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Frankie Valli is disputing a wave of news reports that he has retired, calling the claim false after outlets took at face value a statement from his younger brother suggesting the 92-year-old singer's decades-long career had ended.

The Democratic Party's deep fractures over the Israel-Hamas conflict spilled into the open at its interfaith gathering Friday as Jewish and Palestinian American members squared off over charged phrases like "from the river to the sea" and the word ...

Violent crime in the U.S. plummeted last year to roughly 1.1 million violent crimes, a 9.3% drop from 2024 and the largest one-year decline on record, President Trump announced ahead of the FBI's release of its latest crime statistics.

Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who co-starred with Will Smith in "King Richard," defended Smith's decision to slap comedian Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, arguing the First Amendment shouldn't "protect a--holes." "I know that he wanted to protect his ...

Taking on the Supreme Court is high on the priority list for Democrats, should they win back Congress after the midterms.

The lack of nationally televised games for the Wizards in the 2026-27 season shows the NBA is skeptical of the team being good.

Actor MARK RUFFALO says RFK Jr. "has killed the lettuce market by not getting to the bottom of these outbreaks and playing politics with everything. We can't trust the CDC or him."

A potential disaster was averted Friday when a Phoenix air traffic controller recognized two American Airlines jets mistakenly were flying the same flight number and acted quickly to avoid confusion and keep them a safe distance apart.

Reddit will join the S&P 500 next week, giving the wide-ranging online forum a boost in prestige and investments.

Speaking Friday, Trump said after the Iran war is hammered out, "pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States."