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Senate Republicans on Tuesday reelected Sen. John Thune as their top leader after rejecting an effort to delay the leadership vote to digest the party's sweeping election losses and chart a path forward.

Four grizzly bears captured in western Canada were responsible for killing a mother and her adult daughter this month in what investigators believe was a rare predatory attack, wildlife officials said Tuesday.

A 24-carat fancy intense pink diamond ring sold Tuesday at auction for more than $14.6 million in the middle of the expected range, Christie's said.

A senior U.S. Army soldier is in British custody after authorities there accused him of passing classified information to Russia.

The federal judge who blocked President Trump's attempt to discount up to 20,000 California ballots the feds said were mailed to noncitizens took a parting shot Tuesday as he closed out the case.

President Donald Trump has nominated a Justice Department official to an open seat on a key civil rights agency, signaling his administration's determination to forge ahead with efforts to dismantle diversity policies it claims discriminate against ...

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that residents and businesses in Portland, Oregon, had no constitutional right to avoid exposure to chemical irritants such as tear gas deployed by federal officers protecting ICE's facility in the city.

Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle days after his arrest on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material, authorities said.

A former police detective was convicted Tuesday of murdering a pregnant Massachusetts woman, Sandra Birchmore, to keep her from revealing that he had sexually abused her when she was 15.

Rep.-elect LaKesha Womack, a community organizer who stunned her own Democratic Party by defeating a well-known North Carolina Republican on her shoestring $56,000 campaign budget, said she's excited to arrive in Washington and show what's possible.