Spain’s acting center-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lost July’s national election but now has a shot at returning to power after the leader of the country’s conservatives failed for a second time Friday to get parliament’s support for a new government. In a vote in the Congress of Deputies in […]

With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don’t bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests. Social media users have been publishing footage of the insects crawling around in high-speed trains and the Paris metro, […]

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday remained noncommittal on a strategy to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gases after a task force the Democrat appointed came to an uncertain conclusion over how to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt carbon pricing over power plant emissions. The task force sprang […]

Former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek was sentenced to 72 months in prison for transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Friday.  Meek, who had worked for ABC News for nearly ten years until an investigation into his possession of child porn […]

A Georgia lawmaker went off at the government funding holdout members of the Republican Party as well as the House Democrats who vote in line with the GOP rebels. Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott torched the “Chaos Caucus” of the House Republicans that threatened to hold up the stopgap funding […]

One of three former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices asked to review possible impeachment of a current justice refused to tell a judge Friday who else was looking into that question. Former Justice David Prosser called a lawsuit alleging violations of the state open meetings law “frivolous,” saying those looking into […]

A pink front door has sparked a dramatic reaction from a local mail delivery person.  Markie Mullins and her boyfriend Milo Birk live in Detroit, Michigan — and recently redid the front door of their home to something more “lively.” Mullins is a 31-year-old astrologer who said she’s wanted to […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., went after Republican House colleague Tony Gonzales after he visited the southern border with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.  “What’s funny about this photo? The House is holding important votes in DC tonight, people are scrambling to avoid a shutdown, but this Republican Congressman decided to skip […]

A woman was arrested after her infant’s skeletal remains were found hidden in a suitcase inside a doghouse, police said. Jessica Lynn Weeks was charged Sept. 22, months after her baby’s remains were found. The Bannock Sheriff’s Department in Idaho was tipped off June 5 a “deceased infant [was] possibly […]

The Biden administration was heavily criticized by all sides Friday after it proposed historic restrictions on future offshore oil and gas leasing. The Department of the Interior published its proposed five-year plan for future oil and gas leasing in federal waters through 2029. Under the plan, the federal government would […]