Today's Top Political News Compilation - Thursday, August 10, 2023 (1 Viewer)

Donald Trump’s body-man Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty to new criminal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, while the arraignment for his co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira has been postponed because he still doesn’t have a Florida lawyer.

The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election.

Republicans blasted President Biden's $6 billion negotiations to free American hostages from the Iranian regime, calling it "a terrible deal."

The Biden administration is asking Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support through the end of the year.

Boris Epshteyn pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the incident at an Arizona bar. Sexual misconduct charges were dropped.

Former President Donald Trump is waiting to see if he will be facing charges in Georgia's 2020 election interference investigation, and CNN reported the district attorney is seeking more than a dozen indictments. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has hinted that charges related to the...

Target and Nordstrom, among other employers, now face lawsuits aimed at their diversity, equity and inclusion plans.

What happened in the 76th week of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s team have asked a judge to set a Jan. 2 trial date for ex-President Donald Trump in the Washington case charging him with plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss.

The death toll has risen to 67, the county said, as residents are permitted to return.

Six Colombian nationals were arrested as suspects in the assassination of anti-corruption Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

It’s hard not to view these two data points as symptoms of a democracy that is sick and in need of immediate attention:

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., revealed in a new interview he has “absolutely” thought about leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent.

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

Prosecutors say millions of federal welfare dollars for low-income Mississippi residents were squandered on projects supported by wealthy people.

Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.

Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley and Doug Burgum have signed the RNC's loyalty pledge, while Donald Trump has said he won't.

A leading attorney in Missouri v. Biden, the closely watched case about censorship practices, charged on Thursday during oral arguments that the FBI "engaged in deception" while working with social media companies in the lead-up to the 2020 election. John Sauer, special attorney general for the...

Four Americans held in a notorious prison in Iran have been freed and placed on house arrest, an attorney for one of the prisoners said Thursday.

Ukrainian authorities have ordered a mandatory evacuation of nearly 12,000 civilians from 37 towns and villages in the Kupiansk district of Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region.

After weeks of playing coy, Trump said he would not sign a pledge requiring him to support the GOP nominee.

The GOP presidential candidate has also endorsed using "deadly force" on migrants smuggling drugs into the U.S.

DeSantis' top education official agreed to attend a town hall but ended up avoiding it.

Ukrainian authorities order evacuation of nearly 12,000 civilians in the Kharkiv region, northeast Ukraine.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s campaign is once again demanding Secret Service protection for the Democratic presidential candidate following the FBI killing of a man that allegedly threatened President Biden.

Several civil and voting rights groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Republican Gov. Bill Lee and other state officials over Tennessee’s congressional and state Senate maps, which they allege are discriminatory and violate the constitutional rights of voters of color.

Former President Donald Trump denounced a proposal from U.S. prosecutors to start the trial in less than five months on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to begin Trump’s trial on Jan. 2, 2024, two weeks from when voters...

The deal, the latest prisoner swap orchestrated by Biden administration, could be part of a broader negotiation to restore the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal

The Biden administration is asking Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine.

Arkady Volozh said he was “categorically against” the war.

A federal judge will set the schedule for the trial, which Smith would like to open less than two weeks before the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses.

From New York to Los Angeles, Black mayors are getting the chance to prove that they can lead American cities through crises.

Record-high ocean temperatures are setting the stage for an active Atlantic hurricane season with explosive tropical development, but just one thing is missing: storms. There have been no tropical storms in the Atlantic basin in nearly a month, and none so far this year have come close to the...

NOAA’s initial forecast, released in May, predicted a 40% chance of a “near-normal” hurricane season.

Lawmakers, teachers, school board members and parents crowded into a South Florida church for a forum on the state's new standards for teaching Black history.

"I’ve been thinking seriously about that for quite some time," the West Virginia Democrat said on Hoppy Kercheval's radio show Thursday morning.

Large parts of Lahania, the former capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, have been left in ashes as the Maui fires burn.

Former President Trump and aide Walt Nauta both pleaded not guilty to new charges in the classified documents probe, but staffer Carlos De Oliveira was not arraigned.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced the suspension of the Orlando-area state attorney, the second time he has removed a democratically elected prosecutor whose politics did not align with his conservative views.

