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The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the legality of obstruction charges lodged against some 300 rioters arrested for breaking into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris praised Nevada for its abortion laws during a Las Vegas visit Monday, just days after Arizona’s state Supreme Court ruled that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable. In her speech, Harris said that women’s reproductive rights are at stake this election. “This is not about politics, this is not about ideology,” Harris told a crowd of about ...

 After several reports of artificial intelligence-generated child pornography surfaced in California, Ventura County Dist. Atty. Erik Nasarenko advocated for a change to state law to protect children who are increasingly vulnerable to this misuse of technology.

R. Kelly was convicted not only of sex trafficking but also of racketeering — charges that specify a person's "enterprise" was used to carry out criminal conduct. Sean "Diddy" Combs now faces a similar federal investigation, though the accusations against him are significantly different and it remains unclear whether they will result in criminal charges.

Two upstate police officers and an armed suspect were killed in a Sunday night shootout near Syracuse, according to authorities.  

The world’s costliest weapons program, Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 fighter jet, is getting even more expensive, according to a government watchdog.

FBI agents boarded the Dali, the container ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly three weeks ago, on Monday, the agency confirmed.  

The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a "Sopranos" episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation's sins and troubling divisions, its characters converging in a New York courtroom where, for the first time in history, a former president will stand before a jury in a criminal trial. 

Cameron Clifford had finally given in to his son’s pleas and bought him a pet octopus. After several weeks, he was getting the hang of caring for their new tentacled pet – then he discovered what looked liked dozens of “puffed-up, clear Tic Tacs” inside its den.

“Genocide Joe” is a phrase used by pro-Palestine protesters against President Biden because of his unconditional support of Israel amid its onslaught in Gaza. But supporters of former president Donald Trump adopted the chant at his campaign rally Saturday night

Alex Garland's dystopian "Civil War," set in a near-immediate future when the United States is at war with itself, sold an estimated $25.7 million in tickets at North American theaters, enough to make the film a strong No. 1, surpassing the monsters sequel "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."

A 9-year-old girl was killed and 10 others were injured in a shooting Saturday evening in Chicago’s New City neighborhood, police and the girl’s father said Sunday.

For some Israelis, it was a sleepless night, waiting for an attack by Iran and then fretting about what might follow. For others, the drones and missiles slipped past without notice - the interceptions by Israel and allied militaries giving families a protective shield as they slept.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday after Iran's overnight attack on Israel that the House would vote in the coming days on aid for Israel, and he suggested that aid for Ukraine could be included in the legislation.

NASA spent $2.2 billion to build and launch the Chandra X-Ray Observatory in 1999, and it has performed brilliantly, scrutinizing deep space, black holes, galaxy clusters and the remnants of exploded stars. Chandra’s future, unfortunately for the astronomers who love it, is gloomy.

For many shareholders, investing in Donald Trump's Truth Social is less a business calculation than a statement of faith in the former president and the business traded under his initials, DJT. Even the company’s plunging stock price doesn’t seem to have shaken that faith.

China is providing Russia with significant quantities of components to build cruise missiles and drones as well as optical parts for tanks and armored vehicles, allowing Moscow to ramp up defense production in its war against Ukraine, senior U.S. officials said.