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Toni Morrison, the iconic American author, professor, Nobel Laureate, and Pulitzer Prize winner, died Tuesday. She was 88 years old. The groundbreaking novelist was best known for her masterpiece "Beloved" as well as "The Bluest Eye" and "'Song of Solomon,…

In 2011 he became the best-known face of the birther movement, promoting the notion that Barack Obama was born outside the United States and thus an illegitimate president. Trump recognized an opportunity to connect with the electorate over an issue many cons…

The trailblazing author Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, died Monday night at the age of 88, her publisher, Knopf, confirmed in a tweet Tuesday. Morrison was best known for her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “…

Video footage shows just how close Connor Betts, who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday came to entering a busy bar before being shot and killed by police. Betts, a 24-year-old from Bellbrook, Ohio, killed nine people and injured 26 others outsid…

More evidence of this comes from polls suggesting that demographics do a better job than ideology of predicting vote choice. Self-reported ideology is an inexact measure. But Mr. Biden, for instance, has a far larger lead among black voters in most national s…

Cesar Sayoc was sentenced to 20 years in prison for mailing 16 inoperative pipe bombs to public figures seen as critical of President Trump in 2018. Broward County Sheriff's Office via AP Cesar Sayoc, the Florida bodybuilder and nightclub bouncer who mailed…

Image copyrightBroward County Sheriff's OfficeImage caption Cesar Sayoc admitted posting the crude devices to prominent Democrats and members of the media A Trump supporter who admitted sending mail bombs to critics of the US president has been jailed for …

Candice Keller Ohio House of Representatives In a now-deleted Facebook post, Republican State Rep. Candice Keller of Ohio blamed two mass shootings that occurred over the past weekend on a variety of things as varied as same-sex marriage and marijua…

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's suggestion in the wake of two mass shootings that immigration measures should be tied to gun control legislation is an "absolute freaking joke," Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said Monday. "That's a joke. That's an absolute freak…

Since its inception in 2015, the camp has exploded from just 32 students to hundreds. The league has grown from a handful of schools to nearly 50, all of them public schools in Washington and nearby Prince Georges County, Md. About 30 cities, including Balti…