The parents object to a book titled "Pride Puppy," for instance, that tells the story of children who chase their dog through a pride parade.

A day after a powerful tropical storm flooded dozens of homes and turned streets into muddy rivers, South Korea is throwing a huge K-Pop concert in Seoul for 40,000 Scouts whose global Jamboree was disrupted by the weather.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams's strategy for managing the thousands of immigrants who have descended on Manhattan has been a disaster, according to a contractor on the project. Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former federal immigration official who joined the Biden-Harris transition team and later...

The new proposal comes as workers in LA and elsewhere walk out of work.

Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington, advocating for equality for all Americans, a new Pew Research survey found that more than one in three Republicans say these efforts have gone “too far.”

Comer's promise follows a Republican-led investigation that has largely focused on Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings but shown no direct links to the president.

Eight Republicans have qualified for the party’s first 2024 presidential primary debate Wednesday night, the Republican National Committee announced Monday evening.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green called Maui's wildfires "likely the largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history," and loss has hit home in an unimaginably painful way.

Following closing arguments in the first of multiple legal challenges to local election results in Harris County, Texas, a visiting judge said the decision on whether to overturn the outcome based on alleged irregularities is weeks away.

For the Biden administration, a question hangs over the biggest tech development in years: How big a security threat is it?

The day after former President Donald Trump was indicted over his efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, Trump repeated a lie that the indictment depicts as central to his attempt to obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory.

Authorities say a standoff between law enforcement and a suspect in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ended with the suspect dead and a deputy U.S. marshal injured. The U.S.

Wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have killed at least 36 people, displaced thousands of residents and destroyed hundreds of structures, including homes, businesses and a school, prompting President Biden to declare a "major disaster."

President Biden on Thursday said all his grandchildren enjoy Secret Service protection amid questions about granddaughter Navy Joan Roberts.

The "Beat Biden Pledge" is a requirement for Republican participants in an Aug. 23 debate, although Trump has yet to commit to that event.

Porcha Woodruff’s lawsuit says facial recognition identified her, although the victim had never described the carjacker as visibly pregnant.

China has accused Washington of trying to block its development after President Joe Biden stepped up a feud over technology and security by tightening controls on U.S. investments that might help Beijing develop its military.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who’s been investigating President Joe Biden's family's business dealings, said Republicans plan to eventually subpoena members of the Biden family. “This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going...

Survivors describe narrow escapes from fast-moving flames - and what they had to leave behind.

Police records show that a longtime aide to former President Donald Trump was arrested in 2021 after he was accused of repeatedly groping two women in a nightclub in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Some prominent conservatives linked the pact to unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election.

Updates on the deadly wildfires on Maui.

Local law enforcement is getting cash from the feds to purchase high-tech tools that raise new questions about civil liberties.

All 16 Michigan Republicans accused in a fake elector scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in power are now challenging the charges in state court.

The plan, now unfolding, involves a prisoner exchange and giving Tehran regulated access to billions of dollars.

New merger guidelines proposed by the FTC and the Justice Department have attracted pushback from the business community.

Texas Republicans are urging their colleagues to cut off funding for the Department of Homeland Security if President Biden refuses to sign border security legislation.

The percentage of US adults reporting long Covid symptoms has fallen since the summer of 2022, but some people say they are still coping with changes to daily life brought on by the condition, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

THE GOP PLEDGE TRAP. The Republican National Committee wanted to enforce unity among GOP presidential candidates by requiring them to sign a pledge to support whoever becomes the Republican presidential nominee. But in doing so, the RNC set a trap for itself and might soon suffer the...

U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks said after a seven-hour hearing he was denying a after a seven-hour hearing bid for an emergency order to halt the roundup that a nonprofit advocacy group argues is inhumane and illegal.

With the first GOP presidential primary debate just 13 days away, Republican candidates are racing to nab a spot on stage -- including a vow to back the ultimate nominee.

The FBI shot and killed a Utah man accused of making violent threats targeted towards President Biden and New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Six Western nations marked the 15th anniversary of Russia’s takeover of 20% of Georgia’s territory by demanding that Moscow return the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions.

