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Kamala Harris secures Democratic nomination in roll call vote, kicking off official race against Trump

<p>Kyle Rittenhouse announced he is not voting for Former President Donald Trump in the November election </p>

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Kyle Rittenhouse flip-flops on Trump support after ‘productive conversations’ with campaign

<p>Johnny James, 40, left, and Kayla Clark, 42, right, were arrested by Washington County Sheriff’s deputies on a charge of child neglect after James allegedly tied his 15-year-old daughter to a tree in his backyard for repeatedly soiling herself</p>

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Father tied his 15-year-old daughter to a tree for three days because ‘she cant be trusted and lies’

<p>The <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-concord-vivek-ramaswamy-new-hampshire-dover-b2570184.html">US Justice Department</a> filed a lawsuit against <a href="/topic/tiktok">TikTok on Friday</a>, claiming the app and its parent company <a href="/topic/bytedance">ByteDance</a> are violating children’s privacy laws</p>

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DoJ sues TikTok for ‘illegally collecting children’s data’

<p>Republican presidential nominee and Donald Trump looks on as he speaks on a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago</p>

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Trump threatened to back out of Black journalists interview over live fact-checking

<p>President Joe Biden, left, and vice president Kamala Harris, right, walking with Ella Milman, center, mother of reporter Evan Gershkovich, at Andrews Air Force Base</p>

Politics

Trump’s new policy ideas confuse Republicans, while Harris pivots to the center

<p>JD Vance’s past comments about abortion restrictions in cases of rape or incest have re-circulated after he was named as Donald Trump’s running mate </p>

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Vance’s comments calling pregnancies from rape and incest ‘inconvenient’ back in spotlight after VP nod

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Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap

<p>A rogue’s gallery of Russian spies, crooks, and at least one assassin were released Thursday in a prisoner swap that saw numerous Americans released from Russian jails</p>

<p>Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe testifies to members of Congress on July 30 about security failures at a Donald Trump rally. </p>

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Harris, Trump and Vance will have Secret Service sniper coverage at rallies after Pennsylvania shooting

How Secret Service tech failures aided Trump rally shooter

<p>Fifteen-year-old Lamar Kemp pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree murder </p>

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Teen admits to shooting dead Michigan Democrat as he was canvassing for votes

<p>A car drives past the Chevron refinery on January 25, 2011 in Richmond, California</p>

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Second-largest oil company ditches California for Texas to avoid increased regulations

<p>Mr Beast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, attending a football match in March 2024</p>

The inside story of Mr. Beast new reality show where contestants vie for $5m prize - and risk death to get it

<p>Mother points out ridiculousness of new library law that bans children from adult section</p>

Mother points out ridiculousness of new library law that bans children from adult section

<p>Misty Dawn Clanton Roberts has been accused of having sex with a juvenile</p>

Crime

Louisiana mayor arrested days after she resigned amid child rape allegations

Paris Olympics 2024

IOC responds to boxing gender test scandal at Paris Olympics

<p>Angela Carini abandons her bout against Imane Khelif</p>

Olympics 2024 LIVE: Sha’Carri Richardson takes the track for the first time in Paris

<p>Simone Biles said she loves her ‘Black job’ in a clear swipe at Donald Trump</p>

Olympics

Simone Biles trolls Trump after making Olympic history: ‘I love my Black job’

<p>Olympics superfan Snoop Dogg given hilarious private tour of the Louvre: ‘Snooping around’</p>

Olympics

Olympics superfan Snoop Dogg given hilarious private tour of the Louvre: ‘Snooping around’

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<p>According to sources, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, is interested in an ambassadorial position should Kamala Harris win the White House in November </p>

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Are the Clintons back? Bill and Hillary’s daughter Chelsea could be angling for a spot in the Harris administration

<p>Police and EMS personnel gather outside of a nail salon in Deer Park, New York, on Friday, June 28, 2024, where a minivan crash through a wall and killed four people</p>

Crime

Driver charged with murder after ‘drinking 18 beers’ and driving 78mph into nail salon killing 4

<p>Stock markets took a hit on Friday after poor job numbers in July that saw just 114,000 workers added in the month. That is down from 180,000 new jobs in June. </p>

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Economic recession fears grow after bleak jobs report and unemployment spike

Justin Timberlake Arrest

Justin Timberlake’s license suspended at DWI hearing as judge slams his lawyer for ‘irresponsible’ comments

