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A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a substance containing a high amount of the chili pepper extract capsaicin, according to autopsy results. Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Worcester, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip manu...

“If you know me well enough, I made ‘Yellowstone’ the first priority, and to insinuate anything else would be wrong,” he said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a business-backed challenge that could have scuttled the federal agency set up to protect consumers from shady financial services practices. The court on a 7-2 vote ruled that the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which allows the agency to be funded directly by the Federal Reserve...

In the span of a week, three women who won titles within the Miss USA organization last year have stepped away from their crowns. 

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.

The principal of a central Florida elementary school was arrested this week and accused of holding a child in a room for 40 minutes, putting him in a chokehold and hitting him with a charging cable.

Family members of an Army reservist who killed 18 people in Maine gave an emotional apology on Thursday and said Army officials and law enforcement frustrated their efforts to get him mental health care before the deadly rampage.

Prosecutors’ star witness is back in the hot seat at Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial.

A dog named Faye got herself into a tight situation after getting stuck in a wall of her Garden Grove home. 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sought help this week to find the woman who abandoned an infant at a store in Lomita.

The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors on July 17.

At Mexico City’s Tacos El Califa de León, there are only four things on the menu, all tacos, and all of which came from a cow’s rib, loin or fore shank.

Peter Sean Brown is a U.S. citizen who born in Philadelphia and currently lives in the Florida Keys. In 2018, he was wrongfully detained on a deportation order.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly rose above 40,000 for the first time as a banner year on Wall Street continued.

Uber on Wednesday announced several new product updates like Uber Shuttle, Costco perks and a feature that lets caregivers book rides for loved ones.

Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10.