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WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama said grieving family members in Orlando pleaded with him Thursday to take steps to prevent further gun carnage. “Our politics have conspired to ma...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Philadelphia has become the second city in the United States to approve a soda tax. In a final vote of 13-4, the Philadelphia City Council on Thursday passed a 1.5-cents-per-o...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Shortly before and during his massacre at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, Omar Mateen vented on Facebook. “America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state,”...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Sen. John McCain said Thursday that President Barack Obama was “directly responsible” for the massacre at the gay nightclub in Orlando. “Barack Obama is dire...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) A federal judge tossed a suit Thursday brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Texas. Texas had argued that the ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) As a family mourns the death of their son, investigators are trying to pinpoint which alligator grabbed the 2-year-old and pulled him into a lagoon near a Walt Disney World ho...

  WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Egyptian government says it has found the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, in several locations. Images taken of...

  Washington (CNN) — Lane Graves, the 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was pulled by an alligator into a lagoon at a Walt Disney World hotel, likely drowned, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings ...

LONDON — (CNN) Prince William is featured on the cover of a leading British gay magazine, which carries his remarks condemning the bullying of LGBT people, the publication announced Wednesday. T...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL — (CNN) An alligator snatched a 2-year-old boy Tuesday night in a lagoon at a Disney hotel near Orlando as his father desperately tried to save him. A frantic overnight sear...