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The wide receiver caught a touchdown in his first game as a New England Patriot, five days after he was sued on allegations of rape and sexual assault.

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Hurricane Dorian, a dangerous Category 4 storm, is battering in the Bahamas, and it's slowly crawling toward the US. Follow here for the latest.

Scientists know that squirrels respond to birds' threat calls. A new study finds that the chatter of birds at rest informs them when danger has passed.

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The Bernie Sanders campaign canceled three South Carolina events Saturday afternoon to help the Vermont senator combat a hoarse voice. “After a vigorous ...

After a Pineville man receives probation for a house fire that destroyed a woman's home and killed her family pets, she's speaking out about what she says is ...

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An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend a peanut allergy treatment for FDA approval. The drug, called Palforzia ...

President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted that he was glad to hear of Elliott Management's stake in AT&T, saying that the activist investor could help the ...

A hand-drawn swastika was discovered inside an office building at the Department of Homeland Security Nebraska Avenue Complex, a source confirmed to ...

The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future.

Hurricane Dorian is continuing to inch up the US coast near Charleston, South Carolina, after leaving terrible damage and residents stranded in the Bahamas.

Cheers and screams bounced off the walls of the Capitol Building's Senate Chamber when the Driver's License Access and Privacy Act, also known as Green ...

The Conservative party has been funding ads on Facebook that present a BBC News article as endorsing the government's inflated figure for school spending ...

Proposed "Spaceline" space elevator to the moon could be feasible, and could simplify efforts to mine raw materials from the lunar surface.

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A conservative television network sued Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million on Monday for calling it "paid Russian propaganda."

A senior White House official said the U.S. is "absolutely not" considering an interim trade deal with China.

Authorities say a burglar broke into a Florida home, cooked himself an early morning meal and told the resident there to "go back to sleep." The home's occupant ...

Republican officials in South Carolina and Nevada voted Saturday to cancel their nominating contests in 2020, prompting President Donald Trump's long-shot ...

A recent study concludes that wearing hearing aids is associated with later onset of dementia and a reduced risk of anxiety, depression, and falls.

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A woman in Kansas is the sixth person to die in the U.S. from the severe respiratory illness being linked to vaping, health officials in the state confirmed Tuesday.

Facebook said Thursday it will ban The Epoch Times from advertising on the platform after the conservative news outlet hid its multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad ...

JOLIET, Ill. — More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last ...

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The Republican party has taken “a wrong turn” under Donald Trump, according to three GOP challengers to the president, and is heading down the road to ...

Jamie R. Riley, the University of Alabama's assistant vice president and dean of students, resigned from his position on Thursday after less than seven months ...

Police are working leads now after a shooting happened around midnight.

The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city's recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby is a "domestic terrorist organization.".

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In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the ...

A 17-year-old was arrested after 10 people were shot following a high school football game in Alabama, according to police. The victims in the shooting, which ...

After slamming Canada over the weekend, Dorian has finally moved out to the northern Atlantic Ocean and has lost all of its tropical characteristics.

Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Cincinnati, Ohio, are closing as a result of surmounting pressure from various regulations on abortion providers and ...

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Former CMA host Brad Paisley is starring in and executive producing a new comedy series called Fish Out of Water. It will be available to stream on Amazon.

Significant damage was reported late Tuesday night after a tornado touched down in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The decoupling of the world's two weightiest economies seems as inescapable as its extent and global impact remains incalculable.

KSI and Logan Paul did what they do best Saturday: entertain. In a press conference held outside Los Angeles' Staples Center, the home for their boxing ...

The Bureau of Land Management will offer leases to the 1.6m-acre coastal plain which is home to threatened polar bears.

US President Donald Trump says he has called off peace negotiations with the Taliban that sought to end America's 18-year war in Afghanistan. Mr Trump ...

The final lineup for the third Democratic debate, hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision, is set for a single night in Houston on Sept. 12.

The 37-year-old Mexican man had been in ICE custody in Illinois since Sept. 3.

Fox News has signed former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a contributor, the network announced on Thursday.

On a hot June day in Fort Scott, Kan., as the Good Ol' Days festival was in full swing, 7-year-old Kaidence Anderson sat in the shade with her family, waiting for a ...

Amber Rudd has quit Boris Johnson's cabinet, with an outspoken attack on the government's approach to Brexit. The ex-work and pensions secretary said the ...

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Astronomers have spotted a giant exoplanet that they say is unlike any other. Planet HR 5183 b has three times the mass of Jupiter and travels on an incredibly ...

Ryan and his parents have been slapped with a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission over his sponsored *content*.

Texas Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez on Sunday flipped his support from Julián Castro to Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying now ...

France's health minister says 1,500 people died in this summer's heat wave in France — but a campaign of public awareness saved many lives. Agnes Buzyn ...

241 NYPD officers have died of 9/11-related illnesses since the attack on the World Trade Center.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Tehran and said the strikes were not launched from Yemen.

A northern California mother, father and step-father of a 15-year-old girl reportedly are behind bars after police accused them of assaulting and kidnapping a ...

Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, told CNBC that a ban on fracking would have "major implications" for the U.S. energy industry.

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The suspect who allegedly gunned down seven people and injured more than 20 in a Labor Day weekend massacre in western Texas appeared to have ...

A New York Uber driver has been arraigned for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl during her ride home from a Sweet 16 party, prosecutors said.

Lavatory valued at £1m taken from Winston Churchill's birthplace just before 5am on Saturday.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in eastern Australia as firefighters battle more than 130 blazes across two states. Officials say the ...

The third Democratic primary debate, hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision, is slated for Thursday in Houston. Here's how to watch.

Some reporters are complaining that President Trump's recent "gaggles" on the White House lawn -- as Marine One's helicopter rotors blare in the background ...

The new measures will include an early warning system for use during elections, the BBC says.

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The number of tourists visiting Hong Kong tumbled in August as anti-government protests gripped the city, in a sign of the mounting economic cost of the unrest.

The raging fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have captured the public's imagination worldwide for the last few weeks and recently prompted the country to ...

Dairy Queen has had to oddly clarify that the store's food does not contain "human meat" after one of its South Carolina restaurants was swarmed by federal ...

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Research during Ireland's abortion referendum highlights risks for social networks.

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A group of 50 states and territories in the US have launched an investigation into Google's dominance of the online advertising market. The coalition warned that ...

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Two newborn panda cubs at Berlin Zoo have been unexpectedly caught up in Hong Kong's political unrest, after German newspapers started a campaign to ...

The world could be free of malaria - one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity - within a generation, a major report says. Each year there are ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned a wave of looting and violence mostly targeting nationals of other African countries. "There can be no ...