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She allegedly killed her husband, then published a kids book about loss, grief.

At least 83 howler monkeys were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

Top allies of former President Trump traveled to Israel this week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien made the trip alongside two other former Trump administration officials. They stayed in the country for three days, meeting with both Netanyahu and his top political rival, Benny Gantz.

O'Brien was accompanied by John Rakolta, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates under Trump, and Ed McMullen, a former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland.

"My goal on this trip was...

Former President Trump’s legal team was slated to call on a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission to testify in the NY v. Trump case, but the expert’s testimony was not heard after the presiding judge curbed the scope of what he could discuss before the jury.

"Judge Merchan has so restricted my testimony that defense has decided not to call me. Now, it’s elementary that the judge instructs the jury on the law, so I understand his reluctance," former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith posted on X Monday.

"But the Federal Election...

Former President Donald J. Trump dodged a question about whether he backed restrictions on contraception in an interview on Tuesday, but suggested he might support letting states decide the matter for themselves.

When asked if he supported restrictions on “a person’s right to contraception” in an interview on KDKA, a CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh, Mr. Trump gave a vague answer.

“We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly,” he said. “And I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting, and it’s another issue that’s...

When members of the Kennedy family joined President Biden in Philadelphia to endorse his re-election — and denounce the presidential candidacy of the best-known Kennedy of this generation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — one person stepped forward to make the family’s case: his younger sister Kerry.

“Nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden,” Ms. Kennedy said as her siblings, and Mr. Biden, flanked her onstage. “That’s right: The Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”

That was not the first time that Ms. Kennedy...

Vice President Kamala Harris rallied members of one of the nation’s largest labor unions in a key battleground state on Tuesday, redoubling Democrats’ efforts to cast themselves as the true champions of the working class and Republicans as catering to the wealthy.

“November is going to be about two choices, so let’s be clear about that,” Ms. Harris said in Philadelphia, at a convention for the Service Employees International Union. “Whereas the last administration buried our country in debt to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, we are helping dig...

A bipartisan group of four congressional lawmakers have objected to the Biden administration plan to boost access to metals needed for electric vehicle batteries by easing sanctions on an Israeli mining executive accused of corrupt practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The objection came as the Biden administration moves to allow Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, to sell his financial stake in three mines in Congo as part of an effort to remove him from the mining trade there.

Senior Biden officials have argued this will help Congo, the...

The death investigation into "Friends" star Matthew Perry remains ongoing, law enforcement sources said.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is fighting for another term as D.A. as her prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others in the Georgia 2020 election interference case remains tied up in a Georgia appellate court.

"I plan to win and win big," Willis predicted in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Monday night. "I am at a point where I need Fulton County voters to get out and vote."

The 52-year-old prosecutor is running for reelection in the Democratic primary Tuesday against attorney and author Christian Wise Smith. He...

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At least 12 allies of former President Donald Trump were arraigned in Phoenix on charges that include conspiracy, fraud and forgery that are related to an alleged scheme to put forward phony electors in the 2020 election who backed Trump despite President Biden winning the state.

Rudy Giuliani is among the defendants on the docket after being served Friday night while leaving his 80th birthday party, and appeared virtually for the hearing. Other defendants include former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, former White House chief of staff...

At least four anti-Israel agitators were hauled out of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing by Capitol police while Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified about his department's budget on Tuesday.

While Blinken began his opening statement, a man stood up shouting the name of a 6-year-old boy reportedly killed in Gaza.

"Blinken, you will be remembered as the Butcher of Gaza," the man yelled as officers pulled him out of the hearing room. "You will be remembered for murdering innocent Palestinians."

As other protesters started to...

The nation's largest LGBT advocacy organization, GLAAD, has issued a fact check of Harrison Butker's commencement speech at a private Catholic college last week, saying the three-time Super Bowl winner's address was filled with "erroneous and dangerous claims," even suggesting the kicker was out of step with Pope Francis.

"Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s commencement speech was not only a clear miss, it was inaccurate, ill-informed, and woefully out of step with Americans about Pride, LGBTQ people and women," GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis...

The AP decries the seizure of its camera, which Israel says was producing footage used by Al Jazeera.