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Dolly Parton performs in concert in Tokyo, July 30, 1979. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto) **FILE**

Dolly Parton, country music icon, dead at 80

Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter whose six-decade career made her one of the most recognizable figures in American music, has died, according to an announcement posted Tuesday to her official Instagram account. She was 80.

August 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference, May 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Tetra Tech accused of faking radiation data at San Francisco shipyard, settles for $57 million

Tetra Tech EC Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tetra Tech Inc., paid $57 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fabricated work and falsified data used by the U.S. Department of the Navy to determine whether the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in the San Francisco Bay was free from harmful radiation, the Justice Department announced.

August 25, 2026
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a group portrait in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, that Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow's private jet. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to Crow's lawyer asking about the trip. Wyden is backing an election-year push to tighten the high court's ethics rules. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clarence Thomas rejects idea Black Americans must hold liberal views

CLARENCE THOMAS rejects idea that Black Americans must vote liberal: "When I came to this town, one of the greatest difficulties ... was that there were those who thought that I should think a certain way ... You confuse me with someone who's been in indentured servitude or something."

August 25, 2026
A shopper enters a Target store, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, in Woodbury, Minn. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Target pulls kids’ Halloween costume amid blackface backlash

Target has pulled a children's Halloween costume from sale after social media users said the design evoked blackface and 19th-century minstrel imagery, and the retailer apologized for the "Kids' Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit" following the online backlash.

August 25, 2026
Are handwriting skills worse for young Americans thanks to the amount of technology they're using to communicate with today? (File photo credit: katuSka via Shutterstock)

Gen Z is losing handwriting skills. Is this the end of clear communication?

Handwriting is slowly receding from everyday life among younger generations. At the University of Stavanger in Norway, researchers report a startling figure: after just one year of using only keyboards, 40 percent of students see a decline in how legible and fluid their handwriting is

August 24, 2026
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Tennessee health firm settles false claims case for $2.4 million

Monogram Health Professional Services PC and Monogram Health Inc., collectively known as Monogram Health and headquartered in Tennessee, have agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false diagnosis codes to increase payments under the Medicare Advantage program, the Justice Department announced.

August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice logo is before a news conference, Monday, May 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Philadelphia man charged with underpaying $7M in employment taxes, DOJ says

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has returned a superseding indictment charging Jimmy Fabian of Philadelphia with engaging in a scheme to underpay more than $7 million in employment taxes owed by his staffing business and filing false tax returns for the company, the Justice Department announced

August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference, Monday, May 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Four charged in alleged $12 million Bronx Medicaid fraud scheme, DOJ says

Federal prosecutors unsealed a nine-count indictment charging four members of a Bronx-based racketeering organization known as the "War Room" with participating in a scheme that allegedly generated fake transportation data used to support millions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid claims, according to the Justice Department.

August 24, 2026