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Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz told a crowd in Tampa that "nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb," launching him into an online battle with a teenage activist.

In a takeover that would create the nation's 5th largest airline, JetBlue won a bidding war for ultra low cost carrier Spirit Airlines. Federal antitrust regulators will have the final say.

The Georgia Guidestones monument has always attracted outlandish theories, but their destruction in a recent bombing has led community members to grapple with the impact of conspiracies.

Rescuers plucked people off rooftops amid fast-rising water Thursday in central Appalachia, where rains unleashed what Kentucky's governor called some of the worst flooding in the state's history.

The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit's attempt to merge with Frontier Airlines fell apart. The deal still needs approval from antitrust regulators.

Gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling the weapons over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity.

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery,