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Early this year, having lost their majority in the November election, Senate Democrats put up a fight over a number of President Trump’s Cabinet picks. But Marco Rubio wasn’t one of them. The Senate ...

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

Perry Bamonte, who was a guitarist and keyboardist with The Cure, died at the age of 65, per a post on the band's site that was published on Friday. The cause of death for Bamonte? Per the ...

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez raised the prospect of dialogue after defiant remarks from Venezuelan officials. President Trump suggested the U.S. could take action against other countries, ...

Almost 40 years ago, a Cuban immigrant was arrested and convicted of distributing $15 million worth of cocaine as part of a major drug ring operating out of South Florida. The man stored kilos of ...

The San Francisco Giants already had parted with two young players pegged at various times to be big parts of the team's future, and Wednesday, both Wade Meckler and Marco Luciano found new homes. The ...