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An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning.

Police in Perry, Iowa, say there was a shooting Thursday at the city's high school, on students' first day back in classes after their annual winter break.

Louisiana is among multiple states still wrangling over congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June that Alabama had violated the Voting Rights Act.

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three federal firearms charges that emerged after his earlier deal imploded, setting the case on a track toward a possible trial in 2024.

The growing feud between Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is expected to come to a head on Monday, when Gaetz files a motion to vacate the chair.

Feinstein served as California’s senior senator since 1992 and was one of several trailblazing women elected to Congress that year.

The judge found that Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets.

Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.

A jury has awarded advice columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.

Police say one person has been fatally shot and at least four others injured in a shooting in a Midtown Atlanta building.

FBI agents converged Thursday at Teixeira’s Massachusetts home and heavily armed tactical agents took a man wearing a T-shirt and shorts into custody outside the property.

Authorities say a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville left several people wounded.

In 2013, Benedict announced that he would become the first pope in 600 years to resign.

It’s a victory for state prosecutors after months of mixed results in the main case in federal court.

An outage involving a Coast Guard marine warning system and “data gaps” in radar systems were factors in last year’s deadly capsize of an oil industry vessel during severe storms off of Louisiana’s coast, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report issued Tuesday.

The lawsuit comes after a three-year investigation.

A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, helmet and body armor was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison, the longest sentence imposed so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootingsripping through communities nationwide.

The House Jan. 6 committee will share 20 of its interview transcripts with the Justice Department as federal prosecutors have been increasingly focused on efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election.