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100 years later, researchers conclude underwater mine sank World War I warship off the coast of New York. More>>
Branson's Virgin Galactic gearing up to finally send its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space. More>>
Congress has agreed to make it easier to kill sea lions threatening fragile runs of salmon in the Northwest. More>>
Wildlife managers have confirmed that a record number of Mexican gray wolves have been reported dead this year. More>>
Three Alaska groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to demand it enforce the cleanup of polluted air around the state's second-largest city. More>>
A nuclear test reactor that can melt uranium fuel rods in seconds is running again after a near quarter-century shutdown as U.S. officials try to revamp a fading nuclear power industry with safer fuel designs and a new generation of power plants. More>>
A new report criticizes decisions made to stop a 2016 fire in California's Big Sur area that became the costliest wildfire fight in U.S. history. More>>
Warnings about the potential for voter fraud in a rural North Carolina county went unheeded for years before last month's disputed congressional race. More>>
Local leaders say plea deal allowing former Baylor student to serve no jail times highlights outsized influence alumni play in shaping local criminal justice system. More>>
Immigration officials say an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who suffered seizures in custody and later died. More>>
In a rare step, the California Supreme Court has blocked Gov. Jerry Brown's attempt to issue a pardon to a 37-year-old man Cambodian refugee facing deportation for killing and robbing a woman when he was 14 years old. More>>
Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan enacted last-minute limits on Democratic power Friday, with GOP governors in both Upper Midwest states signing laws protecting their priorities before leaving office in less than a month. More>>
Rep. Beto O'Rourke, other Democrats tour remote tent city where 2,700 immigrant teens are being held at a cost of roughly $1 million per day. More>>
North Carolina's public university system rejects proposal to build a $5 million structure to house a toppled Confederate statue. More>>
A report on firefighter injuries in a deadly Northern California wildfire details the harrowing conditions they faced and a few close calls with death. More>>
Regulators are accusing one of California's largest utilities of falsifying safety documents on natural gas pipelines. More>>
California is moving to eliminate fossil fuels from its fleet of 14,000 transit buses, enacting a first-in-the-nation mandate that will vastly increase the number of electric buses on the road. More>>
Two Maryland congressmen say Navy officials are taking steps to correct deficiencies that wrongly led to reports of an active shooter at Walter Reed National Medical Center outside Washington last month. More>>
Melania Trump is keeping up the first ladies' tradition of a Christmas season visit to a Washington children's hospital. More>>
US officials have traced a recent outbreak of E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce to at least 1 farm in central California. More>>
A U.S. appeals court has blocked rules by the Trump administration allowing more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control. More>>
With federal legalization of hemp at hand, the US market is set to boom amid the popularity of CBDs, a non-psychoactive compound found in hemp as a health supplement. More>>
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb is pushing for Indiana to join the 45 states that have hate crime laws. More>>
Holiday decorations that have been displayed for decades at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel into New York are not making the season bright for some motorists. More>>
Colorado police say they are searching the property of a missing woman's fiance. More>>
Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating the finances of President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and whether foreigners made illegal contributions to its events. More>>
Four states that say burning coal will hurt their residents as it makes climate change worse are trying to stop the Trump administration from selling vast reserves of the fuel that are beneath public lands. More>>
General Motors says it has 2,700 jobs for the 3,300 U.S. factory workers it plans to lay off next year. More>>
A Florida woman has been convicted of helping mastermind the killing of her husband nearly two decades ago. More>>
Arizona's governor says U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will resign at the end of the year from the U.S. Senate seat he was appointed to less than four months ago following the death of Sen. Jon McCain. More>>
When it comes to a 2020 presidential run, Beto O'Rourke is still playing hard to get. More>>
Lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people in a terrorist attack on a New York City bike path say they have learned that the FBI was intercepting his communications. More>>
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a sweeping package of Republican-written legislation that restricts early voting and weakens the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general. More>>
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed Republican-backed laws to significantly scale back citizen-initiated measures to raise the minimum wage and require paid sick leave for workers. More>>
China has Canada in its cross-hairs, detaining two Canadians in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top Chinese tech executive on behalf of the U.S. States. More>>
