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Activists marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Ricostage a rally and caravan focused on President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. More>>
A North Carolina town where a levee breached is among the latest to feel the punch of Hurricane Florence. More>>
People who want straws with their drinks at California restaurants will have to request them under new state law. More>>
Prominent food researcher defends his work after Cornell said he engaged in academic misconduct. More>>
Aerial photographs show widespread devastation to farms and industrial sites in eastern North Carolina. More>>
Lawmakers have scuttled a plan to limit airline change fees as bill deadline looms. More>>
Higher oil prices hurt consumers, but modest increases don't have to crimp the economy. More>>
The Big Island visitors bureau and Hawaii County have launched a campaign that aims to create a more conscientious tourism industry on the Big Island. More>>
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park will reopen its main gates Saturday, welcoming carloads of visitors eager to see Kilauea's new summit crater and the area where a longstanding lava lake once bubbled near the surface. More>>
Democrats and Republicans are stepping up their spending on state legislative races as they draw nearer to the next round of redistricting. More>>
Six siblings of U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar urged voters to cast their ballots against the Arizona Republican in November in an unusual political ad sponsored by the rival candidate. More>>
Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts has had successful surgery after slipping and hitting his head while playing with his dog in Florida. More>>
"Blue Boy" is getting a long-awaited makeover, and the public will get to watch as one of the world's most iconic paintings gets a little nip here, a tuck there and some splashes of fresh paint. More>>
About 80 of Burt Reynolds friends and relatives shared memories of the late actor at a private memorial service. More>>
There has never been a book tour quite like the one planned for Michelle Obama's "Becoming.". More>>
Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing Monday is set to begin with testimony about his sex offender evaluation and a fierce debate over whether the 81-year-old actor should be branded a 'sexually violent predator'. More>>
Authorities in New York City are facing an epic security and logistical challenge with the coming arrival of President Donald Trump and other world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly. More>>
Hurricane Florence washed away half the rooms at the Starlite Motel in Spring Lake, ripping away the livelihood of a family that bought it in recent months. More>>
A lawyer says four Native Americans who claimed they were sexually abused while enrolled in a now-defunct Mormon church foster program decades ago have filed paperwork to dismiss their cases after reaching financial settlements. More>>
An Alaska man linked to a 10-year-old girl's death through her cellphone pleaded not guilty Friday to lying to federal authorities investigating the case. More>>
A storm system has dumped record amounts of rain in parts of Oklahoma and caused flooding in Texas, including in the Dallas area, where floodwaters swept a man from a bridge to his death. More>>
Duke Energy says dam breached at plant in North Carolina; coal ash may be flowing into Cape Fear River. More>>
A judge says a California kindergartner can keep bringing a cannabis-based drug used for emergency treatment of a rare form of epilepsy to her public school. More>>
Scientists are noticing fewer and fewer moths, ladybugs, fireflies and butterflies, but they can't quite quantify what's happening to flying insect because they never measured how many bugs there used to be. More>>
In he-said, she-said disputes like Kavanaugh case, frailty of memory may play a role. More>>
Officials at Yellowstone National Park say new thermal activity occurred at the park over the past several days. More>>
A white Texas school superintendent who posted online that "You can't count on a black quarterback" in reference to Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson has resigned. More>>
GOP Congressman Paul Gosar says his siblings who endorsed an election opponent in a television ad are disgruntled liberal Democrats who hate President Trump and put ideology before family. More>>
Fearful immigrant families hoping to reunite with children and teenagers who crossed the border alone are facing an intimidating system that includes submitting fingerprints by all adults in the household where a migrant child will live. More>>
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a measure allowing utilities to bill their customers to pay for legal settlements stemming from devastating 2017 wildfires. More>>
Survivors respond with fury to Trump's remarks on woman who accused court nominee of sexual assault. More>>
A national park in Hawaii has reopened after being closed for more than four months because of Kilauea volcano's latest eruption, which caused widespread damage to park infrastructure and dramatically changed its landscape. More>>
Prosecutors say they will dismiss the convictions of 18 more people that resulted from investigations by a corrupt police sergeant and his crew. More>>
Police in an Iowa college town had repeated interactions with a troubled drifter in the weeks between his departure from prison and his alleged killing of a star golfer from Spain. More>>
A museum celebrating all things cannabis with displays that include a glass bong taller than a giraffe and huggable faux marijuana plants is the newest tourist attraction in Las Vegas. More>>
The first black woman to be accredited to cover the White House now has a statue in the Newseum. More>>
A fugitive priest accused of child abuse decades ago in New Mexico has been arrested. More>>
Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes of California is being criticized by his rival in the November election after a photo on social media showed Nunes next to a supporter making a hand gesture that some consider racist. More>>
Attorneys say a California surgeon and his girlfriend deny allegations they preyed on two intoxicated women and then drugged and raped them. More>>
Police in New York say at least five people, including three infants, were stabbed at an overnight day care center in Queens. More>>
