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A federal court in New York ordered lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell to search her emails for dozens of lewd terms and high-profile names in the lawsuit brought by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, court records show. Amid some back-and-forth between lawyers for both sides, Giuffre’s team zeroed in on key …

The U.S. Virgin Islands will soon build its first artificial reef to protect its coasts and help the U.S. territory become more resilient ahead of future storms, officials announced Thursday. The 18-foot by 12-foot reef will be installed near the coast around St. Thomas and is expected to be completed …

FORT WORTH, Texas – A natural gas extraction company controlled by energy giant Exxon Mobil sought to prove Wednesday that it is not to blame for a recent rash of small earthquakes in North Texas, telling a powerful state agency that it believes the earthquakes occurred naturally. XTO Energy submitted …

They are described as the ‘worst of the worst.’ Before dawn in northern Virginia, after days of heavy surveillance, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operation Team is taking a 42-year-old man from el Salvador into custody. The man, a green card holder, is eligible for deportation because he was …

Residents in Virginia’s Fairfax County should watch for homemade chemical bombs placed in residential mailboxes or on front lawns, authorities say. Anthony Barrero, battalion chief of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department’s Fire and Hazardous Material Investigative Services unit, said 11 such crude devices have been found in Reston, …

PORTLAND, Ore. – For more than a decade, the federal government spent $700 million on habitat improvements in the Columbia River Basin. Experts say it’s likely the largest, most intensive, and most expensive habitat restoration program in the nation. It’s the centerpiece in a federal management plan to relieve the …

BEIJING – China says racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, in a report intended as a counterpoint to U.S. criticisms of China’s own human rights record. The report issued Friday by the Cabinet-level State Council Information Office cited the incident in Ferguson, Missouri, and other …

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A Florida teenager died after falling from a high ropes course at a camp on the South Carolina-North Carolina border, officials said Tuesday. Olivia Paige Grimes, 16, of Lakeland, Florida, died about 6 p.m. Monday after falling out of a zip line swing at Carolina Point Camp …

HONOLULU – The military plans to exhume more caskets containing the unidentified remains of USS Oklahoma crew members killed in the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency plan to dig up the remains Monday. They are …

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Two northern Kentucky women have sued a county sheriff and one of his school resource officers for placing their two disabled elementary school children in handcuffs. The 8-year-old boy and the 9-year-old girl and their mothers are identified in the lawsuit only by their initials. The children …