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Americans’ credit card debt levels have just notched a new, but undesirable, milestone: For the first time ever, they’ve surpassed $1 trillion, according to data released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Prosecutors say that 18-year-old William Innes, who was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 68-year-old Annette Pershal, sent the text to a group that includes his co-defendant, 19-year-old Ryan Hopkins, reported KNSD-TV.

In an executive order expected to be released Wednesday, American companies will be subject to unprecedented new federal oversight that will scrutinize – and potentially prevent – some of their investments in China’s tech industry. The goal is to ensure that U.S. cash does not support China’s military modernization and...

Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.

The Virginia Department of Corrections has refused to release records of complaints by inmates at a southwest Virginia prison that's under scrutiny in the 2022 death of an inmate.

A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election, Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated at a campaign event in the capital Wednesday as a deadly escalation of violence and crime grips the South American country.

For centuries, Lahaina has been a significant economic, political and cultural center for Native Hawaiian communities.

A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a criminal conspiracy....

A baby boy died in Houston on Tuesday after being left in a car amid a dangerous and unrelenting heat wave, police said.

BREAKING NEWS: Robertson, the renowned guitarist and primary songwriter of The Band, died surrounded by his family....

Prosecutors and defense lawyers say Haley’s story is typical; the vast majority of illicit fentanyl — close to 90% — is seized at official border crossings. Immigration authorities say nearly all of that is smuggled by people who are legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half by U.S. citizens like Haley....

The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, according to a newly unsealed court filing.

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Police in Montgomery issued four arrest warrants for individuals involved in a massive brawl between white boaters and a Black dock employee at Riverfront Park.

Australia is gripped by the mysterious deaths of three people in a suspected poisoning case that reads like a fictional thriller....

Voters in Ohio went to the polls to decide whether to approve a measure known as Issue 1​ that would raise the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot. In the ultimate irony, the vote against changing the amendment process exceeded the 60% supermajority that the special election was seeking to require in the first...

CHICAGO - A Cook County judge ordered a man accused of gunning down a 9-year-old girl last weekend in Portage Park to be held without bail.

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