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Tessica Brown, known as 'Gorilla Glue Girl,' has launched a hair product line.

Officials with the Great Smoky Mountain National Park have closed Backcountry Campsite 29 in the Cosby section of the park after a 16-year-old was attacked by a bear Friday.

Female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third of all active-duty Army women sexually assaulted in 2018, according to a study.

Border restrictions on nonessential travel with the United States will be extended until July 21, officials said Friday, as Canada works to get a higher percentage of Canadians fully vaccinated.

It’s a little-known contractor, claiming to be an election auditing firm, carrying out a much-disputed exercise in Maricopa County.

Shortly after those tragedies, state police rushed to another freeway shooting where two people were shot and taken to the hospital.

Stuntman Alex Harvill, 28, died Thursday morning while practicing to make an attempt to break his own record for longest dirt to dirt motorcycle ramp jump.

A New Jersey city has a new sculpture of George Floyd outside city hall.

Black Americans are rejoicing after President Joe Biden signed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

Just 21% are very or extremely worried about a COVID-19 infection in their inner circle.

A woman stabbed a girl and a boy at a Dallas home, the Dallas Police Dept. said.

A Maine funeral director’s license and the license of his cremation business have been suspended for 30 days after the Board of Funeral Services found 11 bodies unrefrigerated and decomposing at the business.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky says she expects the delta variant will become the dominant coronavirus strain in the United States. The delta variant, first detected in India, has become dominant in Britain.

While Jack Phillips said he could not make the cake because of its message, Jones said the case was about a refusal to sell a product, not compelled speech.

Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, but the White House has been mostly silent.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his government to be prepared for both dialogue and confrontation with the Biden administration — but more for confrontation, state media reported Friday, days after the United States and others urged the North to abandon its nuclear program and return to talks.

A stray dog found received a much needed transformation after he was found with so much matted hair that he was unable to walk.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is on the brink of success in her yearslong campaign to get sexual assault cases removed from the military chain of command.

Frank Bonner, who played a brash salesman with a love of flashy plaid suits on the TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died.

One person was killed, three wounded and nine others injured in reported drive-by shootings over a 90-minute span Thursday in three cities west of Phoenix, authorities said.

It was used in a federal case against Thomas Webster, identified by prosecutors as the man wearing a red and black jacket in the video holding a flagpole and yelling obscenities at the officers.

President Biden signed the measure into law Thursday ahead of Saturday's holiday.

Janet Malcolm’s death was confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson for The New Yorker, where Malcolm was a longtime staff writer.

The popular Lynyrd Skynyrd tune played for seven hours on repeat from Illinois to Alabama.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say heavy rainfall and flooding will likely be the most significant hazard, with the storm reaching the coast beginning on Friday.

It’s the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.

The new four-year American Women Quarters Program celebrates women’s accomplishments and contributions to the United States’ development and history.

While transparency is imperative throughout the election process and monitors are necessary, political parties must do a better job of vetting and training their monitors and explaining exactly what their role is, Jones wrote.

The cat arrived at the facility last week when his owner had to go into assisted living and Sammy could not go with them.