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A Circuit Court judge in Newport News, Virginia, ruled Friday that the first-grade teacher shot by a 6-year-old student at Richneck Elementary School in January can proceed with her $40 million lawsuit against the school division.

In the week since Robert Card stormed a bar and a bowling alley here, killing 18 people and wounding 13 others, residents in Lewiston, Maine, and nearby towns that locked down during the nearly 48-hour manhunt have emerged with questions, saying they want more than "thoughts and prayers."

Since taking office, President Joe Biden has traveled a grim path through American communities desperately grieving in the wake of mass shootings: Uvalde, Texas; Monterey Park, California; Buffalo, New York; Atlanta. On Friday, he added another to the list: Lewiston, Maine.

Months after a registered nurse was accused of killing two patients and trying to kill a third, authorities in Pennsylvania have filed additional charges accusing her of mistreating 19 more patients.

Thomas K. Mattingly II, a NASA astronaut who helped bring Apollo 13 home, is dead at 87.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday said his campaign will “comply 100%” with FBI investigators involved in the raid of his top fundraiser, adding he has full confidence in her.

Donald Trump's legal team on Friday repeatedly attacked a law clerk during the former president's civil fraud trial, overshadowing Eric Trump's second day on the witness stand and prompting the judge to ban the lawyers from making public statements about his private communications with his staff.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on whether the government may ban the sale or use of "bump stocks" that can transform a semiautomatic rifle into one that shoots hundreds of bullets per minute with a single pull of the trigger.

Al Pacino’s bank account is taking some heat when it comes to supporting the octogenarian’s infant son. The 83-year-old Oscar winner, who welcomed son Roman with Noor Alfallah earlier this year, will have to pay a “base” of $30,000 each month to the 29-year-old mom, according to court documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight.

MyPillow.com boss Mike Lindell is getting the cold shoulder from election officials after the notorious conspiracy theorist claims to have created a device to prevent vote fraud.

 Since it went to war with Hamas early last month, Israel has stepped up strikes against Iran-backed militias in Syria which have moved close to the Israeli border.

Russian forces targeted Ukraine overnight with their biggest drone attack in weeks, part of what Ukrainian officials and military analysts say appears to be a campaign to wear down and probe Ukrainian air defenses before winter.

LOS ANGELES — The citrus trees at C&S Nursery in Baldwin Hills would normally be full of passionfruit, kumquats and other fruits this time of year. But last month, employees stripped dozens of them and placed them at the rear of the lot, away from the public, as part of an all-out quarantine effort aimed at eradicating one of the most destructive pests in the world: the Mediterranean fruit ...

Alan Ruck is doing fine after crashing his Rivian truck into a Los Angeles pizzeria on Tuesday. The "Succession" star was spotted Thursday leaving a convenience store in L.A. and graciously answered a few paparazzi questions about the incident.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online. Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world's major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel's principal ally, the United States.

Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Katie Porter are in nearly a dead heat in California's U.S. Senate race, well-positioned to move ahead to a runoff, a new poll shows.  

A new foundation named for late actor Matthew Perry has been launched to help people battling drug addiction.

President Biden is traveling to Lewiston, Maine, on Friday to offer his condolences to a community reeling from the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the state, where 18 people were killed last week.