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In a major policy speech in New York City on Tuesday, the Democrat called for an end to banks being “too big to fail.”

The atmospheric phenomenon has generated heavy rain in California, and could result in strange weather elsewhere.

Chemotherapy and radiation treatments may be to blame for heart problems later in life, a study says.

There are 276 identified militia groups in the U.S., up 37 percent from 2014, a hate monitoring group says.

A progressive group has collected 23,000 signatures to a petition asking the DNC to remove Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

An elementary school has banned the morning tradition after a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Beijing issued two red smog alerts in December, which indicate the greatest level of danger from air pollution.

The president cried in 2012 after the killings at Sandy Hook.

Republican lawmakers want the Missouri University professor who called for "muscle" to remove a journalist at protest fired.

At least 52 people were killed in the U.S. by domestic extremists, an Anti-Defamation League report says.

St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, released a report last month acknowledging it had mishandled multiple abuse cases.

Can the president’s initiatives against gun violence result in people losing their weapons? Not quite.

Epiphany celebrates the revelation to the world of the birth of Jesus.

The city’s system must start paying $26 million per month and will run out of cash by the end of the school year.

The president, flanked Tuesday by survivors of gun violence, announced new measures to control firearm sales.

About 100 people have signed a petition urging the hosts to reconsider the event.

A Mississippi councilman defended comments that claimed police chases in his ward were racially motivated.

A bill would eliminate certain requirements for buying health insurance and end federal funding to Planned Parenthood for a year.

The incident is still under investigation, but police said the evidence suggests it was an accident.

After only two months of medical marijuana sales, Illinois has collected over $100,000 in taxes.

DeKalb County Police Chief John Conroy reportedly said that a man “armed with a knife" held a woman and 11 children hostage near Atlanta.

U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang accused the lawyer of hiding evidence in the fatal shooting of the black man in 2011.

The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, reopened Monday for the first time since the Dec. 2 shootings that left 14 dead.

The company maintains that it offers customers a game of skill, not a gambling endeavor.

The Obama administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a law that has shuttered nearly half the clinics in the state.

The president is set to announce executive actions Tuesday aimed at reducing gun violence in America.

Armed protesters occupying a federal building in Oregon have said they will not budge until their demands are met.

For more than 15 percent of women, giving birth will result in pelvic injuries that will not heal.

A South Carolina judge said a trial delay prompted a reversal of his decision to deny bail to Michael Slager in the death of Walter Scott.