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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the nation's longest-serving Republican speaker, was sentenced to 15 months in prison last month for violating federal bank laws in sending hush money to sexual abuse victims. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Ex-House speaker Hastert won’t appeal 15-month prison sentence

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 7:24 pm

The terror group has developed a mobile application dubbed "Huroof," which means alphabet or letters in Arabic, to teach children the language. (iStock photo)

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Islamic State launches mobile app for kids

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 5:56 pm

Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed for the 1985 murder of Mobile police officer Julius Schulte. (Alabama Department of Corrections, via AP, File)

Appeals court halts execution of Alabama cop killer

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 5:22 pm

"What I've decided to do is not cower," Zimmerman told Fox35 News in Orlando Wednesday night when discussing why he was auctioning off the gun. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

Listing for George Zimmerman’s gun taken down

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 4:26 pm

Liberal group ties McCain, Flake to Trump in Arizona

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 3:32 pm

Walden, a congressman from Oregon, became the chair of the NRCC in 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

NRCC Chairman Greg Walden is backing Trump

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 3:31 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his controversial proposal to ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. is "just a suggestion." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Trump: Muslim ban ‘just a suggestion’

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 1:06 pm

Miami's Republican mayor said that he will not vote for Donald Trump in the November general election. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Miami’s Republican mayor won’t vote for Trump

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 12:26 pm

George Zimmerman calls the firearm, a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm, a "piece of American history," in the item description on gunbroker.com, an online auction website for firearms. (Screen shot)

George Zimmerman auctioning off gun used to kill Trayvon Martin

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 3:20 am

People working with The Robin Hood Foundation, an organization that helps the poor, approach a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk in an effort to count and conduct a brief survey of the homeless on the streets of New York early Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Hundreds of people fanned out across the city to conduct the survey just after midnight. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Report: Homelessness on the rise in D.C.

Kelly Cohen · May 11, 2016 8:46 pm

Donald Trump took aim at Sen. Elizabeth Warren Friday after she called him a "thin-skinned, racist bully." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Warren to Trump: You won’t ‘shut us up’

Kelly Cohen · May 11, 2016 7:21 pm

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce will use its Select Investigative Panel to investigate late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

House panel issues subpoenas in probe of late-term abortionist

Kelly Cohen · May 11, 2016 6:21 pm