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Meghan McCain and her family are mourning the sudden death of her stepbrother, Douglas Shepp McCain, the eldest adopted son of late Sen. John McCain. He was 66. Doug McCain died Wednesday, according to his funeral home obituary, which did not disclose the cause of sudden death.

Screaming, yelling and accusations of self-dealing. That’s how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that’s drawn bipartisan opposition. On his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Texas senator described the meeting as “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.” “Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said. “My guess is there’re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”...

Former Notre Dame offensive lineman Paul Duncan, who played five seasons for the Fighting Irish, died on July 15, the school announced. He was 35 years old.Duncan was on a run in his neighborhood when he went into cardiac arrest, his wife revealed in an Instagram post. “Our prayers go out to the family and friends of Paul Duncan,” read a statement from the Notre Dame football Twitter account. “A great teammate, but more importantly a loving husband and father.”Duncan’s wife, Ellen, said his body will be “donated to people in need of organs and to medical research.”Duncan was a...

Police in Akron, Ohio, unleashed a wave of tear gas on protesters who gathered outside of the city's main courthouse on Sunday night. Several hundred protesters marched in the city in the hours after the Akron Police Department released the bodycam footage showing the shooting death of 25-year-old Jayland Walker. Walker was killed after being shot at least 60 times by Akron cops following a traffic stop on June 27. Riot police used tear gas in response to a protester who was taking down barriers that were set up outside of the police headquarters. Authorities responded by coming out in...

A brawl that erupted between dozens of people onboard a cruise ship was caused by jealousy over a threesome between passengers, according to a witness. A travel agent who was witness to the fracas told Fox News that the punch-up began over allegations of cheating - in particular, an alleged threesome which then upset the participants' respective partners. Video of the fracas depicted a chaotic scene as between 40 and 60 passengers began punching and shoving one another.