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President Joe Biden's commutations Monday of federal prisoners sitting on death row included a Michigan man convicted of killing a woman he was accused of sexual assaulting and suspected in the deaths of at least three ...Read more

Thirty years ago, a New Orleans officer offered protection to an accused drug dealer in exchange for a deadly favor: killing a woman who filed a police brutality complaint against him, court documents say.

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President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Charlotte native Bo Hines, a former college football player and Republican congressional candidate from North Carolina, to a national leadership role on cryptocurrency.

On Sunday...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a billionaire with Las Vegas ties as the next United States ambassador to Italy, according to a Saturday announcement.

Tilman Fertitta, 67, is the chairman, chief executive ...Read more

WASHINGTON — If President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that the United States should have control of Greenland sounds familiar, that’s because he’s said it before — during his first term as president.

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The father of an Atlanta federal prison guard who was killed 30 years ago said life in prison without parole is not an adequate punishment for the man who bludgeoned his son to death.

That man, Anthony George Battle, is ...Read more

A Chicago podiatrist who fatally shot a patient who was cooperating in a federal fraud probe of his Medicare billings was among 37 people who had their federal death sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.

In January ...Read more

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row Monday, and they will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole rather than face execution, according to the White House.

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The holidays provide an apt time to pause and assess where we are.

You have every reason to be worried about what happens after Jan. 20. Many people could be harmed.

Yet I continue to have an abiding faith in the common ...Read more

Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security.

The U.S. President-elect ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced early Monday that he was commuting the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, preventing incoming President Donald Trump from carrying out their executions. The list includes ...Read more

Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security.

The U.S. President-elect ...Read more

Life in an animal shelter for dogs and cats and other creatures that have the misfortune to end up there is never great. They can languish for months, waiting to be adopted out to what animal advocates hope will be a “...Read more

As an L.A. native and a professional traveler, I know getting a ride to LAX is rarely fun. But even I was tested in summer 2023 after an Uber and then a Lyft canceled on me when I needed to be at the airport in an hour and...Read more

Everyone wanted to come to California — that was the generational backdrop of my parents and grandparents. Then, in the 1950s, housing was so abundant that a family of rural Norwegian immigrants could scrape together $8,...Read more

Defeated Democrats have once again embarked on a pointless, post-election pursuit of their political Holy Grail – finding the votes to eliminate the Constitution’s Electoral College.

It’s never going to happen, but ...Read more

Working outdoors in Florida is dangerous, but laborers who do back-breaking work to maintain our homes, businesses and lifestyles deserve basic protections against the brutal heat.

Instead, the state tolerates this ...Read more

Let’s stipulate this up front: The Des Moines Register’s poll of the presidential race in Iowa that was published just days before the election was miles off the mark.

The poll, overseen by veteran pollster Ann Selzer...Read more

Let’s stipulate this up front: The Des Moines Register’s poll of the presidential race in Iowa that was published just days before the election was miles off the mark.

The poll, overseen by veteran pollster Ann Selzer...Read more

David Walker ran the Government Accountability Office for a decade, under both a Republican and Democratic president. Elected officials should take him seriously when he warns that the nation is headed for fiscal blowup.

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