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(BARSTOW, Calif.) -- A desperate search is underway in Barstow, California, for a 2-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters Thursday evening, authorities said.Xavier Padilla Aguilera was traveling with his father, Brandon Padilla Aguilera, 26, when their vehicle was swept off a main road in Barstow, California, about 115 miles northeast of Los Angeles, by rushing flood waters around 7:14 p.m., according to Barstow Police.The father and son became […]

Leon Neal/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A federal judge has tossed President Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, calling the complaint "decidedly improper and impermissible." U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday struck the complaint and gave the president's lawyers 28 days to refile their lawsuit. "A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally or […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Days before a memorial service for Charlie Kirk, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed a "National Day of Remembrance" for the conservative influencer after he was killed on Sept. 10.The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution marking Oct. 14, 2025 -- Kirk's birthday -- a "National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk."While on the Senate floor, Sen. Rick Scott, the Florida Republican leading the passage of the […]