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The NFL hit four Detroit Lions and one Washington Commander with heavy suspensions for allegedly violating league gambling policy, officials said Friday. Wide receiver Quintez Cephus and safety C.J. Moore of the Lions, and defensive end Shaka Toney of the Commanders were “suspended indefinitely through at least the conclusion of …

What matters to China is consumer and investor confidence, “so it is not hard to see why Chinese officials are pushing back on the argument that a population decline spells economic decline,” said Dimitar Gueorguiev, an associate professor who teaches Chinese politics at Syracuse University. To China, being the most …

Charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western movie “Rust” after “new facts” surfaced in recent days, officials said Thursday. The announcement came 2 ½ months after New Mexico prosecutors filed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin. In a statement, …

A North Carolina man accused of shooting a man and his 6-year-old daughter was in custody Thursday in a case neighbors say began when a basketball rolled into the suspect’s yard. Robert Louis Singletary, 24, turned himself in Tampa, Florida, after a manhunt that began Tuesday night, officials in Gaston …

It’s the end of an era on Twitter. Many users on the platform on Thursday said they lost their verified blue check marks, posting screenshots of their profiles sans verification. As of early Thursday afternoon, celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian had lost their …

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Two people are dead in Oklahoma after a possible tornado struck Wednesday night, authorities said. The McClain County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the two deaths and said in a Facebook post that crews were responding to reports of injuries and people trapped in their shelters. Residents of Cole, a town in …

A former prosecutor for the Manhattan district attorney’s office must appear for a deposition before the House Judiciary Committee, despite the DA’s contention that House Republicans are trying to interfere with his investigation into former President Donald Trump. In a ruling Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil sided …

DADEVILLE, Ala. — Two teenage brothers were arrested in connection with a shooting that left four people dead and 32 injured at a weekend Sweet 16, authorities said Wednesday. The boys, 16-year-old Travis McCullough and 17-year-old Ty Reik McCullough from Tuskegee, were taken into custody on charges of reckless murder …

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Washington on Tuesday to greet a parade of congressional Republicans interested in his emerging presidential campaign. Former President Donald Trump promptly rained on that parade with a shower of endorsements, several of them from their shared home state. Trump has secured the …