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Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday by the same board that a day earlier rejected his brother Erik's appeal for freedom after serving decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The reason was the same: ...

Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, according to a Saturday court ...

President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. It has five new districts that would favor Republicans.

Canada is dropping many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday.

Early Friday, FBI agents searched the Maryland home of John Bolton, the former national security adviser in President Trump's first administration. Agents were also seen entering a building in Washington where Bolton has an office. Bolton has become ...

In our news wrap Friday, the Pentagon says National Guard troops will start carrying firearms in D.C. as part of President Trump's security crackdown of the city, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the . ...

The international organization that monitors hunger crises around the world has declared that parts of Gaza are in famine. The U.N.-backed group of experts said that half a million people in Gaza, a quarter of the population, are facing "catastrophic ...

As many as 132,000 children in Gaza under the age of five are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition between now and next summer, according to a U.N.-backed group of experts. Half of Gaza's population is children, and many of them have been left .. ...

Target is reeling as sales have stalled and its stock price has plunged. The company faced backlash after a rollback of its DEI initiatives prompted a boycott that slowed store traffic nationwide, one of the factors that pushed CEO Brian Cornell to . ...

Since taking office in February, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty against 19 people, including nine defendants in cases in which the Biden administration had sought lesser sentences. But judges have ...