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Former President Donald Trump easily defeated Nikki Haley in South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday, delivering a crushing blow to her hopes of gathering strength in her home state and casting grave doubt on her continued viability.

A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday in the killing of a transgender woman in what authorities said was the first federal murder trial of someone charged with a hate crime based on gender identity.

This month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first therapy for treatment of severe frostbite in the country.

Israel’s war cabinet met late Saturday to discuss the framework of a potential new deal to free hostages still held in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as protesters eager for an agreement ramped up pressure on their leaders, rallying in Jerusalem and clashing with police in central Tel Aviv.

Former President Donald Trump laid out what's in store for America should he or President Joe Biden win the 2024 presidential election, using a Saturday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to cast one nearly utopian vision of the country's future and one reminiscent of a postapocalyptic movie.

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker has also openly criticized other judges for not sufficiently considering religion in their rulings and has expressed support for the theory known as the Seven Mountain Mandate, which calls for conservative Christians to run the government and broadly influence American life.

U.S. and British forces launched dozens of strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen on Saturday night, U.S. officials said, the latest effort to stop what have become near-daily attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and nearby waterways.

Some Republican elder statesmen are trying to send a message to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) by urging him to make forceful decisions that will not please portions of the GOP conference.

The suspect charged in the death of nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus was denied bond Saturday. Jose Antonio Ibarra is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another.

Far-right activist Chaya Raichik splits her time between California, where she’s registered to vote, and Florida, where she often travels. But the place where she arguably is having the biggest impact these days is Oklahoma, a state she’s visited only once.

Russian authorities on Saturday handed the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his mother after she struggled for a week to recover it, according to his political team.

One day after its historic landing, the first private spacecraft on the moon is in good condition but has toppled over, the company that built it reported Friday. The spacecraft, named Odysseus, set down in the moon's south pole region Thursday evening, the first U.S. vehicle to land softly on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

In a sweeping rebuke of the National Rifle Association and Wayne LaPierre, the nation's most prominent gun rights group, a Manhattan jury ruled Friday that its leaders had engaged in a yearslong pattern of financial misconduct and corruption.

ICE announced Friday that 275 immigrants were arrested across the country from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16 as part of this year’s national Sex Offender Arrest and Removal operation, known as SOAR. SOAR operations focus on apprehending immigrants in the country without authorization and convicted of sex crimes.

A violent head-on collision on a two-lane highway in Central California's Madera County on Friday morning left eight people dead, with the sole survivor transported to a local hospital with major injuries, according to authorities. The deadly crash took place around 6:15 a.m. Friday on Avenue 7, a local two-lane highway, just west of Road 22, according to Javier Ruvalcaba, a California Highway ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary on Friday declared an end to a monthslong spat with Sweden over the expansion of NATO and paved the way for the Hungarian parliament to vote Monday to ratify the Nordic nation's membership in the alliance.

As Congress has largely stayed at a standstill over internet policy, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in cases that could shake up a broad swath of the online landscape and define how lawmakers could regulate social media companies.

Beyoncé’s transition into country music is being applauded by one of the genre’s living legends. “I’m a big fan of Beyoncé and very excited that she’s done a country album. So congratulations on your Billboard Hot Country number one single. Can’t wait to hear the full album!” Dolly Parton posted Thursday on Instagram.