A Montana man has pleaded guilty to killing two people whose bodies were dismembered and placed in acid-filled tubs to dispose of them. More>>
A new report says that while Texas led the nation in the number of inmates executed in 2018, the use of capital punishment in the state continues to decline. More>>
High school students are getting more sleep in Seattle thanks to a later start of the school day. More>>
California Supreme Court chief justice says she gave up her Republican Party affiliation over concerns about increasing polarization and incivility in the country. More>>
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a sweeping package of Republican-authored lame-duck legislation that restricts early voting and weakens the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general. More>>
A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, a day of memorial services and moments of silence to mark the sixth anniversary of the massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators. More>>
A Pennsylvania state police trooper who was shot in a 2014 ambush has had his right leg amputated below the knee. More>>
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood says more than one-fourth of the seafood her office sampled in a statewide supermarket survey was mislabeled. More>>
California regulators are considering a plan to charge a fee for text messaging on mobile phones to help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor. More>>
Authorities say bomb threats sent to dozens of schools, universities and other locations across the U.S. appear to be a hoax. More>>
A U.S. judge in San Francisco says a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of denying nearly all visa applicants under President Donald Trump's travel ban will move forward. More>>
Man convicted of fatally beating and stabbing South Florida woman 26 years ago scheduled to be executed Thursday evening. More>>
The father of a woman found alive after spending days in an underground coal mine in West Virginia says his daughter went into the mine in search of copper. More>>
Water managers from seven Southwestern states that depend on the Colorado River say they're close but haven't finalized an unprecedented drought contingency plan they may have to implement in 2020. More>>
Effort to dilute power of next Wisconsin governor stirs separation-of-powers debate. More>>
A woman who accused a former Baylor University student of raping her at a fraternity party says she's outraged his plea includes no jail time. More>>
Gov. Scott Walker says the powers of his Democratic replacement will remain among the strongest of any governor in the country, even if he signs bills passed in a lame-duck session. More>>
Secret Service ends detail for George H.W. Bush after nearly 40 years of protecting the former president, who was known by the code name "Timberwolf". More>>
Attorneys for a former Baylor University student accused of rape have fired back against an account the accuser read in court, saying it was "riddled with distortions and misrepresentations.". More>>
Former U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor, Arizona's first Hispanic member of Congress, will be laid to rest Friday. More>>
President Donald Trump says he'll be making an announcement on Saturday concerning the Joint Chiefs of staff. More>>
Millions in Southern states brace for a harsh wintry storm that could bring immobilizing snowfalls, icy roads or deadly floods. More>>
A divided U.S. appeals court has refused to immediately allow the Trump administration to enforce a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. More>>
Kansas' new Democratic governor has promised not to raise taxes to boost state spending, but Republicans who control the Legislature argue that one is already coming. More>>
A Guatemalan living in the U.S. illegally who says she faced abusive working conditions as a maid at Donald Trump's New Jersey golf club doesn't regret speaking out, even though she might lose her job and be deported. More>>
A California state lawmaker has been arrested on suspicion of child cruelty. More>>
A military spokesman says an aircraft crashed in the ocean Wednesday. More>>
Doctors: American diplomats affected by mysterious health incidents in Cuba showed damage in the inner ear shortly after they complained of weird noises and sensations. More>>
A Catholic Jesuit province covering 13 states says it has found "credible allegations" of sexual abuse involving 42 priests and other ministry leaders, dating back to 1955. More>>
President Donald Trump says he will nominate William Barr, former President George H.W. Bush's attorney general, to serve in the same role. More>>
Hertz partners with Clear to speed car rental process with biometric scanning. More>>
Victims of alleged molestation by a physician at Rockefeller University Hospital want to know what happened to photos they say the doctor took while the abuse was occurring. More>>
Colorado police are asking for help in their search for a missing woman, whose family calls her disappearance completely out of character for the mother of a one-year-old daughter. More>>
The "Fearless Girl" statue that inspired millions with a message of female empowerment has a new home in front of the New York Stock Exchange. More>>
Military officials at the sprawling Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson say last week's magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Anchorage caused multiple problems around the base, including damage to steel frameworks, ceilings, and sprinkler and heating systems. More>>
A U.S. judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family members in the U.S. More>>
