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Elise Caffee, a popular mom blogger in Utah, has died after being badly burned by hot asphalt in a car wreck in Mexico. Caffee ran the Instagram account 3KidsTravel, where she posted to her more than 45,000 followers about traveling with her husband, Dan, and their three children. According to a …

Newsmax agreed to pay Smartmatic $40 million as part of a settlement last year following the voting technology company’s election defamation lawsuit against the right-wing news outlet, according to a new regulatory filing. The settlement, reached in September, included a cash payment and an option to purchase stock in Newsmax, …

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., died Thursday due to “complications of his cancer treatment,” his office announced in a statement. Grijalva, who served in the House for more than 20 years, was first elected to Congress in 2002. During that time he served as chair of the House Natural Resources …

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Thursday that he would not run for the U.S. Senate or for governor in Michigan next year. “I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race,” …

WASHINGTON — Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges, in a move seen as a gesture of goodwill between two allies, a representative for the detainees told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The release follows a recent visit …

A pair of jurists vying to be Wisconsin’s next Supreme Court justice sparred Wednesday night ahead of the first major statewide race in a battleground since the 2024 election. The tense one-hour debate in Milwaukee between liberal judge Susan Crawford and conservative judge Brad Schimel focused in large part on …

VINTON, La. — In House Speaker Mike Johnson’s backyard, many residents rely on anti-poverty programs to help make ends meet — and are pleading with the Louisiana Republican to protect those benefits as Congress weighs steep federal spending cuts.  Pastor Leroy McClelland, who lives in Johnson’s southwestern Louisiana district and volunteers at …

With a mobile app and an expansive ad campaign, the Department of Homeland Security is ramping up its efforts to convince immigrants who don’t have legal status to self-deport. The efforts come as the number of deportations is lower than what President Donald Trump expected in his first couple of …

Price growth was set to have cooled slightly in February, forecasters said in advance of the latest Consumer Price Index report, but President Donald Trump’s tariff policies are already threatening to derail things. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly inflation report early Wednesday. A survey of analysts …

A new NASA observatory launched into space Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists unravel what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) is designed to …