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Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Washington on Tuesday

Food and beverage manufacturer Kraft Heinz says it's no longer serving the Lunchables meals it created for U.S. schools

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he'll appoint John Ratcliffe to serve as CIA director in his new administration

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year

Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion ban told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own health in danger

Authorities say two monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research

A judge has sentenced a woman to 50 years in prison for forcing three of her children to live with the decomposing body of their dead 8-year-old brother for more than a year in a soiled, roach-infested Houston-area apartment

Donald Trump’s election win is clouding the outlook for mortgage rates even before he gets back to the White House

After spending four months in federal prison for snubbing a congressional subpoena, conservative strategist Steve Bannon is now preparing for a financial conspiracy trial

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison