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WASHINGTON - Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander announced they would vote for the resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency for border wall funding on Thursday. …

TENNESSEE - Democratic Tennessee Rep. John DeBerry Jr. said he voted for a bill that will ban abortions in the presence of a fetal heartbeat to enhance the pride and self-esteem of women. DeBerry voted in favor of the bill so that…

CALIFORNIA – Federal officials charged several people, including two TV stars, for their alleged involvement in a nationwide college entrance bribery scheme. “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman was part…

WEST PALM BEACH - A father is facing several charges after allegedly bringing a loaded gun to a Florida middle school Monday. Christopher Freeman, 27, said he received a FaceTime call at 3 p.m. that afternoon from his son who said a…

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham pledged Thursday that he will hold hearings to get to the bottom of whether the FBI misled surveillance court judges by using the Steele dossier to obtain spy warrants…

NEW YORK CITY - A Manhattan district attorney’s idea to use $38 million in forfeiture money to test old rape kits led to 64 new convictions in the past four years. The initiative resulted in authorities testing about 55,000 rape…

WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Paul Manafort to 73 months in prison Wednesday, days after the former Trump campaign chairman received a 47-month sentence in a separate case in Virginia. U.S. District…

BEIJING – China is trying to stem an economic slowdown, including rising unemployment, continuing into the first two months of 2019 after documenting its worst year of economic growth in nearly 30 years in 2018. Beijing is…

TEXAS - Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke warned global warming “could, at its worst, lead to extinction” during his first campaign stop at a coffee shop in Keokuk, Iowa, on Thursday. O’Rourke praised the Green New…