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A transgender teen says his former high school is refusing to update the gender listed on his transcript. More>>
The man who killed five co-workers at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant took a gun he wasn't allowed to have to a job he must have known he was about to lose. More>>
Amazon decision to walk away from New York City could scare off other tech companies. More>>
Amazon ditches New York as location for new headquarters. More>>
Amazon's breakup with New York was still fresh when other cities started sending their own valentines to the online giant. More>>
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state's consumers should get a piece of the billions of dollars that technology companies make off the personal data they collect. More>>
Jussie Smollett developments leave some baffled, others outraged on social media. More>>
Chicago police and representatives for Jussie Smollett are keeping quiet about the investigation into a reported attack on the "Empire" actor. More>>
Hearing by state Elections Board could reveal whether the nation's last undecided congressional election was either tainted by so much ballot tampering that a winner could not be declared. More>>
Emergency management officials in South Carolina say they are preparing both for more massive floods like the state has seen in three of the past four years and smaller, but still destructive deluges. More>>
Authorities warn that mudslides are possible even after a damaging storm moved through California, trapping people in floodwaters, triggering a debris flow that destroyed homes, and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year. More>>
The victims of disgruntled employee who opened fire at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers ranging from an intern to a plant manager. More>>
A Los Angeles federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from favoring police departments that cooperate with immigration officials when issuing some law enforcement grants. More>>
The family and friends of a Utah woman who spent nearly two years pushing to get her son freed from a Venezuelan jail was remembered for her fearlessness and determination at her funeral Saturday. More>>
Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison in Massachusetts. More>>
Drums, dragons and dancers are parading through New York's Chinatown to ring in the Year of the Pig. More>>
Authorities say a 34-year-old man suspected of killing 4 people inside a Mississippi home during a hostage standoff has died at a hospital. More>>
Federal wildlife officials say the world's oldest known wild bird has become a mother again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. More>>
Scientists find that a NASA astronaut who spent nearly a year in space had his immune system go on high alert. More>>
Opportunity Lost: NASA rover finally bites the dust on Mars after an unexpected 15 years. More>>
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says El Nino is back, but it is weak. More>>
When Amazon chose the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens to build a new campus, New York's top brass saw it as a major coup but what they didn't anticipate was the deal's eventual unraveling. More>>
Attorneys for Jussie Smollett say there is no truth to reports that the "Empire" actor played a role in the assault on him. More>>
Chicago police say "the trajectory of the investigation" into the reported attack on Jussie Smollett has shifted. More>>
Lee Radziwill, the stylish jet setter and socialite who made friends worldwide even as she bonded and competed with her older sister Jacqueline Kennedy, has died. More>>
Attorney Gloria Allred tells The Associated Press she has contacted law enforcement about concerns one of her clients may be the person in a VHS tape purportedly showing R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl. More>>
A federal judge says a handful of former Mississippi convicts who are suing to have their voting rights restored can represent everyone who falls into that category. More>>
A federal judge has issued a gag order in the case of Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone. More>>
Felony drug charges have been filed against a California tech mogul and Marsy's Law victim rights advocate arrested in August with what police said were briefcases full of drugs in a Las Vegas Strip hotel. More>>
Police say the fired worker who killed five people at a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois, was able to buy the gun he used because an initial background check didn't catch that he had a prior felony conviction in Mississippi. More>>
The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage says he didn't talk about his British citizenship before because he didn't want to get deported. More>>
The union representing 3,000 teachers in Oakland announces strike starting Thursday. More>>
The victims of disgruntled employee who opened fire at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers ranging from an intern to a plant manager. More>>
Police say a 15-year employee being fired from a manufacturing company opened fire in its suburban Chicago plant, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot. More>>
Chicago police have released without charges two Nigerian brothers arrested on suspicion of assaulting "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett. More>>
A federal judge in Montana has largely kept in place an injunction that blocks a Canadian company from performing preliminary work on the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline. More>>
Alaska is about 3,000 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, but the state's new Republican governor is offering President Donald Trump the use of the Alaska National Guard to patrol it, the Anchorage Daily News reports. More>>
