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The Senate is moving closer to wrapping up debate over repealing the Affordable Care Act, but lawmakers have still not seen the bill they’re discussing.

As Republicans seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act, scores of former Obama aides who helped create the law are fighting to save it.

The war in Congress over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has brought anxiety to the people whose health insurance is at risk.

Using vulgar language in an interview with The New Yorker, Mr. Scaramucci, the White House communications director, disparaged his adversaries.

The military’s policy is unchanged until the White House alters the rules, a top Pentagon official said a day after President Trump announced that the armed services would bar transgender members.

The unusual brief came in a Long Island case that could prove to be a test of whether federal anti-discrimination laws should cover gay workers.

Read about how the other side thinks: Writers across the political spectrum on the president’s barring of transgender people from military service.

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

“Seriously, this is weapons grade bonkers.”

The White House’s new communications director isn’t hiding his distaste for Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon.

Tyler Jarrell, the 18-year-old victim, was in the process of joining the Marines.

There's now a pile of evidence of Trump-Russia contacts and four ongoing investigations.

Well, that was quick.

Like the experts, they think this latest scheme would destabilize markets.

The high-profile reporter is taking a buyout as the paper reorganizes its newsroom.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he "very much regrets" the worsening of relations between Russia and the United States.

CNN's Ryan Lizza received a phone call from White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci asking him to name one of his sources. During the call, Scaramucci called President Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus a "paranoid schizophrenic."

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Village elders in Pakistan ordered the rape of a 17-year-old girl after her brother was accused of raping another girl.

Charlie Gard, the terminally ill baby at the center of a bitter legal battle that has garnered global attention, is to have his life support treatment withdrawn.

France has announced its intention to set up "hot spots" in Libya to process refugee claims and help deter people from attempting the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean.

The new White House communications director is vindictive and volatile in the interview, muses about killing people and metaphorically talked about colleagues performing sex acts upon themselves.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a measured statement that he was open to a conference committee to continue talks on the “skinny repeal,” after a group of key Republican senators threatened to sink the bill if the House did not agree to negotiate with the goal of creating a more sweeping rollback of the Affordable Care Act.

On controversies ranging from his attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to the military transgender ban to the Boy Scouts, Trump got an earful from those considered friendly to him.

The administration has said that the president may veto a bill increasing sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, despite there being veto-proof majorities in both the Senate and House. The Senate voted to pass the bill Thursday, two days after the House passed it 419-3.

Russia probe reaches into Trump's closest secrets        

Colorful is a serious understatement for the language the new White House communications director used.        

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday the narrow repeal bill the Senate is hoping to pass appears to be the only way forward to replace Obamacare.        

WalletHub measured the affordability, availability of activities for retirees, quality of life, and level of healthcare access of 150 U.S. cities.        

The near-constant in-fighting within President Trump's White House burst back into public view Thursday.        

Joe Gibbs Racing suspended two crewmen from Martin Truex Jr.’s Cup Series team who were involved in incident with Kyle Busch crew chief Adam Stevens.        

Curtis Bordenave's application comes on the heels of a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a federal law that prohibited trademarks of disparaging words and symbols.        

The Fire Ball – a swinging, rotating ride with bright, fiery colors emblazoned on its six tentacle-like arms – had torn apart.        

An escalating White House war between two top advisers to President Donald Trump entered a new stage Thursday after Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci lobbed a grenade of leak accusations that were seen as an attack against chief of staff Reince Priebus.

Republicans are working their way through a list of demands in order to secure enough votes to pass a pared-down version of an Obamacare repeal bill.

Graham warned President Donald Trump "there will be holy Hell to pay" if he fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

WASHINGTON— The House passed a $788 billion spending bill Thursday that combines a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump's controversial border wall with Mexico with a whopping budget increase for the Pentagon. The 326- page measure would make good on longtime GOP promises to reverse an erosion in military readiness. GOP leaders used the...

The DOJ told an appeals court this week that federal civil rights law does not ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called President Donald Trump's recent criticisms are "kind of hurtful" Thursday.

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump has presented the Medal of Valor to five of the first responders injured in a shooting on a congressional baseball practice last month.

'Green' approaches may be the best way to protect coastal communities from flooding associated with climate change.

After a year of slights, barbs and misunderstandings, Germany and Turkey are girding for a showdown that could rattle the European Union, alter the fight on terrorism and escalate the refugee crisis.

Pyongyang’s cyberarmy has splintered into multiple groups and is unleashing orchestrated attacks increasingly focused on funneling stolen funds to the secretive nation, according to a government-backed South Korean report.

The head of Japan’s main opposition party resigned abruptly for failing to boost its election prospects despite the scandals afflicting the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The tiny emirate of Qatar is withstanding a far-reaching embargo by Saudi-led Arab nations because it has drawn the right lessons from its previous neighborhood squabble.

