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President Trump has created Freedom 250 to help organize events for the yearlong celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday he will veto a bill that could significantly reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was arrested in November for attempting a coup.

The Powerball jackpot is up to $1.5 billion after nobody won it Wednesday, making it the fifth-largest jackpot in the lottery's history.

U.S. stocks are jumping on Thursday following an encouraging report on inflation that could help the Federal Reserve keep cutting interest rates next year. A strong profit report from Micron Technology also helped AI stocks halt their sharp slides,

The raccoon that got drunk in a Virginia liquor store last month has become the viral video gift that keeps on giving: An animal shelter has raised $292,826 selling "Trashed Panda" merchandise.

Democratic senators on Wednesday hammered the Federal Communications Commission's leader for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suggesting that Brendan Carr was politicizing an independent agency and ...

A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold 1 million copies worldwide two months after its release.

When the funding for Shannon Johnson's job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done.

Consumer prices rose at a lower-than-expected rate for the year leading to November, the Department of Labor said Thursday in its first major inflation report since the government shutdown.

A federal appeals court has overturned the gun conviction of a man who had failed to pay child support, saying that sort of crime shouldn't have cost him his gun rights for the rest of his life.