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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday announced it is dropping — for now ― a plan to ban menthol cigarettes after months of speculation about the proposal’s future.

Health and Human Services Secretary ...Read more

The opening week of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial offered plenty of insights into how his 2016 presidential campaign teamed up with a tabloid publisher to silence embarrassing stories from women who said they�...Read more

BALTIMORE — Pikesville High School’s athletic director was arrested Thursday morning in connection with an artificial intelligence-made audio clip of the school’s principal having a fake, racist conversation.

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed Friday a $6 billion commitment for long-term contracts to provide Ukraine with weapons such as Patriot missiles, artillery ammunition and drones.

Austin laid out a ...Read more

BOSTON — A former American Airlines flight attendant who’s accused of filming a girl in a plane’s bathroom on a Boston-bound flight has been indicted, according to the feds.

Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For Ellen DeGeneres, toxic workplace allegations that clouded her long-running daytime series marked the end of an era. This week, the comedian’s public fallout became comeback material.

Two years after ...Read more

NEW YORK — Kim Petras has pulled the plug on her previously scheduled festival appearances this summer.

The 31-year-old singer, the first openly trans person to win a Grammy Award, cited health problems as the reason ...Read more

NEW YORK — Playwright Paula Vogel has written a deeply personal play about life with one’s mother, and her late mom, Phyllis Rita, would surely have been delighted to have her Broadway appearance played by no less than...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles traffic is so notoriously bad, some residents might be willing to do anything to cut down on wait time — including driving with a mannequin in the passenger seat.

A California Highway Patrol ...Read more

Kim Kardashian made a return to the White House this week to discuss criminal justice reform with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The reality TV star — and billionaire business mogul — joined a roundtable discussion ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City police officer has been indicted on 14 federal counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri announced Friday....Read more

Buckingham Palace and the British government began reviewing hundreds of documents related to King Charles III’s future funeral following the monarch’s cancer diagnosis, according to a report.

Little is known about ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore publisher is suing the companies behind the massive cargo ship that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, saying they were negligent for allowing an allegedly unseaworthy ship to sail...Read more

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past personal foibles reemerged in the trial of former President Donald Trump over allegations of a hush money payment to a porn star in an attempt to cover up their sexual ...Read more

DETROIT — A federal judge Friday refused to let an accused Islamic State supporter convicted after an FBI counterterrorism investigation travel to the West Bank this weekend to attend a wedding while under court ...Read more

If you thought Emma Stone was Emma Stone’s real name, you are sorely mistaken.

The two-time Oscar winner shared this week that she would like to be called by her given name — Emily Stone — despite her many years in ...Read more

In 1973, the National Hurricane Center introduced the Saffir-Simpson scale, a five-category rating system that classified hurricanes by wind intensity.

At the bottom of the scale was Category 1, for storms with sustained ...Read more

Jeannie Mai and Jeezy’s ongoing custody battle and divorce is growing even more contentious as new legal documents reveal allegations of domestic violence, verbal abuse and child neglect by Mai against the “Put On” ...Read more

NEW YORK — Legacies for me, but not for thee.

Two years ago, Rep. Jamaal Bowman introduced a bill in Congress seeking to prohibit preferential admissions for legacy applicants at colleges — but a video recently ...Read more

KHARKIV, Ukraine — It made for an unlovely municipal symbol, soaring but hardly graceful: the 800-foot-tall Soviet-era television tower that was for decades a familiar signature in the skyline of Ukraine's second-...Read more