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The device was detonated as part of a mission to better understand the origins of planets.

In a speech before the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, Biden assured the audience that he had permission to embrace a union worker and put his arm around a child onstage.

Plans to use the 2020 census to ask about U.S. citizenship status suffered another major blow. A ruling in Maryland joins earlier ones in New York and California blocking the citizenship question.

Claire Denis’ sci-fi thriller is like no outer space movie you’ve seen; it opens with an astronaut caring for a baby in space — then flashes back to reveal the strange story behind their journey.

Eric Holder, a 29-year-old man from Los Angeles, pled not guilty on Thursday to the killing of rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle on March 31.

The president says he will nominate Carranza, who served as deputy administrator for the SBA under President George W. Bush, to replace Linda McMahon.

Several top Democrats sent a stern letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asking for evidence that it’s policing the federal student loan industry.

Brie Larson stars opposite Samuel L. Jackson, her Captain Marvel compatriot, in the oddball magical-realism comedy Unicorn Store on Netflix.

“I escaped from the burning house right after I brought out my dog. I couldn’t bring anything else with me,” one man says of the rush to flee the fire.

Authorities said the married couple took their children and fled their home following allegations of neglect, then drove off a cliff along Highway 1 in Mendocino County.

Employers added 196,000 jobs in March, bouncing back from February’s weak growth, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate was unchanged at nearly 50-year lows.

Lil Nas X’s viral hit “Old Town Road” was pulled from Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs Chart, raising questions over discrimination in the country music industry.

Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain died 25 years ago Friday. The band’s former manager Danny Goldberg discusses his memories of Cobain and his new book, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain.

The Texas GOP senator says donors should be able to cover his campaign loans after an election. Anti-corruption advocates warn against a loophole for wealthy contributors to influence new lawmakers.

As recent arrivals to the U.S. are released from detention with health problems ranging from diarrhea to gaping wounds, doctors who are trying to help, with little federal support, feel the strain.

Washington state’s attorney general said Motel 6 shared information on about 80,000 guests in the state and that guests faced questioning from ICE, detainment and deportation as a result.

Attorney General Mike Hunter said paring back the suit against firms at the center of the national epidemic will speed up any payouts and help communities recover.

A growing number of organizations are leading Americans in discussions about sensitive political issues. By at least one count, there are more than 200 of these groups nationwide.

In the study by Japanese researchers, cats reacted to their own name. Researchers say it’s the first evidence showing cats can understand spoken words.

“We want to reduce the hate and contention so common today,” said LDS President Dallin Oaks. Church doctrine will consider same-sex marriage “a serious transgression” but not apostasy.

History’s most enduring multination military alliance turned 70 Thursday, but it was a milestone more notable for festering disputes than celebrations of harmony.

Virginia lawmakers wrapped up the final details of the legislative session this week, with three leaders who have drawn criticism and controversy still at the helm.

President Trump is pushing Mexico to stem the flow of migrants and drugs into the United States. After a year, he said, he will consider tariffs on cars or a border shutdown.

On a track from the forthcoming Ventura, Anderson .Paak weathers the stormy trials of a romance that’s long departed from honeymoon avenue.

Under the new law, polling places cannot be changed 60 days before an election, and it will take longer for people who choose not to vote to be removed from the state’s voter registration list.

“We would like to clarify this was not a sewage leak,” the House of Commons Press Office said, after water poured into the chamber Thursday.

The Democrat announced his decision on ABC’s The View, saying he is running to be a champion for manufacturing in a country that has been fractured by trade and outsourcing.

The suit, filed on behalf of six states and the District of Columbia, says the weakened federal nutrition standards for school meals are putting kids at greater risk of health problems linked to diet.

If you happily order your contact lenses online, why not get drugs for migraines or erectile dysfunction that way, too? Be careful, a medical student warns. Your “simple” self-diagnosis may be wrong.

The European Union Parliament’s visa exemption plan will put the U.K. in the same category as more than 60 other countries — including the U.S.

Lessons in noodle-making is one of the ways that China hopes to eliminate rural poverty by 2020.

The bill that passed on Thursday is intended to hold companies responsible for videos and audio such as the livestream of two mosque shootings in New Zealand.

A number of government agencies work closely with the industries they are charged with regulating. The issue surfaced after Boeing’s 737 Max planes had to be grounded by the FAA.