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Northern lights forecast for US skies amid powerful ‘cannibal’ solar storm

<p>Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen in new mug shot</p>

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Prosecutors say Delphi murders suspect confessed 60 times. His attorneys insists it was a ‘textbook’ cult killing

<p>Don Lemon (left) and Elon Musk</p>

Elon Musk responds to Don Lemon lawsuit over axed show: ‘He made a series of impressively insane demands’

Race for the White House

2024 election

How Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris’s Black heritage are reviving racist ‘birther’ conspiracy theories

<p>Donald Trump joins a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago</p>

<p>Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill on July 25 as speculation mounts indicating that he is on Kamala Harris’s VP shortlist</p>

2024 Election

Mark Kelly could end up being Kamala Harris’s response to JD Vance

<p>Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, with Vice President Kamala Harris</p>

2024 Election

Women’s group urges Harris not to pick Shapiro for VP over handling of sexual harassment complaint

Meet Tim Walz, the first one to call Republicans ‘weird’

<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has become a favorite among progressives for his mix of midwestern nice and record of accomplishments as governor. </p>

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Meet Tim Walz, the first one to call Republicans ‘weird’

<p>Fox News host Jesse Watters heavily mocked white men who are supporting Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign </p>

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Jesse Watters’ sexist rant over ‘White Dudes for Harris’ baffles his Fox News panel

<p>JD Vance seen in his first TikTok video </p>

2024 election

JD Vance joins TikTok – and bizarrely uses first video to promote hard seltzer

Why calling Trump ‘weird’ is freaking Republicans out

<p>A two pack of stickers of a young Doug Emhoff sells for $6. The merchanside was launched after the picture went viral </p>

2024 election

Kamala Harris campaign launches merch to cash in on viral obsession with young Doug Emhoff: #MeAt20

<p>Megan Thee Stallion</p>

Megan Thee Stallion defends twerking at Kamala Harris rally

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Kyiv targets occupied Crimea with ‘massive’ strike as Turkey launches new warship

<p>A banner that states ‘Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White-Supremacist Zionist’ was hung outside of Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum director’s home. New York leaders have condemned the incident as ‘unacceptable antisemitism’ </p>

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Woman charged with hate crime for vandalizing home of Jewish director of Brooklyn Museum

<p>The Flagship resort in Atlantic City. Atlantic City Police found Carley Elbert, 32, and Kamille Stewart, 29, both shot in the head near the resort on August 1. Elbert died from her wounds, while Stewart was taken to a local hospital for treatment</p>

Crime

Three men arrested after a woman in a swimsuit was found shot dead and left in the rocks along the Atlantic City beach

<p> A clay bust alongside a photo of Peggy Joyce Shelton, a Florida woman who was murdered in a 1972 cold case that was finally solved</p>

Crime

Her body was left in the Florida woods 52 years ago. Police now believe she was the victim of a potential serial killer

<p>Francis Ford Coppola</p>

Extra kissed by Francis Ford Coppola on Megalopolis set speaks out: ‘I was in shock’

New comments come after another of the actors in the video told ‘Deadline’ that Coppola was ‘nothing but professional’

Extra kissed by Francis Ford Coppola on Megalopolis set speaks out: ‘I was in shock’

New comments come after another of the actors in the video told ‘Deadline’ that Coppola was ‘nothing but professional’

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<p>William Richard Orellana, 34, has been missing since July 20 in Riverside, California, after his car crashed into a pole </p>

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A California dad crashed his car in the middle of the night and vanished. Two weeks later, he’s still missing

<p>Addie Carver is crowned Miss Teen USA</p>

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New Miss Teen USA crowned after past winner resigned from controversy-hit organization

Robert Downey Jr is being paid a ridiculous amount for Marvel return

<p>The Department of Justice found that Texas’ youth lockups remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and keeping children isolated in cells for most of the time</p>

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Federal investigators find horrific ‘pattern of abuse’ at juvenile detention centers in Texas

<p>The Department of Justice found that Texas’ youth lockups remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and keeping children isolated in cells for most of the time</p>

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Federal investigators find horrific ‘pattern of abuse’ at juvenile detention centers in Texas

<p>Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez join hands during a protest against the result of the presidential election on July 30, 2024 </p>

Politics

US recognizes Venezuela opposition candidate Edmundo González as presidential election winner – not Maduro

<p>An American Airlines passenger faces federal charges after he assaulted a flight attendant, tried to open the doors and yelled he was “sane” during a flight, authorities say </p>

