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Donald Trump was hoping for a win on Tuesday amid the slow start to his latest presidential campaign, believing a victory for his longtime friend and hand-picked candidate Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff would mitigate calls for new Republican leadership following a spate of losses for his endorsed candidates in high-profile 2022 races.

• 'Trump obsession is very bad': Senate Republicans confront problems after poor election showing • Trump poses with QAnon, Pizzagate conspiracy theorist at Mar-a-Lago

A slew of problems have stalled the growth of Beyond Meat, once a darling of Wall Street whose top product became synonymous with plant-based burgers.

Peruvian lawmakers have voted to oust President Pedro Castillo, dramatically escalating the country's political crisis that began hours earlier when Castillo attempted to dissolve the legislative body and install an emergency government. Journalist Stefano Pozzebon has the latest.

This year's most expensive US Senate race in the country -- over $380 million spent through the end of November -- is finally over. Georgia's incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, pastor at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, won the December 6 runoff against his Republican challenger, former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker.

Sen. Raphael Warnock's re-election is being celebrated by supporters across the nation with many political observers crediting the work of voting rights groups for the consequential win.

There were no active drugs found in actress Anne Heche's system at the time of her car crash in August, according to a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner report released Tuesday.

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former chief operating officer of failed blood testing startup Theranos, is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for fraud, marking an end to the stunning downfall of a high-flying Silicon Valley company that resulted in the rare convictions of two tech executives.

Police were responding Wednesday to a shooting with injuries at a Walmart in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Cobb County police said.

Elon Musk is on the verge of losing his status as the world's richest person, at least according to one metric.

The family of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick said Wednesday that snubbing GOP leaders during a congressional gold medal ceremony was not for partisan reasons, but an "integrity issue."

The Weeknd has confirmed that is he a part of the "Avatar" sequel soundtrack.

• LIVE UPDATES: How GOP senators are reacting after losing in Georgia • 5 takeaways from Georgia's Senate runoff • Opinion: What Warnock's victory means for the Democratic Party • Opinion: Kari Lake is leading an election denial parade, but nobody's following

Donald Trump's legal team will be back in court Wednesday morning to try to convince an federal appeals court that the former president should be immune from liability in three separate lawsuits stemming from the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

A core of ice age sediment from northern Greenland has yielded the world's oldest sequences of DNA.

As a librarian, Chelsea Banning must have known the life of a writer is a lonely one.