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Gene Deitch, an American Oscar-winning illustrator, animator, film director and producer has died. He was 95. His Czech publisher, Petr Himmel, told The Associated Press Deitch died unexpectedly during the night from Thursday to Friday in his apartment in Prague’s Little Quarter neighborhood. No further details were given. Deitch’s movie […]

Shake Shack plans to return a $10 million loan it received under an emergency small business rescue program, amid a growing backlash against big businesses that got the money before $350 billion in funding lapsed last week. The burger chain was just one of several large restaurant operators and publicly […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders would be well on his way to the Democratic nomination if the Democrat Party didn’t work with Sen. Elizabeth Warren to hamstring his campaign by staying in the race until after Super Tuesday, President Trump said in a tweet early Wednesday. Trump referred to Warren as “Pocahontas,” and wrote that she worked “in […]

Donald Trump Jr. wants to debate Hunter Biden in a bid to prove the former vice president’s son has financially benefited more than him from their fathers’ government positions. President Trump’s eldest son offered up the idea in an “Axios on HBO” interview that aired Sunday night. “You know what will be great, I’ll let […]

Starting in April, immigration authorities will start taking cheek swabs to collect DNA from hundreds of thousands of immigration detainees in federal custody each year. The Trump Administration says the policy change will help law enforcement apprehend criminal suspects. The data collected will be transferred to an FBI database, so that […]

The Republican National Committee shelled out nearly $95,000 for copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s new book, which helped land it atop the New York Times’ bestseller list. Records filed with the Federal Election Commission show the party spent $94,800 on “donor mementos” from Books-A-Million on October 29, days before Trump’s book “Triggered: […]

Two Air Force pilots were killed Thursday morning during an “aircraft mishap” at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, officials said. The Air Force said the “mishap” occurred around 9:10 a.m. while the aircraft was performing a training mission. Vance emergency response personnel were at the scene treating casualties and assisting in recovery efforts. Col. Corey […]

Muncie, Ind. — Mayor Dennis Tyler, a Democrat nearing the end of his second term in office — was arrested Monday by the FBI as part of a sprawling public corruption probe that has snared several officials in his administration. The indictment charges Tyler, 76, with one count of theft of government […]

Students at an Arkansas college suspect a campus chemistry lab was turned into a meth lab after the arrest of two professors, according to a report. Henderson State University chemistry professors Terry Bateman, 45, and Bradley Rowland, 40, were charged Friday with the manufacture of methamphetamine and the use of drug paraphernalia, Fox […]

A man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk 25 years ago as part of his plot to steal beer was put to death in Georgia Wednesday night despite last-minute pleas from his attorneys to carry out DNA testing they claim would exonerate the death row inmate. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, who insisted that […]