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Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party’s choreographed rollout of a new candidate, Kamala Harris.
The legal team for President Joe Biden’s son and prosecutors will appear in a California courtroom Wednesday as the judge weighs what evidence can be presented to the jury.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency said it was searching four homes, investigating allegations of human trafficking, the trafficking of minors and sexual intercourse with a minor.
Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police near Chicago’s Israeli consulate on second night of DNC
Some demonstrators set an American flag on fire in the street as the second night of the Democratic National Convention took place about 2 miles away.
Kamala Harris rallied thousands of voters in one packed arena as former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama energized millions more on Harris’ behalf inside another.
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Federal Trade Commission that would have made it easier for employees to quit a job and work for a competitor.
A duck boat crew saved a young child and the boy's father from a river in Massachusetts.
Trump campaigns to ‘make America safe again’ as Democratic convention zeroes in on his felony record
Trump stood alongside sheriff’s deputies in the city of Howell and tarred Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, as the “ringleader” of a “Marxist attack on law enforcement” across the country.
With President Joe Biden having addressed delegates, the week’s full focus now turns to Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
An interim report released in March said law enforcement should have seized the shooter’s guns and put him in protective custody weeks before the shootings.
Speaking in his political hometown of Chicago, the nation’s first Black president will honor President Joe Biden’s legacy after his exit from the campaign while making the case for another historic figure, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Blinken’s comments on ending his latest Israel-Hamas peace mission were notably bare of the optimism that officials expressed going into his trip.
The accident took place at the Highfield Festival at Stoermthaler Lake in Germany.
George Helmy will succeed Menendez until the November election results for the Senate seat are certified late in the month, the governor said.
Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered the world’s oldest person at 117 years old, has died, her family said on Tuesday.
Boeing has stopped test flights of a new version of its 777 jetliner after discovering a damaged structural part.
Biden boarded the Sikorsky-made helicopter after arriving on Air Force One in Chicago where he spoke Monday evening at the Democratic National Convention.
Derek Chauvin, the ex-officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was transferred to a new prison almost nine months after he was stabbed.
BMW is recalling more than 720,000 vehicles due to an issue with the water pump’s electrical connector that could potentially lead to a fire.
Democrats are looking to the weeklong event to slingshot Harris toward a faceoff with Republican Donald Trump.
Hunter Biden’s lawyers had urged the judge to dismiss the case accusing him of a four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in taxes.
Protesters marched along a mile-long route ending at a park near the United Center, where the convention is being held, as hundreds of police officers lined the streets.
It was the first time the U.S. government had assigned blame for the attack.
Santos has previously pleaded not guilty to a range of alleged financial crimes, including lying to Congress about his wealth, collecting unemployment benefits while actually working and using campaign contributions to pay for personal expenses.
In Chicago, Biden has decided to get back up and show the difference between stepping aside and quitting.
Dubbed “the king of daytime talk,” Donahue was the first to incorporate audience participation in a talk show.
Actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed when he interrupted three thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car on May 25. P
Trump is visiting battleground states this week as he struggles to adjust to Harris as his new rival
Trump will attempt to undercut the Democratic celebration with a jam-packed schedule that includes daily events in battleground states tied to subjects where Republicans think they hold an advantage.
A Kenosha County judge sentenced 24-year-old Chrystul Kizer on Monday to 11 years of initial confinement followed by 5 years of extended supervision.
Ernesto has regained hurricane status as the storm churns away from Bermuda and heads farther out into the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke after holding a 2 1/2 hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day, and will travel to Egypt and Qatar for further negotiations.
More than 17,000 AT&T workers in nine states across the Southeast are on strike after accusing the company of unfair labor practices during contract negotiations this summer.
Gosder Cherilus, a first-round pick of the Detroit Lions in 2008 who also played for the Indianapolis Colts and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was arrested early Sunday
The White House has dismissed House impeachment inquiry as a “stunt” and encouraged House Republicans to “move on.”
Biden is expected to use his keynote address as a symbolic handoff of his party to Harris, capping five decades in Democratic politics.
U.S. and South Korean troops kicked off a large-scale exercise Monday aimed at strengthening their combined defense capabilities against nuclear-armed North Korea.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, will campaign by bus in southwestern Pennsylvania before they arrive in Chicago for their party's political convention.
The former president's remarks Saturday came as Democrats prepare for their four-day national convention that kicks off Monday in Chicago and will mark the party’s welcoming of Harris as their nominee.
He is the longest-imprisoned U.S. inmate to be exonerated, according to data kept by The National Registry of Exonerations.
The prolific actor was able to combine toughness with an appealing, vulnerable quality that made him one of France’s memorable leading men.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center warns of life-threatening surf and rip currents along the East Coast of the United States and Canada.
U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with someone who twice opened fire at an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case.
President Joe Biden will give the keynote address Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The theme park where the twins were born said their mother is the world’s oldest first-time giant panda mother on record.
Home sellers have traditionally offered a blanket commission to a buyer’s agent when they listed their home on the market.
Susan Lorincz faces up to 30 years in prison in the June 2023 killing of Ajike Owens in Florida.
Tropical storm conditions including strong winds and life-threatening floods are expected to start affecting Bermuda on Friday.
The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the planned sports streaming venture by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Vice President Kamala Harris is promoting a broad set of economic proposals that would offer new tax breaks and lower the cost of living for Americans.