Chaos broke out during a performance of the musical "Hamilton" at San Francisco's Orpheum theater after audience members mistook a medical emergency for a shooting. More>>
Parents of Mormon missionaries will be able to hear their children's voices a lot more often under new rules announced Friday that allow the proselytizing youngsters to call home every week instead of only twice a year. More>>
Once a dirty word in Chicago, 'reform' is now on the lips of the city's 14 mayoral candidates. More>>
Memory and thinking skills naturally slow with age but now scientists are finding clues that depression might worsen the decline. More>>
Medicare ambulance rides could include option of going to urgent care or doctor's office. More>>
Health officials say the flu vaccine is doing a relatively good job protecting Americans this winter. More>>
The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent. More>>
An attorney for the state of California says the process behind Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' decision to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census was rotten to its core. More>>
A shooter has been apprehended after opening fire in an industrial park in in Aurora, Illinois. More>>
Chicago police says local media reports that allege the attack against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was a hoax are unconfirmed. More>>
A suburban Chicago school district is keeping its students in classrooms as police investigate an active shooter situation at an industrial park in Aurora. More>>
California's governor and attorney general and say they will sue President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. More>>
A federal judge says the 6-year-old daughter of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez missed a 2014 deadline to opt out of the $1 billion concussion settlement and can't separately sue the league over his diagnosis of a degenerative brain disease. More>>
A member of Portland's city council said she is not shocked by a newspaper report that the commander for the police rapid response team exchanged friendly text messages with a leader of far-right protests that have rocked the city. More>>
The union representing teachers in Oakland, California, says it will make an announcement Saturday about a potential strike, a day after a neutral fact-finding report was to be issued. More>>
Texas newspapers report the U.S. government has suddenly stopped force-feeding immigrants on a hunger strike inside an El Paso immigration detention center. More>>
Houston's police chief says a lead investigator lied in an affidavit justifying a drug raid on a home in which two residents were killed and four officers were wounded during a gun battle. More>>
A South Carolina mother is accusing a federally funded foster agency of not working with her because she's Catholic. More>>
There's snow plow rage in Spokane after storms dropped 21 inches of snow so far in February. More>>
The new leader of the nation's largest sheriff's department is further limiting when inmates in Los Angeles County jails can be transferred to U.S. authorities for deportation. More>>
Protesters in Alaska urged federal officials to keep oil rigs out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge despite a federal law requiring lease sales. More>>
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre a year later: Renewed national debate on guns and school safety, and a time to remember the victims. More>>
Digital ad campaign seeks to defend white police officer charged in fatal shooting of armed black man in Tennessee. More>>
Woman who accused Democratic Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of raping her while they were students at Duke University in 2000 is an intensely private single mother. More>>
Attorney Michael Avenatti says he has new video evidence of singer R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl. More>>
President Donald Trump's company is scrapping plans for two new hotel chains announced two years ago, casting blame in part on a hostile political environment. More>>
Fitting for a man who saw so much darkness in the world, Lyndon LaRouche died on the fringes this week, his name little known to anyone under 50, his death rumored online a day before mainstream outlets confirmed it. More>>
A Colorado runner who survived a mountain lion attack says he wrestled the young animal to the ground and jammed his foot onto its neck to suffocate it to death. More>>
US-based Roman Catholic bishops are participating in a weeklong retreat near Chicago. More>>
The Senate has confirmed William Barr to be attorney general, placing the veteran government official and lawyer atop the Justice Department as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates Russian interference in the 2016 election. More>>
Two California officials want the most populous state to take out insurance to help cover taxpayers' costs in bad wildfire seasons. More>>
More than a year after the start of marijuana sales in California, no money has been allocated for substance abuse programs and education for youth. More>>
Illinois legislators have sent Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker one of his top campaign promises, a gradual hike in the statewide minimum wage that would more than double the standard in most of its Midwestern neighbors require. More>>
A year after Parkland, the K-12 experience in Florida has been reshaped. More>>
Make El Chapo pay for a wall? That may be a tall order, especially since officials can't say for sure how much Joaquin Guzman may still have from his drug smuggling empire or they intend to get their hands on it. More>>
Denver teachers are set to extend their strike into a third day after negotiations with district leaders ended Tuesday night without a deal. More>>
