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Loading..   DEC. 30, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Photo .   Tara Lipinski won the 1998 Olympic gold medal; Sarah Hughes won the 2002 gold medal;    Michelle Kwan won the 1998 silver and 2002 bronze medals; and Sasha Cohen won the 2006 silver Can it be close to 20 years since Tara Lipinski, then 15, upset Michelle Kwan at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, to become the youngest Olympic figure skating champion? Sixteen years since Sarah Hughes won gold at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, with Kwan adding bronze? Twelve years since Sasha Cohen took silver in 2006 in Turin, Italy? No American woman since has won an Olympic medal in the singles competition. And only one, Ashley Wagner, has won a medal at the annual world championships, taking silver in 2016. (She got bronze at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in the newly added team event.) That mostly fallow decade has created low expecta...

Loading... Advertisement Child Playing With Stove Caused Bronx Fire That Killed 12 By  world news   DEC. 29, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Firefighters investigated the cause of Thursday night’s deadly fire in The Bronx. Four children were among the 12 dead.   Credit A fire in a Bronx apartment building on Thursday night that killed 12 people, among them four children, was caused by a young child playing with a stove in a first-floor apartment, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday. “It seems like a horrible, tragic accident,” Mr. de Blasio said in an interview on WNYC radio. The fire was the  city’s deadliest blaze in more than a quarter-century . A woman and her two daughters and a niece on the fifth floor were killed when flames from the first floor rushed up the stairwell, filling the passageway with smoke and sending people scurrying down a fire escape. ...

Loading... Excerpts From Trump’s Interview With The Times By  world news   DEC. 29, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo President Trump arriving in Florida last week. President Trump  spoke on Thursday with a reporter from  The New York Times , Michael S. Schmidt. The interview took place in the Grill Room of his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., whose noise made some portions at times hard to hear. The following are excerpts from that conversation, transcribed by The Times. They have been lightly edited for content and clarity, and omit several off-the-record comments and asides. Read more coverage and analysis of the interview » __________ The interview  started with a discussion of  an interview Mr. Schmidt conducted with Mr. Trump in July , when Mr. Trump said he  would not have appointed Jeff Sessions  a s  attorney general  had  he k...