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Former President George W. Bush came out of hiding last week to endorse several Republican senators whose reelection campaigns are wobbling ominously wake of his party’s presumptive presidential nominee. The 43rd president recently headlined fundraisers for Senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and will soon repeat the act for Senators […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place gun control laws in New York and Connecticut that ban assault weapons like the one used in last week’s massacre at an Orlando nightclub, rejecting a challenge brought by gun rights advocates. The court‘s action underlined its reluctance to insert itself into the simmering national debate

WASHINGTON — The FBI released a partial transcript Monday of conversations between gunman Omar Mateen and Orlando police during his deadly rampage at Pulse nightclub June 12, in which Mateen called himself an Islamic soldier and refused to cooperate with hostage negotiators. The transcript, which includes a 50-second phone conversation with police, sheds light on

Not far from the Magic Kingdom, a child was swept up by an alligator, dragged into a lagoon and killed. The 2-year-old had wandered away from his parents, as toddlers often do. Before they knew it, the child had made his way to the edge of the water where a 4- to 7-foot gator lay