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School administrators in Louisiana say they are investigating the aggressive takedown of a female middle school student caught on video this week. The video, shot at Ponchatoula Junior High School, on the northwest side of Lake Pontchartrain, shows a man slinging the student to the ground and placing his knee […]

Republican lawmakers in Florida are looking to narrow the scope of a sweeping ballot measure that restored the right to vote for people with felony convictions, a move that could potentially impact the state’s political climate. The effort sets up a political fight over the broader issue of felon voting […]

Joe Biden’s spokesman said Friday that the former vice president does not recall kissing a Nevada political candidate on the back of her head in 2014. The allegation was made in a New York Magazine article written by Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state representative and the 2014 Democratic nominee […]

Gaza health officials said Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man near the perimeter fence with Israel early Saturday, hours before a planned mass rally that is to mark a year of weekly border protests. The fatal shooting was bound to raise tensions at a time when Egyptian mediators, […]

An Arizona man killed by an exploding Takata air bag inflator brings the worldwide death toll to at least 24. Armando V. Ortega, 55, of Yuma, died June 11, 2018, three days after his 2002 Honda Civic was involved in a crash in near Phoenix, according to the Arizona Department […]

In a stunning about-face, State Department officials said that President Donald Trump is cutting off all direct assistance to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. “At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY [fiscal year] 2017 and FY 2018 […]

President Donald Trump issued a new permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday in an attempt to undermine recent moves by a Montana court to block the project. The controversial TransCanada Corporation’s Keystone XL pipeline was first proposed under President George W. Bush but then later stopped by President […]

President Donald Trump on Friday again threatened to completely close the southern border or “large” sections of it if Mexico doesn’t stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. without authorization — a move that could come as early as next week. “If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming […]

A South Carolina junior wrestler who was not expected to walk or talk again after he suffered traumatic brain injuries in a horrific car crash has spoken his first words in nearly two years. The moment, captured on video, shows 16-year-old Jackson Gannon of Honea Path, South Carolina, saying the […]

Lawyers for the family of Raniya Wright, the fifth-grader who died days after suffering injuries from a classroom fight with another student, said in a statement Friday that relatives were “struggling to make sense of the incident that took her life.” “Raniya’s untimely passing leaves a void in this family […]