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Blackmail. An alleged orgy with prostitutes. Accusations of sex with an underage girl. And a convoluted extortion plot involving a likely dead American hostage in Iran. Even by Florida standards, the Matt Gaetz saga is d...

"It sucks. Nobody wants that there. But the question is, is the environment safe enough to be able to take it down?" asked Rep. Tim Ryan      

Three men were injured Friday evening when a driver ran into a Chicago Fire Department vehicle with its lights and sirens activated, triggering a seven-vehicle crash in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the city's South Si...

Republican legislators now have more oversight and power over elections and the county officials who count the votes. The secretary of state has less.      

Capitol attack suspect Noah Green in recent months showed growing support on social media for Louis Farrakhan and the extremist Nation of Islam group.      

A 22-year-old armed man who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer during a foot pursuit in the Portage Park neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side was identified on Friday, official said.

A 25-year-old man drove his car into Officer Evans and another officer, then lunged at them with a knife

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Florida elementary school teacher is facing charges alleging he solicited online to have sex with a 2-year-old and traveled to meet the child. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said in a n...

Police don't have a suspect, and circumstances of the party and possible motive are still under investigation, police say.      

And they say Russia doesn't rig elections.

April the Giraffe, who became an internet celebrity by giving birth on a YouTube livestream in 2017, has died at the age of 20.

Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a bill easing background checks and permits.

A Dallas woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing a nightclub dancer’s death by performing an illegal cosmetic butt injection on her in Missouri

Here is what we know as of 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has announced it intends to release video evidence of this week's shooting by Chicago police of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, deviating from a long-standing policy to withhold vide...

The mummies traveled 3 miles south from the Egyptian Museum to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

Western complicity in maintaining the Syrian conflict

He’s the Buttigieg of jokes. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was mocked by conservative critics online after a video appeared to show security staffers unloading his bike from the back of an SUV so that he coul...

Three people were killed and four others shot when a house party in Wilmington, NC, went bad Friday night. Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams offered few details about the incident, which happened around midnight, ac...

A small boy strolled up to Pope Francis during his Good Friday service, in a surprising exchange at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Rep. Matt Gaetz is pursuing a risky strategy in publicizing a federal investigation against him, according to legal experts.      

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: "People like me and you are not really supposed to be aware" of container ships like the one that was stuck in the Suez Canal, sai...