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Dillon Harris was enjoying a day off with his family last week, celebrating his son’s 5th birthday. The family of four had just wrapped up a Grinch-themed lunch when, on their way home, Harris’s wife spotted smoke rising from the roof of a house in Madison, Ohio.

You hear Santa before you see him. “Ho, ho, ho!” he bellows as he descends the escalator. “Merry Christmas!” On this Saturday morning at the Tysons Corner Center mall in Virginia, children and adults smile at the sight of the bushy-bearded man in the red suit.

After years of debate, investigations and conspiracy theories, the Department of Justice is scheduled on Friday to finally release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

WASHINGTON – In a rare evening address from the White House, President Donald Trump boasted Wednesday of his accomplishments and blamed his Democratic predecessor for soaring consumer prices as his party braces for a tough midterm election next year.

WASHINGTON – An expanded U.S. federal health care subsidy that grew out of the pandemic is all but certain to expire at the year’s end as the House of Representatives advanced a Republican health care bill on Wednesday that would not renew the tax credit.

The U.S. is preparing a fresh round of sanctions on Russia’s energy sector to increase the pressure on Moscow should President Vladimir Putin reject a peace agreement with Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.

Americans like Social Security, but no one wants to pay for it, a new survey shows.

President Donald Trump said he was ordering a “TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS” going into and leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Caracas amid a U.S. military buildup in the region and the threat of land strikes.

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, including maggots infesting her gangrened foot, that the hospital called an elder abuse hotline and then the police, her son alleged in a lawsuit.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors on Tuesday announced murder charges against Nick Reiner, days after his parents — Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner — were found stabbed inside their Brentwood home. Prosecutors filed two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances against Nick Reiner on Tuesday afternoon. Reiner, 32, also faces a special allegation ...

Trails maintained by the U.S. Forest Service nationwide are being “abandoned” and deteriorating rapidly, threatening visitor safety, after the Trump administration cut staff, according to an internal report obtained by The Washington Post.

The Trump administration’s attempts to calm persistent affordability concerns have run into a stiff opponent: the U.S. economy.

Authorities on Tuesday once again asked members of the public for help identifying the suspected gunman who killed two Brown University students in a classroom over the weekend, as the manhunt stretched past 72 hours and residents remained on edge.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump ordered on Tuesday a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro’s government, targeting its main source of income.

WASHINGTON — Closed-door briefings on the Trump administration’s military campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats provided lawmakers with little clarity on the overall strategy of the operation and whether the ultimate goal is to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. After separate House and Senate briefings Tuesday from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco ...