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The decision was aimed at the nation’s second Catholic president and exposed bitter divisions in American Catholicism.

A man who finished last in his fantasy football league had to spend 24 hours at a Waffle House restaurant. For every waffle he ate, his sentence was reduced by an hour.

Production problems and a brief pause on its use kept the one-dose vaccine from becoming the game changer that health officials across the country believed it would be.

Some objected to the phrase “Independence Day” in the formal name of the holiday celebrating the end of slavery. Others said federal workers did not need another paid day off.

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free. A century and a half later, people in cities and towns across the U.S. continue to celebrate the occasion.

The officers voted to leave the unit, known as the Rapid Response Team, hours after one of its members was charged with assaulting a woman at an Oregon protest in August.

A junior high cheerleading team took nearly identical photos with and without Morgyn Arnold. The school called the publication of the photo without her a mistake that is under investigation.

Democrats know that their election overhaul has no chance as long as the filibuster exists, but they are eager to show that all that stands in its way are Republicans.

The birthrate is falling for American women in their 20s, especially in places where the local economy is booming.

After two white families claimed a grade calculation error, a Mississippi school added their children as co-valedictorian and co-salutatorian, reviving questions about race and equity.

The company notified Donald F. McGahn II last month that it had been subpoenaed for his account information three years ago.

The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.

The Cascade County Sheriff’s Office said it appeared to be the oldest homicide case in the United States to be solved with genetic genealogy.

A suspect and a sheriff’s deputy were wounded as they exchanged gunfire in a suburb of Atlanta, the authorities said.

A recent graduate in Alpine, Texas, who could not find an affordable lawyer represented herself in court, arguing that school officials made errors in tabulating grade-point averages.

Photos of at least 80 female students at a Florida school had been digitally edited. The school superintendent said there was no “intent to embarrass or shame” them for the clothes they wore.

The Justice Department also said it was changing its policy to bar seizing reporters’ phone and email records in hunts for their sources.

Emails show the increasingly urgent efforts by President Trump and his allies during his last days in office to find some way to undermine, or even nullify, the election results.