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Mike Stura was sifting through his mail when the phone rang. “There’s a bull running down the railroad tracks in Newark,” his friend said, urging him to scan the videos multiplying on social media. Sure enough, the footage showed a reddish brown Texas Longhorn trotting down Track 2 at Newark Penn Station.

Nearly a third of the U.S. population - 115 million Americans - is expected to travel 50 miles or more for the holidays. That's according to AAA, which is predicting the second-busiest holiday travel season since it began keeping track in 2000. That includes 7.5 million flying and at least 105 million traveling by road.

The Department of Transportation's inspector general concluded Wednesday that Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his predecessor, Elaine Chao, followed the proper rules when they used government jets for official travel.

The Supreme Court will be pressed to answer multiple questions crucial to next year's presidential election, thrust into a pivotal role not seen since its 2000 decision that sealed the victory for President George W. Bush.

The United States, attempting to contain the spread of Israel's war in Gaza, is pitching allies on expanding a multinational naval task force to address an alarming rise in attacks on commercial vessels traveling near Yemen that have posed a significant threat to global shipping.

Russia sees no current basis for holding negotiations to end its 22-month war in Ukraine, according to President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.

Henley Wollak had just one wish for the weekend before her fifth birthday. She wanted to swim at Green Island, her favorite spot near her home in Peshtigo, Wis., where the waves washed up rocks and pebbles that she often pored over, searching for glimmering sea glass. But on Aug. 13, Henley found something far more rare.

It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh, surrounded by jagged chunks of stone — evoking bombed-out buildings in the Gaza Strip and children buried beneath them.

The contentious 4-3 decision by the state’s highest court marked the first time in United States history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate. Known as the disqualification clause, the law states:

Senators working to reach a deal on toughening up U.S. border policy in exchange for sending more aid to Ukraine are continuing to hold hours-long meetings every day in the Capitol as they make slow progress on the proposal with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

In a historic decision Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Donald Trump from running in the state's presidential primary after determining that he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

AMSTERDAM – For more than two years, home for Curt Bloch was a tiny crawl space below the rafters of a modest brick home in Enschede, a Dutch city near the German border. The attic had a single small window. He shared it with two other adults.

On Dec. 11, NASA engineers anxiously gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to view a cat video, wondering if it would be in the pristine high definition for which they had hoped.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog told ambassadors from around the world the country is prepared to agree to a second humanitarian pause in fighting in exchange for the return of more hostages held by Hamas.