We’ve seen the power of populism before.

Unorthodox, brash, and sometimes controversial, Flagship Pioneering is looking for its next blockbuster.

Virgin's Galactic 02 mission is the company's first flight taking paying customers to space.

Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager at former President Donald Trump's South Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago, had his arraignment delayed again to Aug. 15.

A federal appeals court appeared hesitant to lift a lower court ruling on Thursday limiting the Biden administration's ability to work with social media companies on content moderation, prompting one judge to make a "mob" analogy.A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th...

Never Back Down has launched two ads highlighting Trump's criticisms of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.

Family members of an armed Utah man who was killed by FBI agents after making threats against President Joe Biden are describing him as a gun enthusiast who was worried about “a corrupt and overreaching government.”

Six people have been arrested over the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

People in Norway are preparing for more flooding and destruction in the mountainous southeast as swollen rivers carry large amounts of water southward following days of heavy rain, with vast areas either inundated or hit by landslides.

Chief Justice John Roberts performed well in a Gallup poll in part because many Americans – nearly a third – had no opinion of him at all.

That total includes $13 billion in military aid to Ukraine, as well as billions of dollars more in funding to replenish a dwindling pot of federal disaster relief, according to two people with direct knowledge of the request.

The former president has been indicted three times this year, and he faces the prospect of a fourth indictment.

Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the Des Moines Register political soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday as his former boss and 2024 rival, ex-President Donald Trump, fumed on social media over their 2020 election disagreement. The two men have long disagreed over what role the...

The government reported Thursday that annual inflation climbed 3.2 percent in July.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Thursday he was "seriously" considering becoming an independent and said Washington Democrats have a "bad" brand.

Biden, speaking on the Maui fires, said residents have "seen their homes or businesses destroyed, and some have lost loved ones, and it's not over yet."

Republican Sen. Tim Scott's campaign got a boost at a ritzy Hamptons fundraiser.

A federal judge has agreed to begin a process that could wrest control of New York City’s troubled jail system away from Mayor Eric Adams.

Authorities have "reason to believe" there may be more evidence on the river, according to a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Clay County, Missouri.

A week after announcing their split, Canada’s prime minister and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are heading west for some family time.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis sent a memo to her staff ahead of an expected barrage of advertisements by former President Donald Trump's campaign attacking Willis.Willis, in an email to staff obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, claims that the Trump campaign...

At least 55 people have lost their lives and the toll is expected to climb. The historic town of Lahaina has been devastated.

The request is part of a larger funding appeal from the Office of Management and Budget.

In a lawsuit, parents say a major U.S. school district is infringing on their religious beliefs by discussing LGBTQ+ books in elementary school.

Kai Cenat said in his first public comments that he is "beyond disappointed" with the large group that flooded Union Square park Friday afternoon.

Dr. Howard Tucker has been practicing medicine and neurology for over 75 years. The 101-year-old doctor shares his No. 1 secret for keeping your brain sharp.

A senior U.N. official says days of fighting in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon displaced several hundred families, destroyed up to 400 houses and left half the camp still off-limits and considered “a hot area.”

Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the “Biden of Brooklyn.”

Sen. Joe Manchin, the moderate West Virginia Democrat who has yet to decide whether to run for reelection next year or mount a long-shot third party bid for the White House, said Thursday that he’s “thinking seriously” about becoming an independent.

President Biden's administration reportedly will request $13 billion in additional funding for Ukraine on Thursday, and $12 billion for disaster funds.

THE FACTS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week recommended babies receive a new shot to help protect them from RSV, a virus that is a cold-like nuisance for most healthy people but that can be dangerous for the very young and elderly.

Special counsel Jack Smith said Tuesday that the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol was “fueled by lies” told by former President Donald Trump. The indictment of Trump on four new federal criminal charges, all related to the former president’s effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020...

A CDC report published Thursday found the percentage of adults reporting current long COVID fell from 7.5% in June 2022 to 6% in June 2023.

Mexico has announced its army-run airline will start up in September, but flight attendants won’t be soldiers.

CPI rose 3.2% from a year ago in July. The report also marks the first month to-month increase in more than a year.