Jose Canseco makes pitch for chief of staff job in tweet to Trump. More>>
Outgoing Republican Gov. John Kasich says he's continuing a serious look at a third presidential run while acknowledging he probably couldn't win GOP primaries held today. More>>
Federal immigration authorities have confirmed that a 7-year-old girl who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her father last week died after being taken into the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol. More>>
President Donald Trump is invoking something called the "advice-of-counsel" defense in response to the scandal over hush-money payments made to conceal his alleged affairs. More>>
With the Northwest's beloved killer whales on the brink of extinction, Washington Gov. More>>
The owner of a small Arizona newspaper chain and his wife are locked in a nasty divorce dispute that includes allegations of poisoning. More>>
The Boy Scouts of America says it is exploring "all options" to address serious financial challenges, but is declining to confirm or deny a report that it may seek bankruptcy protection. More>>
A 78-year-old man who says he killed about 90 people over nearly four decades as he moved around the country has pleaded guilty to murder in the 1994 strangulation of a Texas woman. More>>
Los Angeles County supervisors approved a massive housing project in fire-prone mountains as the state continues to recover from devastating wildfires. More>>
A lawyer who made his career protecting President Donald Trump is set to learn whether cooperating with federal investigators will lessen his punishment for dodging taxes, lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws. More>>
Colorado police are asking for help in their search for a missing woman, whose family calls her disappearance completely out of character for the mother of a one-year-old daughter. More>>
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker executed a $28 million deal to save nearly 400 jobs at a Kimberly-Clark Corp. plant using powers that his Democratic successor would no longer have under a bill passed during a lame-duck session last week. More>>
Jersey City is teaming up with Amazon to try and thwart the thefts of packages during the Christmas season. More>>
The nation's capital is facing a spiraling rat infestation, fueled by mild winters and a human population boom. More>>
Health officials are reporting the most cases ever of a mysterious paralyzing illness in children. More>>
The Kentucky Supreme Court has struck down a pension law that prompted thousands of teachers to protest at the state Capitol. More>>
Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket ship takes off on test flight to reach the edge of space. More>>
Minnesota lawmakers are considering steps they could take to rein in the soaring cost of insulin, which one couple says has become so expensive that their diabetic son could no longer afford it and died. More>>
A Pennsylvania man who has been praised for giving up his first-class seat for a mother with an 11-month-old baby says he doesn't think it was that big of a deal. More>>
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is gearing up to finally send its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space. More>>
Authorities estimate it will cost at least $3 billion to clear debris of 19,000 homes destroyed by California wildfires last month. More>>
A federal judge has sentenced a Brazilian couple to minimal prison sentences for helping their daughter kidnap their grandson, who has been living in Brazil for the last five years after being taken from Texas. More>>
Authorities say three people missing since last weekend have been found alive at a nonoperational coal mine in southern West Virginia. More>>
Two Russian cosmonauts are preparing to venture outside the International Space Station to inspect a section where a mysterious leak has been discovered. More>>
A teen has pleaded guilty to two charges of murder for fatally shooting his father in their home and a 6-year-old boy at a South Carolina elementary school. More>>
Washington state is finishing construction on its largest wildlife bridge: a 35-foot-tall, 66-foot-wide span that will carry myriad migrating animals over busy Interstate 90. More>>
The panel investigating the Florida high school massacre is recommending that teachers who volunteer and undergo extensive background checks and training be allowed to carry concealed guns on campus to stop future shootings. More>>
A federal judge says immigrant rights activists can continue to challenge what they describe as unlawful U.S. government delays for asylum cases. More>>
A federal lawsuit accuses police officials in a Washington, D.C., suburb of retaliating against black and Hispanic officers who complain about racist, abusive conduct by white officers. More>>
California's top firefighter: Wildfires have become so unpredictable that government officials should consider banning home construction in particularly vulnerable areas. More>>
Quackarazzi: A brightly colored Mandarin duck is holding New York City in its spell, with pink, purple, orange and emerald green colors one admirer called a "living box of crayons.". More>>
Dozens of retired state and federal judges are calling on U.S. immigration officials to stop making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally. More>>
The New York Police Department is investigating video that shows a group of officers pulling a 1-year-old boy from his mother's arms while arresting her at a Brooklyn food stamp office. More>>
The investigation into sexual-misconduct claims against former CBS CEO Les Moonves will loom large over the network's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. More>>