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco to block the Trump administration from returning asylum seekers to Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. More>>
Heavy rain is again raising the risk of mudslides in Southern California burn areas where evacuations are ordered during a powerful storm that flooded roads and toppled trees further north. More>>
The producer of the controversial 1984 abortion film "The Silent Scream" has died at age 94. Beverly Cielnicky, president of Crusade For Life, tells The Associated Press that Donald S. Smith died Jan. 30 in Wenatchee, Washington. More>>
A shot has been fired on the grounds of a suburban Albuquerque high school on the anniversary of the Parkland, Florida high school massacre but police say no one was injured and a suspect was taken into custody. More>>
The immigration spending Congressional leaders on Thursday released details of a compromise on border and immigration enforcement that gives President Donald Trump just a sliver of the money he wanted for his border wall with Mexico. More>>
Kansas abortion opponents are as eager as ever to impose new restrictions but aren't sure of their options because the state's legal climate is uncertain. More>>
The wife of a white Chicago police officer who fatally shot black teenager Laquan McDonald says her husband has been assaulted by inmates in his cell at a Connecticut prison. More>>
TVA votes to close Kentucky coal-fired power plant over objections from President Trump, state GOP leaders. More>>
A family-run weather company, whose former CEO is President Donald Trump's nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has agreed to pay $290,000 after an agency found the company subjected female employees to sexual harassment. More>>
A U.S. judge who has berated Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for its role in wildfires in California is demanding more answers from the utility. More>>
Leaky pipes have left about 100,000 customers in Ohio under a boil-water advisory. More>>
Texas' election chief is apologizing over releasing a botched list of 95,000 voters whose citizenship was called into question before being fully vetted. More>>
The winner of a $1.54 billion lottery jackpot in South Carolina has yet to come forward, and that could make the state a big loser too. More>>
Task force finds counseling at-risk pregnant women, new mothers offers a chance at preventing perinatal depression. More>>
Some students around the country are marking the anniversary of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, with moments of silence or somber vigils while others aim to find threads of positivity in the fabric of tragedy. More>>
Denver's teachers have gone on strike over pay, but the fight isn't that simple. More>>
A large study shows cigarette smoking rates for U.S. kids have stopped falling, and health officials believe youth vaping is responsible. More>>
Young teachers are caught up in a possible strike in Oakland, California, that's giving new life to the long-simmering tension between traditional public schools and the education reform program Teach for America. More>>
Strangers' suspicions rankle parents whose children have different complexions. More>>
Anne Firor Scott, a prize-winning historian and esteemed professor of Southern studies, has died at age 97. More>>
Political extremist, perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche Jr. dies at 96. More>>
The FBI has released sketches of women and other information on a string of unsolved cold-case homicides that investigators say a serial killer admitted to carrying out. More>>
Planned Parenthood is making an unusual legal demand to join California's criminal prosecution of two anti-abortion activists charged with invasion of privacy for secretly making videos as they tried to buy fetal material from the organization. More>>
The communities and families terrorized by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre will spend the anniversary quietly remembering the 14 students and three staff members who lost their lives. More>>
The director of an international center at the University of Nevada in Reno is the latest woman to accuse Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias of sexual misconduct. More>>
Odds still favor the eventual construction of Barack Obama's $500 million presidential museum and library in a park along Chicago's lakeshore. More>>
Utah has passed sweeping changes to a voter-approved Medicaid expansion, slashing the number of people covered and adding work requirements that the Trump administration is expected to approve. More>>
An Iowa hotel has settled a lawsuit with a New Jersey woman who was raped and battered after the front desk gave the attacker her room key. More>>
The three Deitsch siblings have devoted long hours to the March for Our Lives movement since the Parkland school shooting last year. More>>
Longtime director of international center at the University of Nevada in Reno is the latest woman to accuse Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias of sexual misconduct. More>>
Bill and Melinda Gates are pushing back against a new wave of criticism about whether billionaire philanthropy is a force for good. More>>
College professor Vanessa Tyson avoided talking directly about her accusation that Virginia's lieutenant governor sexually assaulted her, but she wasn't shy about publicly discussing her research and thoughts on the growing number of women reporting abuse. More>>
Lawyers for rapper 21 Savage say he has been granted bond for release from federal immigration custody. More>>
President Donald Trump's vow to save the coal industry will be tested this week when a utility board he appoints weighs whether to close a coal-fired power plant in Kentucky whose suppliers include a mine owned by one of his campaign donors. More>>
