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Democratic voters in at least four battleground states, including Florida and Pennsylvania, have received threatening emails, falsely purporting to be from the far-right group Proud Boys.
A meme implied a nefarious link between financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Barr, father of U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.
Rudy Giuliani is shown in a compromising position in a hotel room with a young woman acting as a television journalist in a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary.
An obituary for a Minneapolis-area woman who died at age 93 included one specific request for her mourners: Do not vote for Donald Trump.
Trump's rally dance has become a rare moment of levity in an otherwise miserable campaign year marked by a deadly pandemic, an economic recession and racial turmoil.
At least 10 bodies were found in an unmarked mass grave at a Tulsa cemetery where investigators are searching for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
It's difficult to make a rousing speech when you do not exist.
The company will plead guilty to three counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and violating federal anti-kickback laws, Justice Department officials said.
The children were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San Diego ordered that children in government custody be reunited with their parents.
Pope Francis gave the thumbs up in a new feature-length documentary, "Francesco."
President Donald Trump spent a decade unsuccessfully pursuing projects in China, operating an office there during his first run for president.
President Donald Trump’s sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire.
The president repeatedly blamed the U.S. House Speaker for not caring about Americans since she would not agree to his terms for COVID-19 relief aid.
A grand juror who won a court fight to speak publicly about the Breonna Taylor investigation took issue with statements by Kentucky's attorney general.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recently updated Cosby’s mug shot, something routinely done to document changes to inmates' appearance as they age.
It is America's first attempt to gather samples from an asteroid.
The incident was witnessed by co-workers preparing for election night coverage.
Activist Isabella DeLuca claimed she was "punched in the face and choked by two women" simply for carrying a Trump 2020 flag.
A manipulated image was just a lil bit misleading.
President Trump’s term will end at noon on Jan. 20, 2021. At that same instant, either he will begin a second term, or the country will have a new chief executive.
While under scrutiny for treatment of migrants, the Trump administration has been shifting blame to its predecessor.
News reports identified the hard drive's source as a computer repair shop owner in Delaware.
It's difficult to make a rousing speech when you do not exist.
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate's history with busing has haunted him on the campaign trail.
The Trump campaign has hammered the Democratic candidate on fracking and fossil fuels. But what has Biden actually said?
News reports identified the hard drive's source as a computer repair shop owner in Delaware.
A few weeks after Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife and 1-year-old daughter were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping.
Harris long ago distanced herself from the relationship.
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate's history with busing has haunted him on the campaign trail.
While under scrutiny for treatment of migrants, the Trump administration has been shifting blame to its predecessor.