NASA's Voyager 2 becomes only 2nd human-made object to reach space between the stars. More>>
Insurance claims from last month's California wildfires already are at $9 billion. More>>
Artificial dyes are falling out of favor, but foods get color boosts in other unexpected ways. More>>
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck eastern Tennessee and could be felt in Atlanta. More>>
Time magazine's 2018 person of the year are the "guardians and the war on truth.". More>>
A federal judge has ordered porn star Stormy Daniels to pay Donald Trump nearly $293,000 for his attorneys' fees and another $1,000 in sanctions after her defamation suit against the president was dismissed. More>>
A South Carolina social club's decision to deny membership to a doctor who would have been its first black member has prompted several local groups to cut ties with it. More>>
Christmas tree farmers nationwide are fighting back against the growing popularity of the artificial Christmas evergreen with a social media ad campaign. More>>
Michelle Obama surprised a group of Detroit college students, walking in as the young men of color took part in a roundtable discussion on education at the Motown Museum. More>>
The moment of reckoning has nearly arrived for ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. More>>
Texas death row inmate set to be executed for the fatal shooting more than 25 years ago of a newlywed who had only been married for 10 days. More>>
Detectives were trying to determine whether nude photographs linked to a former University of Southern California gynecologist show any of the women who claim he sexually harassed or abused them during examinations. More>>
A Virginia jury is set to resume deliberations on a sentencing recommendation for a man convicted of killing a woman and injuring dozens when he drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally. More>>
An Indiana judge entered a preliminary not guilty plea for a high school football player accused of killing a 17-year-old schoolmate who was pregnant with his child. More>>
Federal officials say they are increasing catch limits for several species of West Coast groundfish that were severely depleted more than a dozen years ago, posing a threat to the commercial and sports fishing industries. More>>
Melania Trump is sorting toys and making Christmas cards for an annual toy drive held by the Marine Corps Reserve. More>>
Bill Cosby's lawyers file list of alleged trial errors as they seek to undo conviction, 3- to 10-year sentence. More>>
Several Southern states hit hard by a wintry storm were gradually warming Tuesday, but forecasters warned that temperatures in many areas will plunge below freezing again Tuesday night. More>>
The Trump administration is advancing plans to ease restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other activities on huge swaths of land in the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird species. More>>
The assertion that "truth isn't truth," made by a personal attorney for President Donald Trump, tops a Yale Law School librarian's list of the most notable quotes of 2018. More>>
A Texas judge has accepted a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University fraternity president accused of rape to avoid serving jail time. More>>
Companies seeking tax credits from Wisconsin's troubled job-creation agency would face less scrutiny under a provision Republicans included in a package of lame-duck legislation designed to weaken newly elected Democrats. More>>
US Border Patrol agents handcuff about a dozen people participating in demonstration organized by Quaker group at U.S.-Mexico border to protest militarization of border. More>>
Melvin Dummar, a delivery driver whose claim that reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes left a handwritten will bequeathing him $156 million when he died in 1976 was dismissed as a hoax, has died in rural Nevada. More>>
In the aftermath of California's catastrophic wildfire, online sleuths known as 'angels' bring their skills to Paradise to reconnect friends and family with survivors. More>>
Authorities say a 16-year-old boy is suspected in the death of a 17-year-old pregnant schoolmate whose body was found near her northern Indiana home in a restaurant's dumpster. More>>
Several people who were severely injured by a man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally have described devastating physical and psychological injuries to jurors deciding a sentencing recommendation. More>>
The same jury that convicted a man of first-degree murder for driving his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally will now decide his punishment. More>>
US Border Patrol agents handcuff about a dozen people participating in demonstration organized by Quaker group at U.S.-Mexico border to protest militarization of border. More>>
Authorities say the FBI is now involved in an investigation into an attack by several white supremacists on a black DJ at a tavern in Washington state over the weekend. More>>
Millions in Southern states brace for a harsh wintry storm that's bringing immobilizing snowfalls, icy roads or deadly floods. More>>
An overturned truck full of pigs is adding to traffic delays as western North Carolina digs out from a snow storm. More>>
A polygamous group based on the Utah-Arizona border has allowed the building where it held worship services to be taken over in an ongoing eviction process that has steadily loosened the sect's grip on a community it ruled for a century. More>>
Northern Indiana authorities have accused a 16-year-old football player of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old girl during a fight about her pregnancy, tightly tying a plastic bag over her and dumping her body. More>>
