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LOS ANGELES -- A hulking, unfinished mansion perched on a Bel-Air hillside must be torn down to the slab, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge said in a recent ruling, declaring it a "danger to the public."

But a bankruptcy...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump is trading insults with Kim Jong-un, North Korea is launching missiles and no one's talking about disarmament. It's beginning to feel like the days of "fire and fury" are here again.

Or maybe ...Read more

Music mogul Russell Simmons is challenging Oprah Winfrey for executive producing a documentary featuring a woman who has accused him of rape.

On Friday, Simmons took to Instagram to express his disappointment with Winfrey...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Gov. Tim Walz notified the Trump administration Friday that the state will continue to welcome refugees, pointedly saying that the "inn is not full in Minnesota."

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike...Read more

BALTIMORE -- An audit commissioned by new members of the University of Maryland Medical System's board of directors has determined that top system officials never read former Mayor Catherine Pugh's "Healthy Holly" books ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur on Friday after reports about the online talk show host making crude and degrading comments about women and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump's appeal and decide whether the Constitution shields his tax returns and business records from being released to House Democrats and New York ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The United States and China have reached a preliminary trade agreement that includes the cancellation and rollback of some tariffs on Chinese products and a commitment by Beijing to step up purchases of ...Read more

LONDON -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson told British voters he wants to build a "people's government" after his Conservatives won a resounding victory in a snap general election on Friday.

The Conservatives won a majority ...Read more

Danny Aiello, the veteran character actor known for his Oscar-nominated supporting turn in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," died Thursday night in New Jersey. He was 86.

Aiello's death was confirmed by his publicist on ...Read more

MIAMI -- Federal agents have seized $250 million from convicted ex-Venezuelan national treasurer Alejandro Andrade, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for his central role in a $1 billion money laundering scheme that...Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- As about 80 protesters came to Chapel Hill on Friday to protest the University of North Carolina System's $2.5 million Silent Sam settlement with the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- At least three of the seven Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for next week's scheduled debate in Los Angeles threatened Friday to skip the event to express support for union workers in a ...Read more

North Dakota oil production surged 5% in October, hitting a new record and topping the 1.5 million barrel-per-day mark for the first time.

Natural gas production in North Dakota also rose handily in October in North ...Read more

LONDON -- Exulting in his party's sweeping election victory, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Friday to swiftly steer the country out of the European Union -- a move his vanquished foes acknowledge is now ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- The world was different when comedian Louis C.K. last performed in Baltimore. It was May 2016, and C.K. was headlining four shows at the Modell Lyric. Media moguls like Harvey Weinstein were still in power, ...Read more

NEW YORK -- The flu is out in force. And so far this season, it's been hitting children the hardest.

Influenza is a wily virus -- it's almost impossible to predict where and how it will strike as it circumnavigates the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The officer at the front desk of the LAPD's Rampart station couldn't understand the language the distraught mother and daughter were speaking. So he called over the intercom for help.

As she listened to the...Read more

WASHINGTON -- More than $20 million of the Pentagon aid at the center of the impeachment fight still hasn't reached Ukraine.

The continued delay undermines a key argument against impeachment from President Donald Trump's ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In another twist to the bizarre political saga involving South Florida businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, a recent court filing suggested that the pair might have drawn on foreign funds from South Korea ...Read more