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In the wake of the former Virginia governor’s failed retrial bid, attorneys for Robert McDonnell announced their plan to appeal his corruption charges before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pierre Nkurunziza has been sworn in as Burundi’s president for a controversial third term in power, the presidency has said, following last month’s disputed elections boycotted by the opposition.

The fatal police shooting of the unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. has prompted calls for more officers to wear so-called “body cameras”, simple, lapel-mounted gadgets that record the interactions between the public and law enforcement.

Former President Jimmy Carter is expected to publicly talk for the first time at 10 a.m. Thursday about his cancer diagnosis. “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body”, Carter said in a statement released last week.

Weeks after a patrol officer was charged in the murder of an unarmed black motorist and despite calls for the disbandment of the entire department, University of Cincinnati police are back on the beat.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s stalwart front may have suffered a few cracks during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, after a Fox News journalist pressed her about her allegedly wiped email server and she retorted, in obvious discomfort: “What, like...

Lawmakers are working on a $1.2 billion plan that could include a boost in fuel taxes and vehicles fees along with shifting money from other spending priorities.

Three people were killed and four injured in a drive-by shooting near a Boys and Girls Club in western New York on Wednesday.

Senate Education Committee Chairman Conrad Appel, R-Metairie, said the review is a chance to ensure rigorous classroom standards so that Louisiana can emerge from the “bottom of all those socioeconomic measures”.

Rob Portman and three other GOP swing-state senators who are up for re-election in 2016. Planned Parenthood supporters now plan their own rally at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in front of the James M. Hanley Federal Building in Syracuse.

“We are both losers”.

The toxic waste from the Gold King Mine in Southern Colorado, which sparked this disaster, flowed through the Animas into the San Juan last week and is making its way past the Navajo Nation. “We are optimistic that you will pursue legislation to begin rectifying what the...

In the poll of North Carolina voters released Wednesday morning, 9 percent of them are throwing their support behind (or under?) Deez Nuts.

WRCB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1HTFHq2) that 21-year-old David Karnauch of Chattanooga was arrested Sunday by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant from the New York Police Department.

Large areas of both the Animas and the San Juan rivers suffered from the spill. That’s 24 hours farmers were irrigating with tainted water, cities were pumping dirty water for municipal uses, and kayakers and anglers were literally standing or floating in the toxic brew.