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The scathing House Ethics Committee report on embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., alleges he was a cash-strapped candidate who used campaign contributions to live a life of luxury — including spending donors’ money on trips to casinos, shopping at high-end retailers and even Botox treatments and OnlyFans payments....

State Sen. LaTonya Johnson wants to overhaul the state’s Amber Alert system after Prince McCree’s death.

23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online::A user on a popular hacker forum had claimed to have made a larger database of users for sale earlier this week. It’s unclear if whoever compiled the list to only include Ashkenazi heritage is the same person or group who initially made it for sale.

A public library system in Alabama flagged a children’s picture book as potentially “sexually explicit” because the author’s last name is “Gay.”...

A 13-foot alligator was spotted with human remains in its mouth in a canal in unincorporated Largo, Florida....

Following the death of the purveyor of laid-back, beachside rock, his fans, known as Parrotheads, paid tribute by lifting their glasses at locations of his Margaritaville empire.

The man identified as “Trump Employee 4” had been represented by Stanley Woodward, who was being paid by the former president’s Save America PAC.

No injuries were reported when the MiG-23, flying at Thunder Over Michigan, plummeted and hit vehicles in a nearby apartment complex parking lot, authorities said.

Mayor Jane Castor, a former police chief, recognized the package floating in the Atlantic as a bundle of cocaine, a city spokesperson said.

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GENEVA — The remains of a German mountain climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn mountain in 1986 have been recovered, as melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies and objects thought to be long-lost....

James Lee Ramsey, 27, allegedly kicked the woman to the ground in San Francisco two years after being charged with a hate crime in an assault on an Oakland Chinatown leader.

The state's top law enforcement official has taken the side of an imprisoned police officer over the DA who prosecuted him.

The man, who has not yet been identified, collapsed outside a restroom at Golden Canyon as temperatures soared to around 121 degrees Fahrenheit, the National Park Service said.

Sonya Massey, 36, died after an early-morning encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office on July 6, authorities said....