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A former Republican speaker of Ohio's House of Representatives was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for his role in a $60 million bribery scheme.

A task force examining reparations for Black residents in California released its final report Thursday with more than 115 recommendations for how the state should compensate those harmed by slavery and "historical atrocities."

A 24-year-old student has been charged with stabbing three people during a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo in Canada this week in what police are calling a "hate-motivated incident."

Firefighters responded to a transformer fire next to the jewelry store's 5th Avenue location in Manhattan. The fire comes just after Tiffany officially reopened the doors of its flagship shop after closing since 2019 for a costly renovation.

At least 100,000 people could have had their data compromised by a hack of contractors at the Department of Health and Human Services, a department official said Thursday, making it the latest US government agency to be caught up in a sweeping cyberattack connected to Russian cybercriminals.

The White House has been preparing for months for a potential Supreme Court ruling gutting affirmative action, even as President Joe Biden expressed optimism late last year that the court would uphold consideration of race in college admissions.

A senior campaign official for Donald Trump was allegedly shown a classified map by the former president during a meeting at his New Jersey golf club after Trump left office, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter made several suicide attempts as a young man, was involuntarily committed multiple times and has schizophrenia and epilepsy, a neurologist who examined him testified at his death penalty trial Wednesday.

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling Thursday on affirmative action pitted its two Black justices against each other.

Viewers aren't the only ones who appreciate the (brief) reunion of Samantha Jones with her "Sex and the City" friends.

Demonstrators breached the perimeter of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Thursday, a day after a protestor burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the most controversial aspect of his government's proposed judicial reform, a provision allowing the national legislature, the Knesset, to overturn Supreme Court rulings, has been dropped and will not be returning.

US pending home sales dropped more than expected in May, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.

Dangerous air quality and hazy skies persist as smoke from Canada's raging wildfires drifts south, leaving more than 100 million people under air quality alerts across a dozen states from Minnesota to New York and down to the Carolinas.

The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission, a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.

The suspect of the 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana admitted to his wife that he killed the girls, a newly unsealed court document alleges.

Italians were supposed to be on a "pasta strike" this week but it was called off after prices for the national staple started to fall. Zoom out, though, and global food prices are still far higher than a year ago, despite precipitous drops in the cost of key raw materials.

The prolonged shortage of a certain red sauce is making the black market go wild.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as an express factor in admissions.

As an ordained Christian minister, Ontay Johnson's faith teaches love is patient and kind. After one of his children came out as a transgender woman, the husband and father of three has had to practice what he preaches.