Virginia's two Catholic dioceses publish list of 58 priests credibly accused of sexually abusing minors, joinin other dioceses around the country in answering calls to make those names public. More>>
Lawmakers in at least seven states have introduced legislation to address the unsolved deaths and disappearances of numerous Native American women and girls. More>>
New York City police say two officers have been shot during an apparent armed robbery. More>>
A 2-time escapee from Mexican prisons, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will likely be sentenced to the ADX Supermax in Florence, Colorado, the most secure prison ever constructed in the United States. More>>
Dozens of Dallas-area schools are among a growing number around the world that are teaching children how to spot the signs of depression in themselves and others. More>>
A former West Virginia Supreme Court justice has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for using his office for his own benefit and lying to investigators. More>>
Four malnourished children are in foster care after authorities found two locked in a dog cage and two more smeared with feces in a North Texas barn. More>>
Roses are red _ and bug-free _ after being inspected at Miami International Airport, where 90 percent of cut flowers imported into the U.S. every year are examined. More>>
An atmospheric river aimed at California and southern Oregon is bringing a new round of stormy weather to the West. More>>
The Illinois House could vote on a plan this week to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but inflation will largely negate the impact for low-income workers by the time the pay floor reaches that level in 2025. More>>
A former Associated Press correspondent and bureau chief who reported the news that President John F. Kennedy's assassin had been killed is dead at age 82. More>>
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named new leaders to top state posts in water, transportation and education policy. More>>
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly says he's running to finish John McCain's term in the U.S. SenateRetired astronaut Mark Kelly says he's running to finish John McCain's term in the U.S. Senate. More>>
Several of the nation's largest universities receive more sexual assault complaints from off-campus than from school property, but their obligation to address off-campus cases could be dramatically reduced under a federal proposal. More>>
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says borrowers are behind in their auto loan payments in numbers not seen since delinquencies peaked at the end of 2010. More>>
A federal grand jury has indicted a former Honolulu prosecutor and her brother on drug distribution charges. More>>
Arizona is contesting a long-term care facility's decision to shut down the unit where an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth. More>>
Gucci's creative director breaks silence over 'blackface' sweater, says racism never his intention. More>>
NASA trying one last time to contact its silent Mars rover Opportunity before calling it quits. More>>
Former Vice President Joe Biden will offer remarks at the funeral of John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in US history. More>>
Hundreds of Teach for America alumni are slamming the teacher placement program for telling members to cross the picket line during a potential teachers strike in Oakland, California, or risk losing thousands of dollars at the end of their service. More>>
Sheriff's deputies discovered four malnourished children, including two locked inside a dog cage, when they responded to a domestic disturbance at a North Texas home. More>>
Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been convicted of drug trafficking in a U.S. trial that could keep him in prison for life. More>>
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax is at least the seventh statewide elected official to be publicly accused of sexual misconduct over the last two years. More>>
A California college professor who has accused Virginia's lieutenant governor of sexual assault will appear at a long-planned academic symposium on that very subject at Stanford University. More>>
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is preparing to deliver his first State of the State address a day after declaring he wouldn't participate in the Trump administration's "political theater" over border security. More>>
New York City police say a detective was killed by friendly fire while responding to a report of an armed robbery. More>>
Attorneys for women who said they were sexually abused by a longtime gynecologist at the University of Southern California say a $215 million settlement includes groundbreaking campus reforms. More>>
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pulls plug on plan for high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, says it will take too long and cost too much. More>>
Denver school leaders and teachers are set to resume negotiations to end a strike over pay. More>>
San Diego County will sue the Trump administration over widespread releases of asylum-seeking families. More>>
As some of Virginia's white political leaders grapple with long-delayed fallout from having worn blackface years ago, others who once donned blackface have been re-examining old memories of the behavior. More>>
Are you so sure that Lady Gaga will win an Oscar for her performance in a "Star is Born" that you'd be willing to bet on it. More>>
Jurors at the U.S. trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman have reached a verdict in their 6th day of deliberations. More>>
The rape of an incapacitated woman is driving Arizona to catch up to 10 states with laws or regulations governing electronic monitoring and other technology aimed at deterring abuse inside long-term care facilities. More>>