The Biden administration urged the court to block a deal that lets the Sackler family avoid future lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are staying silent in the wake of a report alleging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted more luxury vacations and other lavish gifts than had been previously known. Democrats on the committee, meanwhile, are reiterating their calls for the...

House Republicans are nearing an uncomfortable realization: They may have to rely on their opponents to help avoid a government shutdown.

Former President Donald Trump has been criticizing U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on social media.

Legal experts warn the argument Trump is protected by the First Amendment in the 2020 election case might not hold much water in court.

THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a video of young people partying by a pool in Kyiv to downplay the impact of Russia’s invasion, going so far in some posts to suggest the war isn’t real.

An appointee by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to an oversight board of Disney’s special tax district taught a seminar in 2021 falsely claiming “Whites were also slaves in America,” using discredited research to say there was an “Irish slave trade.”

Two dozen Las Vegas police body camera videos show the moment a couple exited a home raided in July in connection with the cold case killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, while Arizona secretary of state, requested the social media website formerly known as Twitter to take down tweets criticizing her own post calling Trump supporters neo-Nazis.

Five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran are now under house arrest – the first step in a deal between the United States and Iran that would include making $6 billion in Iranian funds more accessible to Tehran in exchange for their return to the US.

Secretary Pete Buttigieg's Department of Transportation racial equity initiatives are not moving as quickly or expansively as many activist supporters had hoped as the administration rolls out infrastructure projects. Many of Buttigieg's equity initiatives are aimed at environmental justice and...

Russia downed two drones heading toward Moscow for a second consecutive night, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

Biden also requested funding for border security and disaster relief, as extreme weather continues to ravage US.

Public campaign finance disclosures from Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign reveal numerous payments to individuals and groups whose ideologies differ significantly from traditional Democratic Party politics, a review by CNN’s KFile finds.

An official said the executive order is carefully focused so as not to stifle business between the world's two largest economies.

South Carolina is cementing a public-private partnership that has been expanding preschool services statewide over the past quarter century.

In 2022, reported consumer losses to fraud totaled $8.8 billion. Younger adults ages 20-29 reported losing money more often than older adults ages 70-79.

The inflation figure the government reported Thursday showed that consumer prices increased 3.2% from a year earlier.

President Biden made a major admission about the Inflation Reduction Act, saying that he wished he "hadn't called it that," and it had "less to do with inflation" than other things.

Iran will not receive any sanctions relief as part of a deal to secure the release of five American hostages, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, despite Tehran’s impending recovery of $6 billion.“In any instance where we would engage in such efforts to bring Americans home from...

Scientists identified a new species of whale from 41 million years ago. It's estimated to have been around 8 feet long and weighed about 412 pounds.

THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing Rodriguez’s mug shot on community Facebook pages, along with a warning claiming that a killer is on the loose in their area.

America First Legal has asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate the company's gender parity and diversity programs.

A civil suit can continue against a former Mississippi deputy who pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to torturing and shooting a Black man in the mouth.

The catastrophic wildfires that have been scorching Maui for three days have killed at least 53 people, officials said Thursday – a number they expect will keep rising as search teams begin venturing into neighborhoods and homes that were reduced to ashes.

The announcement is the latest indicator of major issues faced by the world's second largest economy.

Upcoming charges in the Georgia Jan. 6 probe pose more complex and potentially dangerous security concerns than Trump's three others, officials say

A northeast Arkansas man was fatally shot by police who say he pointed a gun at them. But his family members say the shooting happened as he was running away from officers.

West African bloc activates standby force for possible intervention, says it wants a peaceful restoration of democracy.

And major gun safety groups have come together to endorse Joe Biden for president in 2024.

The parents' attorneys also accused the hospital in Riverdale of of trying to cover up the decapitation by discouraging the couple from getting an autopsy.

The IRS lost millions of sensitive taxpayer records at two different agency facilities, according to a federal watchdog. In its Tuesday report, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration documented that millions of business and individual tax records, which should have been...

John Kirby said the transfer of the five detained Americans in Iran to house arrest marks the first step in a lengthy set of negotiations between Washington and Tehran to bring them home.

