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The Trump administration is updating its sanctions list to include two senior North Korean officials involved in the country’s illicit ballistic missile program. The announcement comes as top White House officials have warned that the U.S. is running out of time to solve the crisis over the regime’s nuclear missile […]

A prominent activist who calls himself the “Ultra Vulgar Butcher” for mocking and pressuring Chinese officials was given an eight-year prison sentence on charges of subversion, the harshest punishment in a sweeping crackdown on rights campaigners. The Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court on Tuesday handed down the sentence after […]

A federal appeals court has dismissed an effort to allow the sterilization of a herd of wild horses in Idaho. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month granted a request by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to stop the effort. Documents filed by BLM seeking the […]

Police are investigating the deaths of four people found in a basement apartment in Troy, New York, early Tuesday afternoon. Troy Police Capt. Dan DeWolf told local ABC affiliate WTEN the deaths appear to be suspicious and are being investigated as homicides. “Unfortunately it’s horrible, terrible, sad, sad especially at […]

President Donald Trump returned to the golf course Tuesday for his third round while on vacation in Palm Beach, one day after tweeting he’d be “back to work in order to Make America Great Again” on Christmas Day. Trump traveled from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach to the Trump […]

Three large U.S. cities filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Defense, arguing that many service members who are disqualified from gun ownership weren’t reported to the national background check system. New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia said in court papers that the military’s broken system for […]

Four people are dead from a single-car rollover crash in Kansas today amid snowy weather, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. The accident was in a westbound lane of Interstate 70 near Abilene, about 90 miles west of Topeka. The National Weather Service said “light to moderate” snow was expected in […]

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A statue of a Confederate soldier that has stood in a Georgia cemetery for more than a century had its face smashed, hands “surgically” cut and rifle taken in an act of vandalism, local officials said. In the wake of the incident, the monument at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, […]