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Candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election have claimed nearly two-thirds of Republican nominations for state and federal offices with authority over elections, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Edward Leclair vomited and collapsed minutes after drinking a mysterious liquid in a Texas courtroom as a judge pronounced him guilty.

Iran said author Salman Rushdie and his supporters were to blame for the attack, more than three decades after Tehran issued a directive for Muslims to kill Rushdie because of his book “The Satanic Verses.”

The South Carolina senator had argued that he should be exempt from testifying due to speech or debate clause protections, sovereign immunity and his position as a high-ranking government official.

The visit began Sunday with little notice ahead of time. The delegation was due to leave late Monday.

The rapid takeover triggered the hasty escape of Western-backed occupiers, sent the economy into a tailspin and fundamentally transformed the country.

With virtually no independent journalists left inside and foreign reporters banned from entering, Nicaragua has become ‘an information black hole.’

Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could relaunch the political career of a former Republican star and effectively end the career of another — at least for now.

Murkowski benefits from avoiding a Republican primary, “which she would have had a zero percent — I mean zero percent — chance of winning,” said Alaska pollster Ivan Moore.

Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group describes as “alarming.”

Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of injuries from a fiery car crash. She was 53.

Mexico’s president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army, a move that could extend the military’s control over policing in a country with high levels of violence.

Two top anti-abortion groups have crafted and successfully lobbied for state legislation to ban or further restrict drugs used to terminate pregnancies.

Pennsylvania state police say a man who was upset about an argument with his mother drove through a crowd at a fundraiser for victims of a recent deadly house fire, killing one person at the event and injuring 17 others, then returned home and beat his mother to death.

Authorities in Norway have euthanized a walrus that had drawn crowds of spectators in the Oslo Fjord after concluding that it posed a risk to humans.

Researchers found the claims are integral to campaigns for conservative candidates.

Many in the GOP have launched broadsides against law enforcement, prompting even some of their colleagues to urge them to tone down the rhetoric.

Lack of water is shrinking production in a region responsible for a quarter of the world’s output, which is having an impact on prices of tomato-based products.

A state police inquiry in Michigan found evidence of a conspiracy that has echoes elsewhere in the country as election deniers seek proof of 2020 fraud.

Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some Jan. 6 defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot, using it as a platform to drum up cash, promote business endeavors and boost social media profiles.

The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk and joke after suffering erious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York.

A man drove his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday and then began firing gunshots in the air before fatally shooting himself, police said.

The NASA astronaut will be traveling to the International Space Station this fall and, if chosen, is on route to potentially being the first woman on the moon .