regulatory rollback Friday for finance industry, Wall Street, top aide says
Gary Cohn, a top economic adviser to the White House, described the deregulation effort set for Friday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
 
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Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened to defend travel ban
She appears to have been confused about arrests of two Iraqi men in Bowling Green, Ky., in 2013 for plotting to ship money and weapons for terrorism in Iraq.
 
Hostage standoff in Delaware prison ends with one corrections officer dead
Authorities offered few answers about what prompted the siege and how it unfolded.
 
In rare display of brutality, chimpanzees beat and cannibalize their former leader
The killing of an alpha male chimpanzee in Senegal by members of his own group appears to be just the ninth recorded killing within a community.
 
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A horribly bullied teen committed suicide. Now his former Dairy Queen boss has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
A co-worker testified that the supervisor constantly ridiculed Kenneth Suttner and made him lie prostrate on his stomach while cleaning the fast-food restaurant's floor by hand. He was bullied at school as well.
 
Another shot at ‘Dune’: The sci-fi novel Hollywood has yet to tame gets a director
Several competent directors have tried — and failed — to translate “Dune” into a competent film.
 
‘You don’t belong in this country,’ actor Kal Penn was told. Here’s what he did about it.
“There is a strange sort of reassurance in who we are and what we won’t tolerate," said the star of Harold and Kumar. "It’s the new normal.”
 
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