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Former FBI Director James Comey's lawyers will ask a federal judge to block the Justice Department from pursuing its third criminal case against the outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and frequent target of the Republicans outrage

Lancaster County in Pennsylvania has been the epicenter of the nation's worst measles outbreak in 35 years

The roof of a water tower atop a building in Manhattans Upper West Side that was home to a family of celebrity barn owls has been removed

King Charles III has landed in the South American country of Guyana, a former British colony that was the site of one of the biggest slave revolts in the Caribbean during the colonial era

A former Massachusetts police detective is being tried on charges that he killed a pregnant woman to hide that he had begun sexually abusing her when she was 15

Five Spanish missionaries are being elevated one step away from sainthood nearly 430 years after they were killed in present-day Georgia

Asian trading is mixed as worries about the future of artificial intelligence grow after Alphabets stock drop dragged on U.S. markets

The nations major political parties are at a crossroads

Authorities say two helicopters collided near a small airport southwest of Portland, Oregon

Polymarket temporarily halted trading on its international platform Thursday due to a security incident involving a third-party provider

Relatives whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold bans on certain semiautomatic rifles

A federal judge has ruled that chronically ill people on Medicaid wont be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for medically frail exemptions

A woman has been shot just outside the Republican Party of Virginia's offices in Richmond

Elke Sommer, the German actor known for her roles in 1960s Hollywood comedies and espionage films, has died at 85

After a brief bidding war, the manuscript map that helped divide the United States into North and South, free and slave states, sold for $950,000

A federal judge has set a September 2027 trial date for a man charged with attempting to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Association dinner

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South Korea says North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile off the North's east coast

Bill Raftery is gearing up for his first college basketball broadcast of the season, and its a special one

A village chief in eastern Congo faces a tough battle against Ebola

Donald Trump roared back into office two years ago partly on the power of immigration

The Justice Department has filed notice that President Donald Trumps announcements that there are plans for renovating the East Potomac Golf Course and there are plans to close the park beginning Nov. 15 are accurate

The New Jersey town that helped birth The Addams Family is embracing its ghoulish legacy

Utah is pursuing criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two executives, after a federal judge rejected Kalshis effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its anti-gambling laws against the activity

The Big 12 Conference has fined UCF $100,000 for derogatory chants by football fans aimed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a game against BYU

United Nations human rights experts say Nicaraguas co-presidents have established a dictatorship and there are reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.

Police in South Carolina say they have closed their investigation into the overdose death of actor Hayden Panettiere following a coroners findings that it was accidental

President Donald Trumps Justice Department has been scrambling before the midterm election with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that some critics say reeks of politics

The weekend escape of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted of murdering a co-worker was just the latest black eye for the states troubled prison system, coming only weeks after the failed execution of Christa Pike

The man who was arrested for sending a message that he was gonna hijack a plane told officers that it was banter between co-workers and he had no intention of hijacking the plane

The Trump administration says it's blocking shipments from Chinese biotech company BGI and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor

King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts

Conservative activists James OKeefe and Cam Higby have been charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota after a prosecutor said they gave false names to poll workers during the state's primary election

The Indiana Parole Board is recommending that the death penalty remain in place for a man who killed two children in a house fire

A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota has been sentenced to 30 years in prison

During the peak of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, approximately 7 million residents were exposed to airborne lead concentrations over 24 hours that exceeded 80 times the normal background level, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal ...

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Legal groups have filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration's policy of hiding the locations of detainees with final deportation orders

Food and Drug Administration scientists did not support an effort by President Donald Trump's administration to loosen rules on unproven peptide drugs

La Seydoux plays a mother in crisis in Gentle Monster.

Jason Reynolds, a leading children's author, has written a book for adults

Ken Burns has won a $250,000 prize for his contributions to American history

Cornell University faculty will begin voting Wednesday on a proposed no-confidence resolution in the universitys administration amid frustration over its handling of a womans report that she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024

A federal judge has ruled that Republican Bill Essayli is not legally serving as the top U.S. prosecutor in Los Angeles

A federal judge says he is considering appointing a special master to evaluate claims by the Trump administration that California has some 20,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls

Ted Bundy's violent spree spanned at least four years, leaving over 30 women and girls dead

Police in Georgia said Tuesday that three people, including two juveniles, have been arrested in connection with a plot to carry out a shooting at a high school in metro Atlanta

King Charles III has arrived in the Bahamas as part of a nine-day trip to the Caribbean, where he faces calls for an apology and slavery reparations

Three residents and a nonprofit have sued Vermilion Parish officials over alleged open meetings violations related to a SpaceX deal

A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter has been convicted of receiving weapons training from the militant group