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In her “Ingraham Angle” monologue on Friday, host Laura Ingraham described how President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party are proverbially circling the wagons around their own, as crises and distrust mount.

One of the two Colorado STEM school shooters was sentenced to mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday.

“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., over the politically charged “tax the rich” dress she wore at the Met Gala.

Vietnam has approved Cuba's Abdala vaccine for use against the coronavirus, the government said on Saturday, as the Southeast Asian country battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic.

A politically weakened President Joe Biden is looking to spark a turnaround with a renewed focus on his domestic agenda after a month marred by a spike in Covid-19 cases and a messy withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Southern California on Friday evening, according to the US Geological Survey.

A North Carolina state court panel on Friday blocked a voter identification law, citing discrimination against Black voters.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has pulled off an incredible feat of engineering that's been claimed as a world first. It's built new airplane gates at a remote location then hauled the huge structures across the tarmac to their new home.

Fox News host Sean Hannity opened his show "Hannity" on Friday slamming President Biden for going on vacation as crises multiply in the United States.

In a statement Friday night, an attorney for the family of Brian Laundrie, the man whose fiancée mysteriously disappeared last month, said his client's whereabouts "are currently unknown." Gabby Petito went missing while the couple was on a cross-country trip last month.

Two children of California Gov. Gavin Newsom have tested positive for the coronavirus and will be quarantined, the governor’s office said Friday, according to reports.

Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that it has shut down the Del Rio port of entry in response to the enormous migrant surge that has overwhelmed officials in the area. Fox News has learned that border checkpoints in the area have also been closed.

American and Australian officials have been in highly secret talks for months over a plan to share technology for nuclear-powered submarines, a process that was hatched more than a year ago and accelerated after President Biden took office in January.

Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has died at 84, the presidency said on Friday, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army.

Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is facing a list of Republican challengers in his re-election bid despite receiving the coveted endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

FDA vaccine advisers declined Friday to recommend the agency approve booster doses for everyone who got vaccinated six months ago or longer.

United Nations –  The Biden administration worries that this year's U.N. General Assembly could become a COVID-19 "superspreader event" as world leaders descend on New York City without necessarily abiding by local vaccine requirements. On Friday, President Biden's U.N. Ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told CBS News at a press conference, "We are concerned about the U.N. event being a superspreader event, and that we need to take all measures to ensure that it does not become a superspreader event." 

The political action committee CatholicVote is attempting to reach Virginia voters through data that identifies their respective parishes – reflecting how salient the faith has become in American politics under President Biden.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will unveil plans Monday to restore full benefits for LGBT service members who left the military with a classification other than honorable discharge due to their sexual orientation, according to a report.

Officials in several states are voicing concern over shortages of monoclonal antibody drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients.

LGBTQ people in Afghanistan who spoke to CNN say they need help to escape Taliban fighters before they are discovered and forced to face the new regime's brutal laws.

Antony Blinken has deleted a tweet which seemingly criticized the Chinese government and showed support from the United States for the people of Hong Kong.

A Los Angeles jury found Robert Durst, the notorious subject of the HBO series "The Jinx," guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of his best friend, Susan Berman, more than 20 years ago.

Mr. Durst, the onetime heir to a Manhattan real estate empire, was convicted of killing a close confidante in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2000.

U.S. Border Patrol failed to conduct "regular and frequent" welfare checks on a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy who died in the agency's custody in 2019, and at least one agent reported checks that never happened, an internal government probe found.

A woman accused of berating and assaulting a Navy sailor in uniform at a Connecticut pizza shop has been arrested, authorities said Friday.

A man, armed with a machete and a knife and expressing White supremacist views, was arrested near the Democratic National Committee's headquarters on Monday as Washington awaits a rally of diehard Trump supporters set for Saturday. The adornments on his truck flashed old-fashioned signs of hate, including a swastika -- an old-fashioned symbol in an era when right-wing extremists are more likely to rally behind internet memes. Whether old or new, these symbols have one thing in common: They are meant to terrorize.

A Los Angeles jury convicted Robert Durst on Friday of murdering his best friend 20 years ago in a case that took on new life after the New York real estate heir participated in a documentary that connected him to the slaying linked to his wife's 1982 disappearance.

Multiple big cats at the Smithsonian National Zoo have showed symptoms of COVID-19 and have presumptively tested positive for the virus, officials said in a statement Friday. Final test results are expected in upcoming days. 

Del Rio, Texas — More than 12,000 migrants — mostly Haitians — have crossed the Texas border and are waiting at a makeshift camp under the Del Rio International Bridge to be processed by Border Patrol.

The 10-feet-wide home sold for $1.25 million, according to Zillow.

Local and federal authorities are looking for 22-year-old Gabby Petito, who was reported missing by her family over the weekend after she had been traveling with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie.

The Black Girls Dive Foundation provides free scuba diving lessons.

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Utah investigators have determined that there is no connection between the horrific double murder of a newlywed couple found dead just outside Moab and the missing person case of Gabby Petito, who passed through the city with the fiancé who drove back to Florida without her.

Law enforcement leaders voiced a unified message of preparedness on Friday.

Taking up a dangerous practice too common in America, an all-White school board in York, Pa. voted unanimously to ban several educational resources that fall into the category of "anti-racism," writes Jay Parini. "Schools are precisely the place where politics and identity are shaped, and because of this, students need the widest array of materials to learn from, including those that offend censorious parents on the left as well as the right," he writes.

Gabby Petito’s father was involved in a “public service” incident at fiancé Brian Laundrie’s home on Sept. 10, nine days after he returned to Florida without her from a cross-country road trip and a day before she was reported missing by her mother, according to heavily redacted police reports.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump is said to have asked outgoing-President Barack Obama in 2017 what he thought his biggest mistake was as they traveled from the White House to the Capitol building, according to a new book."Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa gives a political insight into the months before and after the 2020 election, including the COVID pandemic, the Jan. 6 riot, and the 2020 campaign.

Crews are working to protect California's famed groves of giant sequoias, as multiple fires continue to burn unabated.

Frustration on Capitol Hill with the State Department continues to mount, as Americans and Afghan allies remain stranded in Afghanistan more than two weeks after the U.S. completed its withdrawal from the country.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is ordering the immediate release of 191 inmates who are locked up on Rikers Island for what she called “technical” violations of their parole from state prison.

Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said the vehicle was struck "in the earnest belief" that the targeted vehicle posed an imminent threat.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday urged President Biden to deploy the National Guard in response to the Haitian migrant surge at Del Rio, Texas which has overwhelmed the small town -- with officials describing the situation as “out of control.”

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced her plans Friday to return the Bureau of Land Management national headquarters to Washington, DC, after it had been relocated under the Trump administration.

Without George Washington's military leadership in winning the Revolutionary War and his political leadership in forming our republic, there would be no U.S. Constitution – or United States of America at all.

"Patriots stormed the White House," Kenneth Kelly wrote in a Jan. 6 text. "Tree of liberty was watered today!”

House and Senate Republicans are doubling down on their commitment to investigate the decisions leading to Biden's "disastrous" Afghanistan withdrawal, but Democrats are shying away from publicly blaming President Biden and his administration.

France has recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in response to a pact signed by the two countries along with the United Kingdom that they referred to as a stab in the back.

Surfer Doyle Nielsen had been catching waves at Ponce Inlet, on the east coast of Florida, for about 40 minutes when a shark slammed into him and bit his arm.