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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) on Monday inadvertently undercut his party's case against President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents during a Fox News interview.

The celebrity gossip site RadarOnline revealed that the new chief of CNN, Chris Licht, is considering turning the primetime lineup over to comedians.

President Joe Biden lashed out at Republican lawmakers Monday as being "fiscally demented," in an early volley at the opposition party now controlling the House of Representatives.

A 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby, along with four other people, were killed in a shooting at a Central California home on Monday, CBS News reports.

U.S. House Republicans included in the new rules for the chamber they passed this month a provision meant to make it easier for Congress to give away public lands.

Notorious accused Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested at a medical clinic in Sicily on Monday while he was undergoing treatment under an alias, Italian police said. Denaro, nicknamed The Skinny One, had long been considered one of Italy’s most wanted criminals. He spent the last three decades on the lam following accusations he committed a string of high-profile crimes, including massacres and kidnappings, according to police and Italian news reports. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni... Читать дальше...

Republican Rep. Rick Allen of Georgia suggested last week that he would support raising the Social Security retirement age—a policy change that would slash benefits across the board—because people have approached him and said they "actually want to work longer."

The revelations that top-secret documents were found at President Joe Biden's home and offices dating back to his tenure as vice president has agitated the political sphere and raised eyebrows about policies dictating how classified materials should be handled.

A Black woman who was a member of the Mormon church told her story to the Mormon Stories Podcast in November last year is now getting some viral attention, Newsweek reports.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If Kyre Mitchell needs a reminder of the Charlotte protests arising from the 2020 murder of George Floyd, he need look no further than his right hand — specifically where his middle and ring fingers used to be. Mitchell blames police and the City of Charlotte for what’s missing. Just before midnight on May 30, 2020, a “flashbang” grenade thrown by a police officer into an uptown bottleneck of Floyd protesters and bystanders detonated in Mitchell’s right hand as he attempted to throw it away, his new federal lawsuit claims. Читать дальше...

Fox News panelist David Webb argued with network contributor Lisa Boothe on Monday after she called for a "raid" of President Joe Biden's Delaware home.

Scientists said Monday they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts -- and one day maybe even trigger them.

Former President Donald Trump lashed out for the second day in a row about the classified documents that were found inside President Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home.

Donald Trump’s president campaign is under fire after a local news anchor from Florida accused the organization of sending out a fundraising email that appeared to be from Governor Ron DeSantis. But the Trump campaign says the email is fake.

Three people have been arrested after a confrontation with a DoorDash driver in an Albuquerque neighborhood this Saturday, local news outlet KOAT 7 reports.

For over a decade Republicans have been trying to co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s popularity – although not his policies or beliefs.

He's long been laboring to complete a promised biography of William Shakespeare, but now Boris Johnson is turning to a life story closer to home: his own.

A political analyst suggested Monday on CNN that Republicans were acting hypocritically by vowing to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents after defending former President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK — He was once Mexico’s top cop — and now a Brooklyn jury will decide if he was a lapdog for a drug lord's empire. Jury selection is slated to start this week in the federal trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former secretary of public security, who’s accused of taking briefcases of cash from the Sinaloa cartel while it was run by the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Garcia Luna, 54, ran Mexico’s Federal Investigation Agency from 2001 to 2006 and served as the country’s secretary of public security from 2006 to 2012... Читать дальше...

Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert accused California Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of being "conspiracy theorists" and said they should be removed from the House Intelligence Committee, Newsweek reports.

Speaking at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church on Sunday, President Joe Biden said the US civil rights leader's dream of racial equality and justice had not yet come true, and renewed his call to fight for the soul of America.

An Indiana father is facing charges after a young child was seen playing with a gun on a live TV program Saturday night.

The estranged wife of scandal-plagued Virginia state Sen. Joe Morrissey is alleging that he committed serial adultery and is lying about child abuse accusations against her boyfriend in an explosive new series of allegations, reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

TOPEKA, Kansas — Four survivors of childhood sexual abuse revealed details about the worst moments of their lives in a public rebuke of state law that protects pedophiles from criminal prosecution or civil lawsuits.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge a person on character and not race.