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Speaking in the capital, a spokesman for China's Hong Kong affairs office said protesters will be "held accountable" and said that Beijing had "tremendous power" to put down the protests.

The secretary of state denied a report that he considered stepping down, but did not deny that he called the president a "moron" after a hotly political speech before the Boy Scouts over the summer.

A congressman has introduced a one-line bill that would kill the department. Legal scholars call it "symbolic legislation." Meanwhile, the House has voted to curtail some key education regulations.

Grizzly bears in Yellowstone may soon lose protection from the federal government. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed taking the bears off the endangered species list, saying the population has recovered to a self-sustaining number. Opponents dispute that, in part because they say federal biologists aren't sufficiently accounting for climate change threatening their food sources.

Some consumers were charged too much to extend the lock on their mortgage interest rates, and the bank's mandatory insurance program added unneeded costs and fees to borrowers' auto loans.

In response to the three controversial videos, many Chinese are calling for a boycott of the brand — although Chinese ads aren't always respectful of other cultures, either.

The column's publication is "kind of an acknowledgement to ourselves ... that we don't have much hope that we're going to be able to edit this one with him," the Post editorial page editor told NPR.

The New York Times published an account of questions it says the special counsel's office wants to ask the president in a prospective interview.

Rep. Adam Schiff reacts to Hillary Clinton's testimony before a House committee investigating the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012.

The debit cards can't be processed in prisons so inmates can't deposit their payments. The IRS has acknowledged the problem, but hasn't offered an immediate solution.