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It is with a weird retrospective guilt that I have to admit: Hamas once saved me from a kidnapping in Gaza.

You might have thought it was a Democrat who recently said that House Republicans were in the "same stupid clown car with a different driver." And while I'm sure many Democrats feel that way, it was Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson who uttered that memorable phrase.

Imagine you're at the movies: The lights have dimmed, the previews are over, chatter dwindles to a hush. You take a sip of soda through a straw. You pop some artificially buttery popcorn into your mouth. You tear open a bag of Skittles and start to chew.

Australians will cast the final votes on Saturday in a referendum that will set the tone of relations with the country's First Nations people for decades to come, as polls show almost certain defeat for Yes supporters and Indigenous campaigners who have long appealed for change.

The New York attorney general's office says criminal charges won't be brought against officers after a man covered in hand sanitizer was tased and caught on fire -- an incident that left him dead weeks later.

Saturday's ring of fire annular solar eclipse will alter weather conditions on the Earth's surface as it plays out in the sky.

Gaza's humanitarian crisis deepened Thursday with warnings people are at risk of starvation as Israel maintained a siege and bombarded targets in response to the Hamas terror attacks that killed more than 1,200 people.

Construction workers in northeast Florida have unearthed a piece of 19th-century history buried beneath the oldest city in the United States.

The Biden administration underlined its public and fulsome show of support for Israel Friday as two of its most senior national security officials visited the Middle East ahead of an expected Israeli ground incursion into Gaza.

Top officials from the campaigns of Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott made their case Friday to major Republican donors, as they compete to position themselves as the most viable alternative to former President Donald Trump.

House Republicans have picked Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan as their new speaker nominee Friday, but more than 50 Republicans voted against supporting him on the House floor -- leaving the party still in disarray as it has been unable to elect a speaker in the 10 days since the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy.

President Joe Biden on Friday spoke with the families of the Americans who remain unaccounted for in Israel after promising to speak with family members of those who are held hostage by Hamas.

UAW President Shawn Fain said the union would not expand its strike against the Big Three automakers on Friday, but that the UAW stood ready to add more workers to the picket lines at any time as its labor action enters a new phase.

A Black Texas high school student who has been suspended for more than a month over the length of his locs hairstyle has been referred to an alternative school, according to a notice sent to his mother from his school principal and obtained by CNN.

Elon Musk's social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for "exercising their right to protected concerted activity" following X's return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board.

The BBC said Friday that a group of its journalists covering Israel's war with Hamas were held at gunpoint and assaulted by Israeli police in Tel Aviv.

The average composite score on the ACT college admissions test dropped to their lowest levels since 1991, according to data released this week.

Many schools, psychologists and safety groups are urging parents to disable their children's social media apps over mounting concerns that Hamas plans to disseminate graphic videos of hostages captured in the Israel-Gaza war.

Republican Rep. Austin Scott, who entered the race for House speaker after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise dropped out of the race Thursday, lost the GOP's nomination to Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Israel's military is telling 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes immediately, as it appears to prepare to ramp up retaliation for Hamas' October 7 terror attacks.