Israel removed the remaining security measures at the entrance to one of Jerusalem’s holiest sites, acceding to Palestinian demands in a move that appeared aimed at ending a standoff that has piled pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Emmanuel Macron’s government said it would temporarily nationalize the STX France shipyard to stop Italian company Fincantieri taking majority control.

The U.S. government leveled sanctions at 13 high-ranking Venezuelan officials days before a scheduled vote for a constitutional assembly that many believe would deal a death blow to Venezuela’s democracy.

Iran successfully test-launched a rocket designed to carry satellites into space, a move that could further inflame tensions with the U.S. as Congress passes new sanctions.

People close to Trump say he is increasingly frustrated.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sessions "deserves better" from President Trump.

But the attorney general says Trump has the country's best interests in mind.

GOP Senators may introduce "skinny" repeal plan in hopes of passing reform.

The United States is ordering relatives of American diplomats to leave the Venezuelan capital ahead of a polarizing vote planned for Sunday to start rewriting the country's constitution

The House has passed a $788 billion spending bill that combines a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump's controversial border wall with Mexico with a whopping budget increase for the Pentagon

"We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program."

One person was killed and seven were injured.

In a small exhibition of Betye Saar's washboard assemblages, images of mammies are transformed from servants to fighters.

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan, Justin Chang and other reviewers.

Baby Driver Edgar Wright’s exuberant, one-of-a-kind vehicular-action-thriller-musical-romance stars Ansel Elgort as a tinnitus-afflicted, music-loving getaway driver alongside a superb supporting cast that includes...

A man was found dead in a Hollywood motel room Thursday after an hours-long standoff with Los Angeles police in which gunshots were fired and several streets in the area were closed.

The man appeared to have died from a gunshot wound, but it was not clear whether that came from police or was self-inflicted,...

In a desperate bid to salvage their Obamacare overhaul, Senate Republicans were closing in on an unorthodox plan Thursday to vote on a dramatically slimmed-down repeal bill, but only if they received assurances that what they pass will never become law.

Instead they want Senate GOP leaders’ so-called...

Hundreds of people in Michigan came together to say a tear-filled final goodbye to a cancer-stricken dog who served three tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines.

Cena the 10-year-old black Labrador received a hero's farewell Wednesday before being euthanized at the USS LST 393, a museum ship...

As he spiraled into obsession, Stanwood Elkus increasingly traced many of his woes to what he called a botched prostate surgery at the Long Beach VA in 1992.

The Lake Elsinore man, who served briefly in the Marine Corps, blamed the operation for diminished sex drive, incontinence, erectile dysfunction,...

June Foray, who provided voices for Rocky the Flying Squirrel and characters in hundreds of classic cartoons, has died at age 99.

Lori Smith cries every day for her murdered mother, who was gunned down last August.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Inspectors repeatedly looked over a thrill ride while it was assembled at the Ohio State Fair and signed off on it hours before it flew apart in a deadly accident that flung passengers through the air, according to authorities and records released Thursday.

FOXBORO, Mass. — Scenario: Over the course of a few years, 111 kids at an amusement park are taken to first-aid, nearly all complaining of queasy stomachs. Paramedics diagnose 110 with nausea.

TORONTO — Kendrys Morales did his best Aaron Judge impression and Steve Pearce belted a walkoff grand slam in the 10th, powering the Jays to a wild 8-4 win during a wacky matinee on Thursday.

Multiple fatalities have been reported in a crash near the Village of Mount Albert on Thursday, according to the OPP.

The reason Republicans can’t “come together” on a repeal-and-replacement plan for Obamacare is that the American people haven't come together on what they want.

In his well-researched, thoughtful and candid book on the dangers of fundamentalist Islam, The Ideological Path to Submission -- and what we can do about it, Howard Rotberg rhetorically asks this very pertinent question:

News of show comes after it was revealed in May that Zoe was forced to pull out of filming for the final of the show just days after the death of her boyfriend Billy Yates

Jethro Wilson, 26, says his sister Eleanor, 28, denies joining the 'mile high club' with a sixth-former on the way back from a school trip to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva 2015.

Police are investigating the video clip which shows the teenage girl, believed to be aged around 15, get chased by a group who blocked the terrified youngster on a driveway in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Despite his bizarre policies, the most recent of which is that he will ban transgender Americans from serving in the military, one in four still think Donald Trump is terrific, writes MAX HASTINGS.

The BBC star admitted that saying 'I do' to a total stranger at the tender age of 19 was 'tough', vowing that her family will 'move with the times' and choose their own partners.

Southern Railway’s 7.16am train from East Grinstead to London Bridge has been named as the most packed in England and Wales.

About 12,000 people have been evacuated after four days of wildfires in France. Over 200 caravans have also been torched as the blaze spread into Var region. One man said: 'Everything is destroyed'.

Australian tennis coach Nick Philippoussis is expected to enter a plea to child molestation charges when he is arraigned in a Californian court.