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U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised Sunday the United States would not default on its national debts as the country approaches its $31.4 trillion spending limit in June but said the government cannot continue to annually spend more…

The pastor at the Memphis church where Tyre Nichols' family spoke from the pulpit urging peace after his brutal killing reiterated the call for calm Sunday following the release of video showing the fatal beating by police.  Cities…

Barrett Strong, one of Motown's founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company's breakthrough single “Money (That's What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It…

The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs will meet in the upcoming U.S. National Football League’s Super Bowl championship game. The Eagles trounced the visiting San Francisco 49ers 31-7 Sunday in the National Football…

Less than a week after helping secure billions of dollars in additional military assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, including U.S.- and German-made battle tanks, top U.S. defense officials are shifting their focus to the…

Chinatown in Los Angeles held the 124th historical Golden Dragon Parade in celebration of the Lunar New Year Saturday. The event wasn’t canceled despite the attack on a ballroom dance hall just over a week ago in Monterey Park, where a…

New York City is known for many things and now is breaking some weather records. Dubbed the city that never sleeps or the big apple, New York has broken a 50-year record — set on January 29, 1973 — for its latest-ever measurable winter…

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew will appear before the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee in March, as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Chew will testify before the committee on March 23, which will be his…

Police in the southern U.S. city of Memphis, Tennessee, have disciplined a sixth officer for his role in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, following a traffic stop. Officer Preston Hemphill was fired from his job…