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iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — Federal data released on Friday reveals that California’s gross domestic product surpassed that of the United Kingdom, making it the world’s fifth-largest economy.The Los Angeles Times reports California’s GDP grew by $127 [Read More…]

Colorado State University(FORT COLLINS, Colo.) — Two Native American teenage brothers visiting their “dream school” were questioned and patted down by campus police — after a suspicious parent who found them “creepy” called 911, according [Read More…]

Hulton Deutsch/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Attention Albert Einstein fans: The chance to own a piece of the famous physicist’s early life is coming to a close next week. Online bidding for a collection of Einstein’s [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — Police have arrested hundreds of demonstrators at opposition rallies across Russia on Saturday that are aimed at protesting Vladimir Putin, two days ahead of his inauguration as president for a fourth term. Thousands [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A five-day spate of severe weather that brought 38 reported tornadoes in six states wrapped up on Friday with more than 100 reports of severe winds across the Northeast. Hundreds of [Read More…]

Giles Clarke/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — A group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students released a music video for their song Shine on Friday. The video was filmed entirely at the high school, where a [Read More…]

Carnival Cruises(NEW ORLEANS) — Cruise ship passengers likely prefer to do their swimming once they’re off the boat. But one group of passengers got an unwelcome surprise on Thursday when a water line break on [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) — A police officer was shot and killed in a shootout with a homicide suspect in Indiana Friday evening. The suspect was also killed in the exchange, police said. The shooting occurred [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SEOUL) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in will be visiting the White House later this month ahead of the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The White House [Read More…]

Zehbrauskas/UNICEF(WASHINGTON) — After nearly two decades, the Trump administration is ending special immigration status for around 86,000 Hondurans who live in the U.S. – status granted following Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Critics called the decision [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — The Florida woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby hours after birth apologized to the child’s biological family for the first time at a sentencing hearing Friday. Gloria Williams, who faces [Read More…]

Ahmed Al Jarban /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has suspended aid to the Syrian humanitarian group known as the White Helmets, the State Department confirmed to ABC News. The money is part of a [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — More than 100 local and federal officials are combing parts of Chicago as authorities try to track down the people responsible for shooting at undercover agents, injuring one, in the early morning hours [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SEOUL) — The well-choreographed production of last week’s promising summit between North and South Korea appears to have given a boost to public approval ratings for the countries’ two leaders among South Koreans. South Korean [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — With T-Mobile and Sprint opting to merge and promising lower prices, wireless wars are starting to heat up — but consumers don’t have to wait to start saving on their wireless bills, [Read More…]

NASA(NEW YORK) — InSight will do more than light up the skies over California when it launches Saturday morning — it will launch on a daring mission to find out if Mars has quakes and [Read More…]

Facebook(DUBLIN) — Facebook’s latest effort to prevent the spread of misinformation by groups such as the Russians, who according to the FBI meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is getting mixed reviews during a [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — Authorities are searching for a “person of interest” after a woman was found stabbed to death outside an upscale shopping mall in Southern California. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(KANSAS CITY, Kan.) — Faith-based agencies in Kansas will likely be allowed to provide adoption or foster care services for the state even if they refuse to place children in homes that conflict with their [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) — Students are headed back to the classroom after teachers ended their six-day walkout in Arizona, the latest state to join a nationwide wave calling for better pay and more school funding. On Friday [Read More…]