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PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) -- Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank was closed by state regulators Friday night and its assets were given to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., FDIC announced in a news release.

Republic Bank's assets are now being taken over by Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based Fulton Bank effective immediately. Fulton is also assuming all deposits.

Republic First Bank is a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The company did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets and $4 billion in...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again. This time, it's for a new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too.

The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be released book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward." In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting.

She writes, according...

The witness account further undercuts claims by Trump that the highly-classified materials were secured at all times.

The TV personality urges his followers to "please wear sunscreen" after being diagnosed with skin cancer.

John Barnett had been giving a formal legal deposition against the plane manufacturer before his sudden death.

Former Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., announced Friday evening that he had dropped out of the race to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate.

"I got into this race because I believed I had the strongest chance of winning in November to work to right this ship and reverse trendlines that have only gotten worse over these past months," Meijer, whose family founded the Meijer supermarket chain, said in a statement posted on X.

"The hard reality is the fundamentals of the race have changed significantly since we launched this campaign," he continued...

Officials in several countries say spice mixes made by MDH and Everest may contain ethylene oxide.

The first week of the Trump trial revealed more about the DA's case and how Trump will behave during the trial

The White House criticized a Columbia University student's remarks about "murdering Zionists," with the student later being banned from the university campus.

Columbia junior Khymani James expressed "regret" early Friday after a video of him previously suggesting people should be "grateful" he wasn't "murdering Zionists" went viral online.

Without explicitly mentioning what they were, James made the inflammatory comments that were first reported by

Police say five people were shot outside a nightclub in the nation’s capital

Former President Donald Trump is speaking out aggressively against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he claims is a Democratic Party "plant."

Trump made the accusations on Friday night via his proprietary social media platform, Truth Social.

"RFK Jr. is a Democrat "Plant," a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected," Trump wrote.

RFK JR 'DISTURBED' BY 'WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT' AGAINST TRUMP, VOWS TO...

Russia has launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine directed at energy facilities

One mountain climber has died and another has been seriously injured after falling approximately 1,000 feet off of a mountain in Denali National Park in Alaska.

Residents are fed up with visitors dropping rubbish and parking illegally as they seek the perfect photo.

The man went near the animal on an ice floe near the world's northernmost settlement in Svalbard.