Niger’s junta told a top U.S. diplomat that they would kill deposed President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring countries attempted any military intervention to restore his rule, two Western officials told The Associated Press.

The US intelligence community is ramping up its focus on the dizzying and complex array of amorphous challenges that respect no global borders: Supply chain disruptions, pandemics, extreme weather events fueled by climate change and narcotics trafficking, among others.

Tunisia and Libya have taken back 276 sub-Saharan migrants stranded in a desert region along the border between the two countries and brought them to shelters.

Lost to the flames in Lahaina were a 200-year-old church and a Hawaiian language school, both community mainstays for Native Hawaiians.

Officials in Argentina's capital say a left-wing political activist who was taking part in a protest days before national primary elections has died of a heart attack suffered while being detained by police.

The world’s largest cruise ship hasn’t welcomed a single passenger aboard yet, but it’s already set the internet on fire with an image of what it’ll look like provoking both horror and excitement.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has called on chatbot developers such as OpenAI and Google to stop their software from giving answers encouraging eating disorders. Warner sent letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, and Snap on Thursday, asking them to stop their bots from providing answers such as how...

Iran has transferred five Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest, part of a possible deal over billions of dollars of Iranian assets frozen in South Korea.

Witnesses say they’re getting frustrated and feel forced to turn to Capitol Hill or outside groups to tell their stories

President Joe Biden will lean into protecting abortion rights on the 2024 campaign trail, his campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, told CNN Thursday in her first live television interview.

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft.

The slaying of anti-corruption advocate Fernando Villavicencio has underscored the threat of rising crime in Ecuador.

Republicans suffered their latest electoral setback on a vote related to abortion, this time over a referendum in Ohio on Tuesday

Yaccarino is the first CEO of the social media platform under Musk, who bought the company formerly known as Twitter last fall.

The failure of Virginia General Assembly leaders to provide direction on an insurance program that has helped reduce premiums for certain health insurance plans could drive big rate hikes next year.

Vice President Harris said inflation fell for 12 consecutive months, but she was corrected Thursday when the consumer price index report revealed prices instead rose in July.

THE FACTS: Leprosy, officially known as Hansen’s disease, is a bacterial infection that can affect the nerves, skin, eyes, and lining of the nose. While the disease has historically been uncommon in the U.S., a new report about cases in Florida has stirred false claims that federal officials are...

Civilians in 37 settlements of the Kupiansk area are told to leave because of "constant Russian shelling".

A self-proclaimed white supremacist has been arrested on charges that he made online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial of a man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

The video went viral for the "epic fight", but for many it was a powerful contrast with America's past.

A Black-led venture capital fund is being sued by the man behind the case to ban affirmative action from higher education.

Approximately 7.57 million Britons are waiting for routine healthcare treatment in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, according to new numbers released on Thursday. Slightly over a month after the NHS's 75th anniversary, fresh data reveal that wait times for the U.K.'s nationalized...

Craig Deleeuw Robertson was fatally shot when agents were trying to serve a search warrant at his Provo home.

Democratic legislators in Nevada have rejected a proposal from Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo to shore up a private school scholarship program with unallocated federal money.

The rate of price growth rose to 3.2% in July but analysts said the underlying picture showed progress.

The autoworkers' union wants to make sure electric vehicle plants can be organized and that subsidies aren't favoring non-union companies.

The list of gifts and hospitality Justice Clarence Thomas has received from wealthy friends is more extensive than previously known, according to a new ProPublica report.

The stunning betting estimates for the pro golfer are from Walters' own detailed record, described in an excerpt of his book, “Gambler: Secrets from a Life of Risk.”

The Ecuadorian presidential candidate who was fatally shot at a political rally was unafraid to take on criminal networks and a political elite he accused of corruption.

Launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon on Friday was conducted without assistance the European Space Agency.

In a handwritten statement filed with police, Dameion Pickett described being attacked by boaters in the confrontation on the Montgomery Riverfront.

The U.N. Security Council will hold its first open meeting on North Korea’s dire human rights situation since 2017 next week. U.S.

About 49,449 people took their own lives last year, an estimated 3% increase compared to 2021, according to provisional findings from U.S. death certificates.

