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Beth Chapman, the wife of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman, died Wednesday after being placed in a medically induced coma on Monday. Her husband announced her death on Twitter Wednesday morning. It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only […]

By Allyson Chiu | The Washington Post When Beronica Ruiz went to pick up her 12-year-old son from school in Passaic, N.J., last week, it wasn’t the first time that day she needed to be there. Hours earlier, Ruiz and her husband had met with the school’s vice principal over concerns that their son was […]

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By Matthew Cappucci | Special To The Washington Post It’s been nearly two years since the “Great American Eclipse.” Millions crammed into a 70-mile wide path of totality stretching from coast to coast, where the moon blotted out the sun to usher in a spontaneous nightfall. It was a planetary cavalcade unlike anything most had […]

By Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram | The Associated Press WASHINGTON — It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s immigration policy has crossed the line from gratuitous cruelty to flat-out sadism. Perhaps he enjoys seeing innocent children warehoused in filth and squalor. Perhaps he thinks that’s what America is all about. Is he right, Trump supporters? Is he right, Republicans in Congress? Is this what you want? A team of […]

By Claire Parker | Washington Post Forget your exams, go to the pool and make sure to eat. That’s the message French authorities are urgently sending residents, and not just for joie de vivre – but as a matter of life or death. As a massive heat wave bears down on Europe in coming days, […]

By Alex Horton | Washington Post From the air, the massive crater resembles a pink virus floating against a pool of green. But from the ground, the destruction is clear and unforgiving: A 33-foot wide, 13-foot gouge into the earth that began in the 1940s with an Allied sortie and ended Sunday morning in a […]

By Emanuella Grinberg and Hollie Silverman, CNN Jennifer Dulos. (CNN) — An attorney for the estranged husband of a Connecticut mother who has been missing for more than a month doubled down on his theory that she may have disappeared in a “Gone Girl”-style escape from her life. The family and friends of Jennifer Dulos, […]

SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah student missing for over a week was last seen meeting an unknown person at a park at 3 in the morning, authorities said Monday. The Lyft driver who took Mackenzie Lueck from the airport and dropped her off at a park in a Salt Lake City suburb […]

By Alan Fram | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is threatening to veto a $4.5 billion House bill aimed at improving the treatment of migrant families detained after crossing the U.S. southern border, saying the measure would hamstring the administration’s border security efforts and raising fresh questions about the legislation’s fate. […]

CHICAGO — Chicago police on Monday released more than 1,000 files from the investigation into Jussie Smollett’s claim he was attacked by two men, including video footage that for the first time shows the “Empire” actor with a thin, white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detectives was a noose. The footage from […]