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FILE - FOX Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo, right, arrives at the White House, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Defamation case against Fox News highlights role of its hosts in promoting 2020 election falsehoods

6:54 PM on Thursday, August 21

A $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage after the 2020 presidential election focuses on the roles of hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs in spreading false stories about fraud in Democrat Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md., early Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, from a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Here's where all the legal cases against Trump stand since his return to the White House

5:26 PM on Thursday, August 21

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom

Energy Secretary Chris Wright walks past reporters after doing an interview at the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere

4:09 PM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs

Federal officials to take over inspections when troubled Boar's Head plant reopens

3:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal inspectors will assume direct oversight of a Boar's Head deli meat plant when it reopens after an deadly listeria outbreak

Privacy and civil rights groups urge US colleges to end campus surveillance to protect protesters

3:05 PM on Thursday, August 21

A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups is calling on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection in order to protect student protesters from government retaliation

Harjinder Singh is escorted onto an airplane by Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and law enforcement on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Stockton, Calif. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy)

Fatal Florida crash fuels immigration fight between DeSantis and Newsom

2:25 PM on Thursday, August 21

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida

FILE - Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, speaks before a vote for new calendar lineup for the early stages of the party's presidential nominating contests during the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting, Feb. 4, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iowa Democrats consider bringing back lead off caucuses, even if it means going 'rogue' in 2028

1:39 PM on Thursday, August 21

Iowa’s state party officials say it was a mistake that the party’s 2024 nominating calendar forced them to ditch the five-decade, first-in-the-nation caucus where community members publicly signal their support for a candidate

Proposed data center prompts Tucson to regulate large water users, require conservation

12:38 PM on Thursday, August 21

A proposal to build a water-guzzling data center near Tucson, Arizona, led the city to put some regulations on water use

FILE - Former President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump

10:43 AM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is declaring victory after an appeals court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against him

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adam's Chief of Staff Ingrid Lewis-Martin appears for arraignment on corruption charges in Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in New York. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Former top aide to NYC mayor among 7 facing new charges in City Hall corruption probe

10:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among seven people facing new charges in the corruption investigation that has swirled around City Hall for two years

FILE - Aiden Lougee, center left, kisses his boyfriend, Rex Resa, seen between signs held by opponents to gay marriage outside of the courthouse after a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can

7:16 AM on Thursday, August 21

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice

FILE -People wade into the waters of Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake, Nov. 25, 2024, in Entebbe, Uganda. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Uganda agrees to take deported migrants from US if they don't have criminal records

3:20 AM on Thursday, August 21

Uganda's foreign ministry says the African country has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors

Alaska resident Mark Warren rides the a new Ural motorcycle he received as a gift from the Russian government in Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, after Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the state for a summit meeting with U.S. President Trump. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Alaska man gifted $22,000 motorcycle by Russian government after viral interview

5:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage

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