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on Thursday to criminal charges related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company Richard Branson founded — launched its first space tourism mission, a major step toward delivering on decades of promises.

Northern Ireland’s top police officer has apologized for what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach, in which the personal information of more than 10,000 officers and staff was released to the public.

Since the 1970s, the Iowa State Fair has served as an all-encompassing pit stop for some good, old-fashioned retail politicking.

Hardwick was also a writer and story editor on the show, which consisted of well over 200 episodes. As a producer, he won an Emmy in 1999 for outstanding animated program.

President Joe Biden is stuck between a rock and a hard place as the United Auto Workers prepare to walk off the job in September over concerns about the nation's switch to electric vehicles.UAW's potential strike specifically at workers at factories producing EV batteries for Ford, General...

A statement alleging that Lil Tay, who rose to stardom as a rapper and influencer on social media, had died was deleted on Thursday from her verified Instagram account.

Turkey’s defense ministry says a spate of attacks by Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq killed at least six Turkish soldiers.

The Tennessee Valley Authority said 70% of the complaints it has received this year involve the rural electric system run by the city of Holly Springs, Mississippi, which is prone to lose power without warning.

Michael Goodman, 43, is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Serabi Medina.

THE FACTS: Social media users are twisting the facts around a political contribution to suggest that DeSantis is being financially supported by a voting systems company that was at the center of false claims and conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election.

This soul-searching on the right shows how fractured the anti-abortion movement remains on both tactics and messaging more than a year after they achieved their decades-long goal of toppling Roe v. Wade.

Iran has transferred five Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest in exchange for billions of dollars frozen in South Korea, U.S. and Iranian officials said Thursday, in a deal that comes after months of heightened tensions between the two countries.

A distant hurricane and severe drought conditions combined to create the kind of disaster that some scientists say show how climate change is a "threat multiplier."

The fresh charges accuse Mr Trump and two aides of conspiring to conceal surveillance footage.

THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a manipulated video made to appear the former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate was shut down while on the show.

A media-sparked audit of a Republican Federal Election Commission member came up empty-handed, clearing him of ethics violations but not after taking several shots for his lack of cooperation in the investigation.The FEC’s inspector general found that Commissioner James "Trey" Trainor III...

A Tennessee judge dismissed the case against Angel Bumpass, 28, who was convicted of murdering Franklin Bonner, 68, and sentenced to life in prison.

An Ecuadorian police report says the six men arrested as suspects in the assassination of an anti-corruption presidential candidate are Colombian nationals.

Alan Dale Covington, 55, was convicted of the hate crime of assaulting three people, including Luis Lopez, then 18, who sustained major injuries.

“Rust” film armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in relation to the fatal shooting of the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, court documents filed Wednesday and obtained by CNN show.

THE FACTS: Biden gave a rare televised interview to MSNBC’s "Deadline: White House" last June, where he discussed topics including the Supreme Court and his reelection campaign.

Many hospitals say they’ve skipped, delayed or rationed medications, including critical cancer drugs, as the crisis across the country continues.

BBC research reveals that women in Africa spend up to 13% of their income on menstrual products.

The 17-year-old suspect has been indicted by a grand jury in O'Shae Sibley's death in Brooklyn, New York.

The California Public Utilities Commission voted to approve the rival services to operate around the clock.

Comer's promise follows a Republican-led investigation that has largely focused on Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings but shown no direct links to the president.

Nine Michigan Republicans who were allegedly part of a plan to have "fake electors" counted in the tabulation of the 2020 presidential vote have pleaded not guilty.

Karol Chwiesiuk, using a racial epithet, told his cousin "don't snitch" after he entered the U.S. Capitol, the FBI said.

Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.

Turkey no longer feels safe for many Uyghurs as it “closely aligns itself with Beijing,” according to a report shared exclusively with NBC News before publication.

The mayor was on the island as deadly wildfires prompted widespread evacuations.

Former President Donald Trump said that he has made his decision on whether or not to attend the first Republican presidential debate, but he said he won't announce it until next week. In his first interview since being indicted in a third case, Trump announced to Newsmax's Eric Bolling that he...

Ukraine’s navy warned that military threats from Russia and sea mines remain along all shipping routes.