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Senate Democrats on the finance committee called for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign as he began testifying before the committee and faced...

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Two West Virginia national guard members shot on Wednesday near the White House in Washington are in critical condition. The incident happened near the Farragut...

Representatives for victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein condemned the US Department of Justice on Friday for only partially releasing investigative documents while at...

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A coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s demand that their states turn over personal data of...

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