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Germany has a little-used law that criminalizes insulting foreign heads of state. The prosecutors say they are ending their investigation against Jan Boehmermann, citing a lack of evidence.

A new proposed ballot initiative in Spokane, Washington, could prohibit coal and oil companies from transporting their products through the city by rail...

Hundreds of people died as Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center says the hurricane conditions will affect eastern Florida through Friday.

Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson and Rita Dove are just three of the authors on the shortlists for the National Book Awards. The 20 books still in contention for the prizes were unveiled Thursday.

The company has been under scrutiny from federal regulators over its blood-testing technology. Theranos says it will focus on a testing product called miniLab.

The last major hurricane, defined as Category 3 and stronger, to hit the mainland U.S. was Hurricane Wilma, which made landfall in Florida in 2005. Matthew could break that lucky streak.

Hurricane Matthew drowned and battered the island nation on Tuesday. At least 283 people died and, more than 48 hours after the storm made landfall, many of the worst hit areas are still inaccessible.

But they'll have to wait a while. The portion of the $394 million Congress allocated to help pregnant women find out more quickly if they have Zika isn't expected to get to strained labs until 2017.

His critics say that instead of lampooning racist bigotry, the segment embodied it. Fox News' Jesse Watters says he is a political humorist and didn't mean for his report to be taken seriously.

"Medicinal and possibly spiritual or at least ritualistic Cannabis use was a widespread custom among Central Eurasian peoples during the first millennium before the Christian era," the scientists say.