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Man who shouted ‘I am sane’ as locked himself in plane bathroom is indicted

<p>Jennifer Aniston’s present to ex Brad Pitt on his 40th birthday revealed by Jamie Oliver</p>

Jennifer Aniston’s 40th birthday present to Brad Pitt revealed

<p>Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in October 2018</p>

Crime

Inmate jailed over violent prison killing of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger

<p>Police say the hotel employee broke into multiple guest room and made off with more than $100,000 in cash and valuables </p>

crime

Vegas casino maid stole more than $100,000 from guest rooms and was caught wearing victim’s bracelet

Royal Family

Prince William was ‘furious’ with Donald Trump for his Kate ‘nude sunbathing’ remarks

Crime

Teen accused of fatally attacking neighbor, 62, in her hot tub ‘to see what it was like to stab someone’

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to tour Colombia after declaring Britain ‘too dangerous’

<p>Ella Emhoff was rushed out of a Manhattan Restaurant by Secret Service after an irate man damaged the back of security vehicles parked outside </p>

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Ella Emhoff rushed out of restaurant after Secret Service car damaged

<p>Richard Colvin, 60, the owner of the St Johns Review newspaper in North Portland, has been arrested and charged after he allegedly called a church receptionist in Mobile, Alabama, and threatened to kidnap, imprison, and rape her</p>

crime

Owner of small-town newspaper accused of threatening to rape elderly church receptionist

<p>The three men, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who plotted the 9/11 attacks are expected to plead guilty in exchange for life sentences next week</p>

Politics

Republicans blast Biden administration’s ‘plea deal with terrorists’

9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed agrees to plea deal

<p>Robert Roberson has spent more than twenty years behind bars after being sentenced to death for murdering his two-year-old daughter </p>

Crime

Cop helped send a man to death row for killing his child. Now he’s fighting for his life

Ballerina Farm influencer Hannah Neeleman blasts ‘trad wife’ article as ‘attack on my family’

<p>NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" on July 18, 2024</p>

NASA might have found evidence of past life on Mars

11 movies actors regret, from The Sound of Music to Titanic

<p>House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rips up pages of the State of the Union speech after then-President Donald Trump finishes his State of the Union speech in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020 </p>

Politics

Doctors voiced concerns to ex-Speaker that Trump’s mental health ‘was in decline,’ new book reveals

<p>A pair of seagulls are stuck in the grill of a Jeep that a man drove through a flock of the birds on a Washington beach, leaving onlookers shocked by the ‘massacre'</p>

Crime

Jeep driver plows into 25 seagulls on Washington beach in front of horrified onlookers

<p>An ancient Egyptian mummy known as the Screaming Woman </p>

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Mystery of the Egyptian Screaming Woman mummy ‘who died wailing in pain 3,000 years ago’

<p>A Loggerhead Sea Turtle makes it way to the Atlantic Ocean in Juno Beach, Florida. Authorities in the state are working to stop sea turtles from getting from the beach to a nearby road in Flagler County</p>

News

Florida scrambles for solutions to contain ‘wayward’ sea turtles from getting on to commuter road

<p>Alison Chao was reported missing in July, but was found one week later outside a news station </p>

Crime

A missing teenage girl showed up outside a TV station to tell her story. Now her father has been arrested

<p>Hunter Biden is expected to go to trial in September for allegedly evading taxes, failing to file his tax form and paying on time </p>

Politics

Everything we know as Hunter Biden returns to a criminal trial - this time for tax evasion

Lifestyle

<p>Team USA’s Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky reveals the swim habit she doesn’t follow </p>

Olympics

Team USA’s Katie Ledecky reveals the swim habit she doesn’t follow

The female swimmer won her 13th Olympic medal overall on August 1

Halle Berry says ex Olivier Martinez is delaying co-parenting therapy

<p>Simone Biles earned her sixth gold medal after winning the women’s all-around final at the Paris Olympics </p>

Olympics

Simone Biles celebrates her gold medal with a diamond goat necklace

Olympics

Wait, are those footie pajamas on the US men’s gymnastics team?

<p>Yoshiaki Oiwa interacts with horse MGH Grafton Street of Team Japan at the 2024 Paris Olympics</p>

Olympics

Olympic equestrian takes selfie with horse after bronze medal win

Love Island USA’s Nicole breaks silence amid Kendall split rumors

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