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President Donald Trump ratcheted up his defenses on Thursday, likening those who provided information to the whistleblower to spies, according to reports, and tweeting that “our country is at stake” on the day the complaint against the president was made public. Trump, according to multiple media outlets, told a private group at a midtown hotel Thursday morning that the people...

A medical examiner in Texas has ruled that Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol.

The bizarre blue-striped building on Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island was supposed to be a music pavilion with a strikingly different design, according to permit records viewed by NBC News. The building, shaped like a giant box and initially topped with a gold dome, has fueled rampant speculation and online conspiracy theories, NBC News reported. Drawings supplied by Epstein’s architects...

A private funeral service was held Monday for Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who was found dead in his hotel room earlier this month in Southlake, Texas.

A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas were laid to their final rest Monday, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the Rio Grande circled the globe. About 200 relatives and friends followed a hearse bearing the bodies of Óscar Martínez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria inside La Bermeja municipal...

Steven Spielberg, a child of the 1950s, grew up with stirring Hollywood dramas about the sacrifices of World War II. But with “Saving Private Ryan,” the Oscar-winning director set out to make a war film unlike any that he — or audiences around the world, for that matter — had ever seen. “Saving Private Ryan,” a no-holds-barred epic about D-Day...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, according to court documents filed Thursday. Sources close to the company told CNBC the company was also expecting to be sued, though Tesla was not named as a defendant in the complaint. Shares of the automaker fell roughly 11 percent in extended trading Thursday. The...

An elite West Village private school that has been separating students into homerooms by race for the past year will end the policy amid furor from parents who only recently learned about it.

After a soldier lost her left ear in a car crash, Army surgeons were able to grow a new ear in her forearm and transplant it onto her head.

A Utah woman who told police Tom Sizemore groped her at a photo shoot when she was 11 is suing the actor. The lawsuit filed Monday says the 2003 incident during production of the “Born Killers” movie left her with post-traumatic stress and drug and alcohol addiction. The lawsuit seeks at least $3 million in damages.

Actor Tom Sizemore has addressed recent allegations that he groped an 11-year-old Utah girl during a 2003 photo shoot.

A 52-year-old woman walked into a police station Thursday afternoon in west suburban Riverside, asked for help getting drugs back from her boyfriend and then battered the officer who wouldn’t assist her.

Sorry, paparazzi. Celebrities who are sick of being stalked by photographers at Los Angeles International Airport can now find some privacy — not to mention luxury — at a new terminal.

Tom Hanks plays an American lawyer who is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union. Directed by Steven Spielberg, “Bridge of Spies” is in theaters October 16.

A rare letter written by the poet Walt Whitman for a wounded Civil War soldier has been found in the National Archives. The Washington Post reports it was discovered last month by an Archives volunteer on a team preparing Civil War widows’ pension files to be digitized and placed online. It’s one of only three known to exist. “It doesn’t...

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s latest collaboration, “Bridge of Spies,” puts them in a league with Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart – and in a league of their own.

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are marking their fourth wedding anniversary while waiting for the birth of their second child.