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U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., arrives at the federal courthouse for his trial in Los Angeles, earlier this month. Fortenberry was convicted Thursday on charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser.

Nebraska Rep. Fortenberry says he will resign following conviction for lying to FBI

The Republican congressman is stepping down after he was found guilty this week on charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal campaign contribution from a foreign billionaire.

The UConn Huskies celebrate after defeating the Stanford Cardinal 63-58 during the 2022 NCAA Women's Final Four semifinal game Friday at Target Center in Minneapolis.

27 years to the day: UConn defeats Stanford in the NCAA Women's Final Four

The University of Connecticut knocked out defending champions Stanford, 63-58, Friday night. Earlier in the night, top-seeded Louisville fell to South Carolina, 72-59. The championship game is Sunday.

These second-graders helped shelter pups find their fur-ever homes

A second-grade class wrote persuasive letters on behalf of shelter dogs, urging folks to adopt the animals. So far, the young writers have been successful.

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration's arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing.

The Supreme Court reimposes a death sentence for the Boston bomber

The Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court in Boston that had overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. The 2013 attack killed three people.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks to his wife, Ginny Thomas, a conservative activist, at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Wife of Justice Thomas rebuts claims of conflict of interest

In an interview published Monday, Ginni Thomas said that while she did attend the Jan. 6 rally to protest President Biden's election, she left before Donald Trump took the stage.

Flared natural gas is burned off at a natural gas plant. Methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, can leak from natural gas plants and pipelines.

A satellite finds massive methane leaks from gas pipelines

A satellite has detected massive leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from natural gas plants and pipelines. Most of these releases are deliberate, resulting from sloppy pipeline repairs.

Zaila Avant-garde attends the 2021 ESPY Awards on July 10 in New York City. She says she's enjoyed the traveling since winning the spelling bee.

Zaila Avant-garde Talks About How She Came To Her Spelling Success

Zaila Avant-garde, the first African American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, talked about how she got started in competitive spelling and what she has planned for the future.

Retired Ohio teachers put up a banner during a break in a meeting of the State Teachers Retirement System board meeting in September 2022. Some of the teachers had been coming to board meetings for months to protest the suspension of the COLA in 2017.

Ohio's retired teachers may get cost of living adjustment

It’s been four years since half a million retired teachers in Ohio have gotten cost of living increases from their pension fund. And with inflation on the rise, teachers have howled about how the lack of those increases has been eating into their benefits.

Debris litters the ground surrounding homes, damaged by a tornado in Round Rock, Texas, on Monday.

Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama brace as storm approaches

Southeastern states are in the pathway of a storm system that left widespread damage and some injuries in Texas.

Tests Confirm Lethal Ricin in Senate Office

Authorities confirm that the white powder found Monday in the offices of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is the deadly toxin ricin. Three Senate office buildings have been closed; Senate staffers and Capitol Hill police officers who were near the area where the ricin was discovered Monday have reportedly not been exposed to dangerous levels of the poison. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.

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