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American students would be better off if the states handled education—and my home state, Louisiana, provides a perfect example.

On Thursday, District Judge Ellen Hollander imposed a preliminary injunction heavily restricting access to Americans' government held Social Security data from Elon Musk 's Department of Government ...

In another sign of China's growing presence in the Middle East, it recentlycarried out military drills in the Gulf of Aden as ...

A powerful weather system has been moving across the country, bringing an elevated threat of severe storms to Nebraska and Iowa.

Recent executive orders issued by the Trump administration—one misleadingly titled " Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History " and another that guts the Institute of Museum and Library Services ...

New Images from the European Space Agency have captured the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Aden.

An E. coli outbreak tied to romaine lettuce affected 89 people and killed one, but the FDA did not warn the public or name the source.

The U.S. and South Korea commenced a large-scale air exercise on Thursday to enhance their readiness posture against North ...

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A woman was walking down the street with her dog when she was stopped by a stranger—who let her know she and her dog were identical, but not in the way she originally thought. Jesse Lynn Harte, 29, is ...

A Logan Paul spokesperson told Newsweek the company dropped its "meritless" lawsuit after seeing footage of the incident.