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U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 88, is the highest-ranking churchman to be laicized.

The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent, officials announced Friday.

President Donald Trump's inaugural committee received a sweeping request for financial records this week from prosecutors in New Jersey.

A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago on Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said.

On Friday, Trump tried to underscore the urgency of what he calls a national security crisis, while at the same time downplaying the gravity of his response.

Bypassing Congress, Trump said he will use executive action to siphon billions of dollars from federal military construction and counterdrug efforts for the wall.

President Trump promised that his tax changes, passed in 2017, would give most Americans a tax cut. However, some taxpayers are discovering an unpleasant surprise.

The Senate voted 54-45 on Thursday to confirm William Barr as attorney general, returning him to a post he first occupied in the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

Aleta Dignard-Fung says she battled her ex-boyfriend for control of what music would play on her Spotify account.

With Trump's halfhearted signature widely expected but not yet guaranteed, the Democratic-controlled House was poised to pass the sweeping measure Thursday evening.

Distrust of vaccines may be almost as contagious as measles, according to medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo.

Instead of safeguarding borrowers' interests, the report says, FSA's inconsistent oversight allowed these companies, known as loan servicers, to potentially hurt borrowers.

Amazon will no longer build new headquarters in New York City, the company announced on Thursday, after weeks of opposition and protests there.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Trump will declare a national emergency in order to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz appeared in Philadelphia Wednesday night. He did not commit to an independent presidential run, but is still considering it.