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Former national security adviser John Bolton denounced the House’s impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump as ”grossly partisan” and said his testimony would not have changed Trump’s acquittal in the Senate,
Intelligence officials say Russia is interfering with the 2020 election to try to help President Donald Trump get reelected, The New York Times reported.
Some images are so effective in capturing readers' attention, they find their way into more than one story.
A FedEx driver who stopped to help a stranded driver on a North Carolina highway fell 75 feet (23 meters) from a bridge and survived.
Featured on Snopes today: Online fraudsters continue trying to exploit the tragic death of NBA star Kobe Bryant, and a proposed Alabama law calls for all men over 50 to have vasectomies.
Left-leaning critics of U.S. President Donald Trump rejected his claims to overseeing unprecedented economic growth in early 2020. Who was right?
"I didn’t need little Bruce Springsteen," Trump proclaimed at a campaign rally.
The gunman who killed nine people in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau left behind a 24-page rambling screed calling for the “complete extermination” of races he considered inferior.
Sy Sperling, who appeared in ubiquitous ads for Hair Club for Men, died after a lengthy illness.
Fearing that they would become infected, residents of a village intended to host the evacuees put up road blocks, burned tires and clashes with riot police.
The accident occurred during one of the many parades in the week leading up to Mardi Gras.
A piece of horror fiction was a little too believable for some readers.
Lies spread through social media have helped demonize one of the safest and most effective interventions in the history of medicine.”
The action in federal court comes amid Trump's unrelenting defense of his longtime confidant that has led to a mini-revolt inside the Justice Department and allegations the president has interfered in the case.
After the core of a building failed to fall, Dallas jokesters posed for photos showing themselves pretending to prop up the lopsided tower.
Ask any LGBTQ patient about awkward doctor visits and chances are they’ll have a story to tell.
Google is attempting to make sure people know exactly what they're signing up for when they use its online services — though that will still mean reading a lengthy document.
The New Orleans Saints headed to court in a bid to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese amid its sexual abuse crisis.
In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The 9-year-old aspiring astronaut wanted to check out a calculus book, but a librarian threatened to call the police if he didn't leave. McNair was black.
A U.S. judge in Arizona sided Wednesday with migrants who have long-complained about inhumane and unsanitary conditions in some U.S. Border Patrol facilities in the state.
Fraudsters continue to capitalize on the sudden death of Kobe Bryant by publishing misinformation about his family.
The arrest of a Harvard professor fueled conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus outbreak in 2020.
If a prediction is only noticed after an incident occurs, is it really a prediction?
The segment prompted numerous rebuttals condemning the "maliciousness of the attack" on the legacy of the children's TV host.
Rumors that spread in February 2020 about the death of Kobe Bryant's widow were junk news.
The arrest of a Harvard professor fueled conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus outbreak in 2020.
President Donald Trump supposedly sent former President Barack Obama a bill for all the vacations the latter took before leaving office.
Trump supposedly proclaimed that Republicans are the "dumbest group of voters" in a 1998 'People' magazine interview.
Smithfield Foods was sold to a Chinese company in 2013, but China won't be slaughtering and processing hogs raised in the U.S. and shipping them back to America.
