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After years of being beaten up, this teen decided to take justice into his own hands. A school district in Oregon showed him a better way to solve his problems.

The ruling from Judge Amy Berman Jackson means the prosecutors led by Robert Mueller are no longer bound by their plea deal with Manafort, onetime chairman of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

There have been lots of stories about the unique animal in central Kenya’s Laikipia County. Now cameras have captured multiple high-quality photos and video.

Families learn to be skeptical about vaccines in communities where incomplete vaccination is the norm. A researcher into the phenomenon found that people are ready to listen, if they’re heard, too.

She wants to make it help 50 million women around the world get jobs and start their own businesses. Critics are waiting for more details.

The Guards were killed in a restive region bordering Pakistan. Without providing evidence, Iran blamed the U.S. for the attack.

In a surprise announcement, Long says it is time to go home to his family. An internal government watchdog said he had improperly used government vehicles to travel to his home in North Carolina.

The Lufthansa passenger paid around $741 to fly business class from Oslo to Seattle and back. But on his return trip, he got off in Germany — and the airline wants him to pay more than $2,000.

The agency says Gene Levoff used prior knowledge of earnings to buy and sell millions of dollars in Apple stock, even as he was responsible for overseeing compliance with rules on insider trading.

NASA’s six-wheeled rover landed on the red planet in January 2004 for what was billed as a 90-day mission. The plucky robot was still going until a dust storm on Mars last summer killed it.

Sound travels differently through open fields than the woods. When deer eat up bushes, small trees and other forest plants, it affects the transmission of bird calls and other natural sounds.

The protest group Led By Donkeys wants to remind citizens of what it considers to be misleading pledges by pro-Brexit leaders, as political chaos continues ahead of the March 29 exit date.

The LiveWire, Harley’s first electric bike, was first announced more than four years ago. It’s finally hitting the streets this summer — for a hefty price. But will Harley fans be along for the ride?

Police said they found an imitation gun at the scene of the reported armed robbery. The 19-year-veteran of the force was not supposed to report to work on the day he died.

With the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, scientists are exploring nature to find new disease-fighting compounds. They’re finding them in surprising new places: the microbiomes of insects.

A new study suggests living in a high-crime area, or simply passing through one on the way to school, can lead to more absences.

The question of friendly fire had plagued law enforcement since the June 2016 shooting left 49 dead during Latin Night at the predominantly gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

Monica Witt has been indicted after allegedly providing classified Pentagon information to Tehran. She defected years six ago, the Justice Department says.

Federal deficits are now expected to average $1.2 trillion, or 4.4 percent of gross domestic product — far higher than the average over the past 50 years.

A temporary shelter has been contracted south of Miami to house more than 2,000 migrant children. It is the nation’s only corporate, for-profit migrant youth shelter.

Two top Virginia lawmakers have admitted to wearing blackface in the 1980s. But blackface didn’t stop then.

The center says government officials have already cut down trees on its private property in anticipation of a border wall. The planned wall would split its property in two.

The Federal Trade Commission says Americans who fell for online romance scams reported losing a median $2,600 each — far more than other types of scams.

It’s the 15th time a wire fox terrier has won the top prize. “As good as it gets,” the best in show judge said.

The state’s large share of African-American Democratic voters and a well-timed spot on the 2020 primary calendar make it a critical state for presidential candidates.

In his first State of the State speech Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom wasted no time in criticizing what he called President Trump’s “fear-mongering” over the “so-called ‘border emergency.'”

An app that allows men to track the whereabouts of their wives and daughters is available in the Apple and Google app stores in Saudi Arabia. The firms are getting blowback for carrying the app.

By Tuesday, the tiger was headed to a sanctuary outside the city, while officials have launched a criminal probe in search of its owner.

President Trump and other Republicans are pressuring the Tennessee Valley Authority not to close a coal plant in Kentucky. A major Trump backer supplies the plant with most of its coal.

They had initially thought the object four billion miles from Earth looked like a snowman. The New Horizons spacecraft flew by it on New Year’s Day and new images give scientists a clearer picture.

Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a Democrat, is on leave at his full-time employer, an international law firm, as it pursues an investigation into the sexual assault allegations against him.