People expressing fear to return home after being stopped at the US-Mexico border spiked in the last year, according to figures released by Monday by US Customs and Border Protection on the first step in the asylum process. More>>
A Nebraska man convicted of killing his wife has pleaded guilty to killing his parents and a niece. More>>
Church officials say a pair of nuns embezzled a "substantial" amount of money from the Southern California Catholic school where they worked for decades and used it to pay for gambling trips to Las Vegas casinos. More>>
Documents from the investigation into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are shedding light on the gunman's anger, scorn for other people, and deep social isolation in the years leading up to the shooting. More>>
The Trump administration has proposed reclassifying some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to make disposal cheaper and easier. More>>
Female musicians who not only write their own lyrics _ but produce their songs too _ are taking center stage at the 2019 Grammy Awards, a year after female voices were shut of the show's major categories. More>>
With drought continuing and reservoirs shrinking, seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the Colorado River had been expected to ink a crucial share-the-pain contingency plan by the end of 2018. More>>
Hart's fallout raises questions about the Oscars host problem and the liability of social media. More>>
Wisconsin Gov.-elect Tony Evers says he's not optimistic that outgoing governor Scott Walker will veto bills approved by the Republican-dominated Legislature that would limit the new governor's power. More>>
The nation's first teachers' strike against a charter school operator is ending in Chicago. More>>
General Motors' planned shutdown of its Detroit-Hamtramck plant would leave only one auto assembly factory in the city, but the closure and job losses are not expected to stall-out Detroit's remarkable comeback. More>>
Global carbon pollution rose sharply this year after several years of little growth. More>>
Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland has died in Minnesota. More>>
The FBI says an arrest has been made in the disappearance and death of a North Carolina teenager. More>>
Refined grains will be allowed back on school lunches, as will flavored, low-fat milk. More>>
Boy gets small Colorado town to lift nearly century-old ban on snowball fights. More>>
Another study by a prominent food researcher is being retracted. More>>
Elected officials say the deal to bring a new Amazon headquarters to New York City is a big win for taxpayers, but the math behind billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives isn't that simple. More>>
Civil rights activists in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, are hoping the first-degree-murder conviction of a man who drove into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally will help heal their scarred community. More>>
Kevin Hart's response to criticism over earlier homophobic tweets has further inflamed the backlash to the newly minted Oscar host. More>>
The passing of George and Barbara Bush won't mean an end to the children's laughter, splashing in the pool, barking dogs, or clinking horseshoes at the family compound on the Maine coast. More>>
Dog that survived deadly Northern California wildfire apparently guarded his burned home for almost a month until his owner returned. More>>
Authorities say they plan to announce a "significant" development in their investigation of last month's shooting at a popular Southern California bar that killed 12 people, including a sheriff's deputy. More>>
About 20 survivors are gathering at Pearl Harbor to remember thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago. More>>
Retired Navy commander Don Long remembers the 1941 Japanese attack on Hawaii from his home in Northern California. More>>
Twice in the span of 11 days last month, a black man who drew a gun in response to a crime in the U.S. was shot to death by a white police officer after apparently being mistaken for the bad guy. More>>
Millions in Southern states brace for a harsh wintry storm that could bring immobilizing snowfalls, icy roads or deadly floods. More>>
Changes to North Carolina's absentee voting rules may have invited 'ballot harvesting'. More>>
A health official testified that a cooling tower that provides mist to make Disneyland guests more comfortable was the likely source for 22 cases in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak last year near the theme park. More>>
Jury deliberations set to begin in murder trial of man accused of plunging into a crowd of counterprotesters at white nationalist rally, killing 1 woman and injuring dozens. More>>
A mass desecration of graves at a Connecticut cemetery has devastated dozens of families while police determine whether to file criminal charges. More>>
A bill making it easier to kill sea lions that feast on imperiled salmon in the Columbia River has cleared the U.S. Senate. More>>
California prosecutors say Amazon has agreed to stop selling foie gras in the state from birds that have been force fed after state lawmakers banned that form of the fatty duck and goose liver delicacy. More>>
President Donald Trump is in Missouri to address a national conference on crime. More>>
A Utah man who helped a teenage girl kill herself and filmed the act to fulfill what prosecutors called a fascination with death will serve at least five years and up to life in prison. More>>
Michigan's chief medical executive will stand trial on involuntary manslaughter and other charges in a criminal investigation of the Flint water crisis. More>>
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