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Comedian Bill Maher was the guest of honor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night.

California authorities unearthed at least 117 dogs in “various states of decomposition” on Friday, many of which appeared to have been killed by gunshot, as part of an ongoing investigation into an animal rescue organization

Khadijah Farrakhan, longtime wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died on Saturday, the Nation of Islam has announced.

Two women and a toddler were found dead Saturday night at a Jackson, Mississippi home, according to the Jackson Police Department.

The man investigators say was behind a foiled plot to attack the UFC event at the White House was driven by a shuffling playlist of grievances, court documents suggest.

At least three people have died in flash floods caused by heavy rain and multiple thunderstorms in Kentucky, officials said, with additional fatalities expected to be confirmed soon.

In the years after a former Las Vegas youth pastor allegedly pushed his wife from an iconic peak at Zion National Park, he appears to have lived lavishly off an insurance payout from her death and threw booze-fueled parties for church youth, court documents allege

A Michigan couple have been charged with murder in connection with the death of their 7-year-old son, who was 255 pounds when he died, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton

Gracie the giraffe was found just miles away from the Texas ranch she vanished from about two weeks ago

A man who was accused of faking his own death in 2020 and fleeing to Europe to evade rape charges in the U.S. has died after he was taken to a hospital from a Utah prison, authorities said Friday