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LOS ANGELES — Joe Don Baker, the leading man turned character actor who broke out playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 movie “Walking Tall,” has died, his family announced online.

The Texas-born tough guy died ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Thursday to a lawyer for President Donald Trump who was appealing rulings that blocked his plan to deny citizenship to newborns whose parents were in this country ...Read more

CHICAGO — Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour” opens in Chicago this week, with shows Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights.

At the nearly three-hours concert at Soldier Field, 1410 S. ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The judge in the quadruple homicide case involving four University of Idaho students opened the door Thursday to appointing a special prosecutor to investigate potential violations of the court’s ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill that will stop local governments from putting fluoride in water.

The bill DeSantis signed doesn’t specifically mention fluoride. Instead, it ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — This summer’s busy music schedule at the Shore is without any oversize Atlantic City beach concerts for the second year running. But there’s plenty of action in casino showrooms, Cape May concert ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday probed the Trump administration’s pursuit to end birthright citizenship by asking justices to limit the reach of lower court judicial injunctions.

The arguments in Donald J. ...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs began grilling his longtime former partner, Casandra Ventura, on Thursday after the jury heard two days of devastating testimony from the R&B singer known as “Cassie” ...Read more

Chris Brown was arrested Thursday in Manchester, England, in connection with an alleged bottle-throwing incident two years prior.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ that the 36-year-old controversial singer — who has a ...Read more

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University as a cheap, water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, “one of the world’s most valuable documents,” a British researcher said Thursday.

The Magna Carta (Latin ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Rep. Sam Graves has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to help investigate cancer cases at a Missouri elementary school where, in recent years, multiple teachers have faced cancer ...Read more

UnitedHealth Group stock was sliding again Thursday as the market took in a report in the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal fraud investigation of Medicare billing practices, ...Read more

The Supreme Court Thursday heard arguments on President Donald Trump’s landmark effort to end birthright citizenship, which has been considered settled law for more than 150 years after being enshrined in the ...Read more

Federal regulators fined Target nearly $30,000 after a workplace death in Pennsylvania, less than a year after the Minneapolis-based retailer received a much higher fine for an employee death in Massachusetts.

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The Chicago developer that was negotiating to buy the northern swath of the stalled Lincoln Yards megadevelopment site is now in talks to purchase the entire 53-acre tract, according to sources familiar with the deal.

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TAMPA, Fla. — The Church of Scientology has withdrawn its request to purchase a downtown Clearwater strip of public land on the eve of a vote by the City Council. The item was removed from Thursday’s agenda.

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NEW YORK — Cassie Ventura, who dated Sean “Diddy” Combs for over a decade until 2018, appeared in court as the star witness during his high-profile sex trafficking trial.

The pregnant R&B singer took the stand this ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s high-speed rail project could see a major infusion in funding over the next 20 years of at least $1 billion annually from the state’s cap-and-trade program.

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BOISE, Idaho — The defense team for the man accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students plans to argue the possibility of alternative perpetrators at his upcoming murder trial, the judge confirmed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires.

Nearly a dozen ...Read more