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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. R-Ga., said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is “not fit for office” after he appeared to freeze up for a second time at the podium in recent weeks when speaking to reporters. “Severe aging health issues and/or mental health incompetence in our nation’s leaders MUST be addressed,” …

At least 58 people died when a fire ripped through a multi-story building in Johannesburg that had been overtaken by homeless people, emergency services said Thursday. Spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said another 43 people were injured in the blaze that broke out in the predawn hours. He said the death toll …

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is formally recommending that the Drug Enforcement Administration ease government restrictions on marijuana, which remains illegal at the federal level even though 40 states allow its use in some form. The move comes 11 months after President Joe Biden ordered the …

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze again Wednesday, this time during a gaggle with reporters in Covington, Kentucky, stopping for more than 30 seconds after he was asked if he would run for re-election. The Kentucky Republican froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going …

Hurricane Idalia has made landfall in Florida. Idalia was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane early Wednesday morning, shortly before making landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region just before 8 a.m. ET. As of Wednesday morning, the hurricane has wind speeds reaching 120 mph, speeds that capable of snapping trees, …

A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, minutes after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term. Appearing on television channel Gabon 24, the officers said they represented all …

CANBERRA, Australia — The bodies of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia were retrieved from the crash scene while another Marine remained in critical condition, the Marine Corps said Tuesday. Those killed were from Illinois, Virginia and Colorado. The Marine V-22B …

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A graduate student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was charged with first-degree murder after the fatal shooting of a professor in his research department. Tailei Qi, an applied physical sciences major and international student from China, made his first court appearance Tuesday in Orange County …

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told attendees at a judicial conference in Wisconsin on Monday that she welcomed public scrutiny of the court. But she stopped short of commenting on whether she thinks the court should change how it operates in the face of recent …

Ten people have been charged in the abduction and death in Ithaca, New York, of a homeless man reported missing in the spring, state and local authorities announced Monday. Thomas Rath, 33, was reported missing from a homeless encampment in the city May 20, and on Aug. 3 his remains …