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The president’s reelection campaign is selling reusable and recycled straws in its 2020 online store, because, it says, “Liberal paper straws don’t work.”

The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries — and that Big Sugar works to make sure soda and candy aren’t targeted as cavity culprits.

Spy world veteran Shelby Pierson will attempt to centralize election security efforts across the intelligence community with soon-to-be-designated agency leads.

Ship-tracking data show the U.K. tanker Stena Impero was traveling to Saudi Arabia when it veered toward Iran’s coast. British media report the government warns shipping to stay out of the area.

Harold Martin committed the massive theft of government documents over decades, storing files in his car and Maryland home. “My methods were wrong, illegal and highly questionable,” Martin said.

The aid group Mercy Corps believes that the new Libra currency could help funnel aid to the poor. But critics wonder why the charity has teamed up with a controversial company.

More than 3,100 are moving out of the Bureau of Prisons system on Friday and the Justice Department is making other changes to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.

Scientists at four leading universities have seen their soybean experiments injured by a stealthy vandal: drifting fumes from a weedkiller called dicamba, now popular among farmers.

President Trump says the U.S. Navy ship shot an Iranian drone down. That statement conflicts with those of Pentagon officials who say the Boxer used electronic jamming to take it down.

President Trump has used white grievance to fuel his candidacy since he first came onto the political scene. So what he’s doing now with four congresswomen of color is hardly a surprise.

Tensions have beset the U.S.-Pakistan relationship for years. The planned July 22 meeting between President Trump and Imran Khan comes as the U.S. tries to finalize Afghanistan peace negotiations.

The musical superstar continues to challenge herself while elevating global artists for an album inspired by the new remake of The Lion King, in theaters now.

Iran would commit to permanent nuclear inspections in exchange for a permanent lifting of U.S. imposed-sanctions, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR.

San Diego Comic-Con kicked off Thursday, with more than 130,000 attendees expected. Big draws of the day were Lin-Manuel Miranda and Arnold Schwarzenegger — and a surprise appearance from Tom Cruise.

Twenty five years after he scored the original The Lion King, which won an Oscar, Hans Zimmer returns to Pride Rock to revisit the classic musical themes for a re-imagined tale.

Greg Force was just a boy when his father, the director of a NASA tracking station in Guam, called home with an important mission for him: to help the crew of Apollo 11 return safely to Earth.

When you have a serious health problem that calls for surgery, the last thing you need is the stress of navigating the health care system to find a skilled surgeon. We have tips to make it easier.

“We are going to continue to be a nightmare to this president,” she said into a megaphone, “because his policies are a nightmare to us. We are not deterred, we are not frightened, we are ready.”

More than a year after filing for bankruptcy, the chain is relaunching in Texas and New Jersey. Its new stores will feature spaces for toy demonstrations and events.

The debates will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. ET on July 30 and 31 in Detroit. Moderators will be CNN’s Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper.

It is bringing dangerous, record-breaking temperatures to the Central and Eastern states.

Customs and Border Protection officials are denying an NPR report that a Border Patrol agent asked the girl to choose which of her parents would be sent back to Mexico.

The president offered the Washington attorney the job, and he accepted. He’s 55 and a partner at a firm where he handles labor and employment cases.

“Although the new federal regulation allows us to apply that all 2,000 miles along the Southwest border, we’re not going to do that,” Mark Morgan told NPR.

Provisional overdose data for 2018 show a note of hope in an overall bleak picture. But in some states, the numbers actually got worse. What explains the disparities?

Some of the people struggling the most to pay back their debt are the millions of students who took out student loans but never finished a degree.

The orange-fronted parakeet, known locally as the kākāriki karaka, is in the midst of a prolonged mating season due to a beech seed boon. So far, more than 150 chicks have been born in the baby boom.

Researchers are testing exercise in people at high risk for Alzheimer’s. The goal of a federally funded study is to learn whether aerobic physical activity can protect the brain.

President Trump says that after the drone closed to within approximately 1,000 yards of the U.S. warship and ignored calls to stand down, it was “immediately destroyed.”

In addition to ordering Shkreli to stay in prison, a federal appeals court also affirmed that he must forfeit more than $7.3 million and pay restitution of $388,336.

Official records describe Trump’s direct involvement with negotiations that led to a $130,000 payment to an adult film star to buy her silence about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump.