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Summing up the year in politics for 2020 takes a mere five words: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

A Fort Drum soldier and a teenage boy have been charged in the kidnapping and killing of a 20-year-old Army corporal found buried under snow in New Jersey earlier this month. Pvt. Jamaal Mellish, 23, and the 16-year-old,...

Chicago police made public Wednesday night additional dashcam recordings, body-worn camera footage and other documents from the raid on Anjanette Young's home in February 2019.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke Wednesday about the first case of a more transmissible strain of the coronavirus detected in California. The variant, which was first identified in the U.K., h...

Mr. Little confessed to 93 murders, at least 50 of which were verified by law enforcement officers, the F.B.I. said.

The unverified intelligence echoes a similar report, deemed credible by the C.I.A. but dismissed by the president, that Russian military agents had offered payments for attacks on Americans in Afghanistan.

Casey Anthony P.I.? The onetime accused child-killer appears to have launched a private investigation firm in Florida, public records show. Paperwork for a new company called "Case Research & Consulting Services LLC” w...

Cops did not provide any description of the man who was killed.

Target is recalling nearly 300,000 infant rompers and 181,000 infant girls' swimsuits because snaps could break or detach and cause a choking hazard.       

A worker at a Wisconsin medical facility was fired for deliberately destroying over 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, a report said. Aurora Medical Center said in a statement obtained by Fox6 that the worker at their Gr...

Around the world, many furloughed employees are toughing out the coronavirus pandemic by taking second or third jobs.

A woman who earned the nickname the “Dancing Nurse” for cheering her COVID-19 patients with her moves while volunteering across the country has contracted the virus. Registered nurse Ana Wilkinson, who had been treat...

A man who once operated a company that managed cadavers for research was arrested Tuesday for allegedly dumping donated human remains in an Arizona forest, a report said. Walter Mitchell, 59, is accused of traveling from...

Simla, Colo., an isolated ranching community, is the site of the first known case in the United States of a new, more infectious variant of the coronavirus.

Barry Allen said the customer was already hurling profanities at workers at the Circle K shop in Elyria, Ohio when he walked in, Allen told Mark One Sports.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine concerned about nursing home compliance. Police keep people from Times Square on New Year's Eve. Latest COVID news.       

60 Minutes reports on how Curtis Flowers, tried six times for the same crime, was freed from death row with help from a podcast. See the story, Sunday.

An exhibition at the Museum of Natural History is the sum of all lessons on hue.

GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pronounced Trump's bigger checks as dead on arrival even thought Democrats say they have the 60 votes needed to pass it.

Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia will quarantine after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19, his campaign announced Thursday, with just days to go before the state's runoff race ...

Yes, if you're in Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing or Manila. Here's how the rest of the world is counting down to 2021.

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