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By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason | Reuters WASHINGTON – A merit-based immigration proposal being put together by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner could lead to an increase in U.S. visas for highly skilled workers, sources familiar with the effort said on Wednesday. Kushner is expected to present the comprehensive plan next week to […]

CARROLLTON, Ga. — The federal government says a meat company in Georgia has recalled tons of ground beef for possible contamination with E. coli bacteria. The bacteria is an unusual strain that has sickened 156 people in 10 states , hospitalizing 20 of them. Ground beef had been described as the likely source. However, officials […]

By Jason Hanna and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Police are looking for a New Mexico teenager who they say killed a postal carrier who tried to break up an argument between the boy and his mother. Xavier Zamora, 17, of Albuquerque, is wanted on a murder charge, accused of killing mail carrier Jose Hernandez […]

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN John William King, left; and James Byrd Jr. (CNN) — A man who helped orchestrate one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history — the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in East Texas — is slated to die Wednesday over the objections of some of Byrd’s […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The FBI is assisting California officials in the investigation of a motorist who appeared to deliberately plow into a group of people, injuring eight, authorities said Wednesday. Prentice Danner, a spokesman for the FBI’s field office in San Francisco, said the Sunnyvale Police Department is the lead agency in the investigation but […]

NEW YORK — The lawyers’ ads on the internet aggressively seeking clients to file sexual abuse lawsuits give a taste of what lies ahead this year for the Boy Scouts of America: potentially the most fateful chapter in its 109-year history. Sexual abuse settlements have already strained the Boy Scouts’ finances to the point where […]

They’ll send off Arlen Ness, “the king of custom motorcycles,” in style this Saturday. Several thousand people are expected to take part in a memorial ride from a church in Livermore to Dublin, site of the legendary Arlen Ness dealership and museum. At the front will be son Cory Ness. “I will be leading the […]

By Adam Taylor | Washington Post Days after a series of explosions that appeared to target Christians and foreigners at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka and left more than 300 people dead, some details of who was behind the attacks and their motives are beginning to come out. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for […]

CHICAGO — Two brothers who say they helped Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack against himself filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the “Empire” actor’s attorneys, alleging that they repeatedly asserted publicly that the brothers carried out a real, bigoted attack on Smollett despite knowing that wasn’t true. A lawyer for Olabinjo Osundairo and […]

An 18-year-old from New York is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming that a facial recognition system at its stores falsely connected him to a series of thefts. Ousmane Bah, who was arrested at his home in November, alleges that the warrant included a photo of someone else. The lawsuit also said that a detective […]

BOSTON — Get swole, prepare a bug-out bag, grab a go-cup and maybe you’ll have a better chance of surviving the omnicide. Translation: Hit the gym and bulk up, put a bunch of stuff essential for survival in an easy-to-carry bag, grab a drink for the road, and perhaps you’ll live through a man-made disaster […]

By Meagan Flynn | The Washington Post Suspicion would shadow Mary Jane Stewart for years in Warner Robins, Ga., over the brutal stabbing death of her roommate in 1975, right up until the day she was arrested for the crime more than 41 years later. But in the weeks immediately after the killing, Stewart managed […]