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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…

General Magic has a quiet fame in Silicon Valley: Forbes calls it "the most important dead company in Silicon Valley" and New York Magazine says it "invented the iPhone — two decades too early." The startup, then working on a precursor to the smartphone with …

Washington (CNN)Two regional Federal Reserve presidents publicly dissented Friday over this week's interest rate cuts, issuing separate statements arguing that economic conditions didn't warrant easing. "I do not see a clear and compelling case for addition…