The Illinois House could vote on a plan this week to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but inflation will largely negate the impact for low-income workers by the time the pay floor reaches that level in 2025. More>>
As Trump tells Texas supports he's still going to build wall, O'Rourke rallies those against it. More>>
President Donald Trump is planning a new parade, possibly to replace a military procession he had ordered up for downtown Washington that was scuttled due to cost. More>>
The Illinois House could vote on a plan this week to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but inflation will largely negate the impact for low-income workers by the time the pay floor reaches that level in 2025. More>>
The Illinois House could vote on a plan this week to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but inflation will largely negate the impact for low-income workers by the time the pay floor reaches that level in 2025. More>>
The Illinois House could vote on a plan this week to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but inflation will largely negate the impact for low-income workers by the time the pay floor reaches that level in 2025. More>>
Scientists hid a tiny shot inside a pill, a gadget inspired by a tortoise shell that can inject medicines like insulin from inside the stomach. More>>
Lawyers for 21 Savage say the rapper has been released from federal immigration custody on bond. More>>
It's been four decades since the Iranian Revolution overthrew the shah, prompting tens of thousands of people to make their lives in the United States. More>>
Officials at a police department in metro Phoenix defended its officers who were captured on a body-camera video repeatedly shooting a handcuffed man with a stun during an encounter in a motel parking lot. More>>
The nonprofit National Butterfly Center has asked a federal judge to stop border wall activity on its property as the Trump administration gears up to build new barriers in South Texas and may soon win funding for more. More>>
Tentative budget agreement to keep government operating gives Trump far less money than he sought for border wall. More>>
Virginia lawmakers face the unprecedented prospect of impeachment as they struggle to address revelations of past racist behavior and allegations of sexual assault in the highest levels of power. More>>
NASA and SpaceX are now aiming for a March debut of 1st commercial astronaut capsule. More>>
With its CEO engulfed in personal drama, Amazon is carrying on as usual. More>>
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar has apologized for a recent Twitter post that some said Democratic leadership said was anti-Semitic. More>>
Illinois' attorney general on Monday asked the state's highest court to review what prosecutors consider to be a too lenient sentence for the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot black teenager Laquan McDonald. More>>
Trump turning to rally politics in El Paso to gain an edge in debate over border wall. More>>
Dogs from affenpinschers to Yorkshire terriers are rounding the rings at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. More>>
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is withdrawing several hundred National Guard troops from the nation's southern border and changing their mission. More>>
Tentative budget agreement to keep government operating gives Trump far less money than he sought for border wall. More>>
Schools are closed across Washington state and the Legislature has cancelled all hearings as snow and ice storms pummeled the Northwest again. More>>
Prosecutors are asking a judge to order a Massachusetts woman to begin serving her 15-month jail sentence for encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself. More>>
Gov. Andrew Cuomo warns that what he calls "political pandering" to critics of Amazon's proposed secondary headquarters could sink New York's biggest-ever economic development deal. More>>
Dozens of John Dingell's former constituents lined up to pay their respects to the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, passing his flag-covered coffin in suburban Detroit and offering condolences to his wife and family. More>>
A private prisoner transport company is shutting down after an MMA fighter accused in two killings escaped from one of its vans while being escorted to a jail in Texas. More>>
Denver teachers are planning to strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after failed negotiations with the school district over base pay. More>>
Police in Nevada say torn-up jailhouse letters yielded a possible confession that led to the arrest of a Florida woman on a murder warrant in the 1986 disappearance of her 3-year-old son - now presumed dead. More>>
A Utah woman who spent nearly two years pushing to get her son freed from a Venezuelan jail has died at age 50. Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love said Monday that Laurie Holt died unexpectedly Sunday at her home in the Salt Lake City suburb of Riverton. More>>
Women and rap artists have felt shunned at past Grammy Awards, but both took center stage this year. More>>
Lawyers for eight immigrant families separated under Trump administration policy have filed claims with the U.S. government demanding $6 million each in damages for what they described as lasting trauma. More>>
Immigrant advocates have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets immigrants from Honduras and Nepal stay in the United States. More>>
Another partial government shutdown could hinge on how many people the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is allowed hold in detention after Democrats said over the weekend that they wanted to cap that number. More>>
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