Fearful immigrant families hoping to reunite with children and teenagers who crossed the border alone are facing an intimidating system that includes submitting fingerprints by all adults in the household where a migrant child will live. More>>
A Maryland sheriff says the woman who killed three people and wounded others before shooting herself to death at a Maryland drugstore warehouse had been diagnosed with a mental illness and used a legally purchased gun in the rampage. More>>
The Army has missed its recruiting goal for the first time in more than a decade. More>>
Agribusiness giant Monsanto is asking a San Francisco judge to throw out a jury's $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said the company' Roundup weed killer left him dying of cancer. More>>
The crisis from Hurricane Florence is slowly moving to South Carolina along with the trillions of gallons of water dumped by the storm. More>>
Maryland warehouse shooting: three people killed in shooting at distribution center and a fourth person, the female suspect, died after shooting herself in the head. More>>
APNewsBreak: Duke Energy says dam breached at plant in North Carolina; coal ash may be flowing into Cape Fear River. More>>
NN Hurricane Florence is testing the resolve of farmers in the Carolinas, who could face billions of dollars in agricultural damages while still feeling the sting from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. More>>
Sacramento authorities have arrested a 58-year-old man suspected of committing at least 10 rapes across Northern California between 1991 and 2006. More>>
The jury in the trial of a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald has heard very little about race. More>>
US Sen. Maria Cantwell faces former head of Wash. state GOP. More>>
The first black woman to be accredited to cover the White House now has a statue in the Newseum. More>>
A judge says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be questioned under oath by lawyers challenging a decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. More>>
Authorities say Arizona residents and immigrants in the U.S. illegally from Guatemala were among the eight people killed in a head-on crash. More>>
Three computer hackers whose "botnet" known as Mirai virtually paralyzed chunks of the Internet in 2016 have received light sentences after helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity. More>>
Family and friends will gather Friday for the funeral of a New York mother who turned grief over her daughter's killing into a crusade against MS-13 gang violence. More>>
A new exhibition in San Francisco aims to show the diversity and creativity of modern fashion for Muslim women. More>>
Police say the suspect in a Wisconsin workplace shooting that seriously injured three people had his concealed-carry permit revoked and was unable to legally purchase a firearm. More>>
Evangelical activists are pressing Republican leaders to act "much more aggressively" Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. More>>
California State University, Long Beach, will be ousting its "Prospector Pete" statue because of the impact the 1849 gold rush had on indigenous people. More>>
A Southern California prosecutor says his office has received leads to more than 12 possible additional victims in the investigation of a surgeon and a female companion already charged with drugging and raping two women. More>>
California has filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical giant AbbVie of illegally plying doctors with cash, gifts and services to prescribe one of the world's biggest selling drugs. More>>
The Mormon church says a new youth program it will roll out in 2020 when it cuts ties with Boy Scouts of America will still include outdoor and adventure activities even as the initiative becomes gospel-focused. More>>
Officials say hotplates and space heaters will be distributed to thousands of Massachusetts residents who were left without natural gas following a series of gas explosions and fires. More>>
An observatory in the mountains of southern New Mexico that mysteriously closed earlier this month appears to be linked to a child pornography investigation. More>>
A judge on Massachusetts' highest court has denied a bid to block federal agents from arresting immigrants targeted for deportation at state courthouses. More>>
Researchers say they've identified a site off the coast of Rhode Island where they think the ship that 18th-century explorer Capt James Cook used to sail around the world may be located. More>>
A gunman authorities say shot at his ex-wife and then killed his parents in Pennsylvania has been found dead. More>>
Republicans' chances of keeping their U.S. Senate majority have become shakier as races in red states have tightened, but the party's most vulnerable member insists he's bullish about his re-election. More>>
Yellowstone National Park officials say they have ticketed a man caught on video walking dangerously close to Old Faithful geyser. More>>
Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. More>>
American expects to bar customers from making changes to nonrefundable tickets if Congress cracks down on 'unreasonable' airline fees. More>>
Puerto Ricans are marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria with choirs, protests and a funeral procession. More>>
Aggressive Canadian crabs invading US waters from Nova Scotia threaten coastal ecosystem. More>>
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has hired a former federal judge to review its procedures and protocols for handling allegations of sexual abuse. More>>
Bill Gates is rallying behind school quality in developing nations with a push for more assessment data, a new initiative that links the Microsoft co-founder's signature U.S. education priorities with his more prominent global philanthropy work. More>>
Cornell says its investigation found academic misconduct the research of a prominent professor. More>>
The U.S. government will pay $925,000 and improve worker safety to settle a lawsuit over employee exposure to chemical vapors at the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site. More>>
With Florence's floodwaters receding in some places and still menacing others, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are getting a chance to take stock of the destruction. More>>
A judge will decide whether a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo receives leniency or a long prison sentence for his conviction on federal bribery and fraud charges. More>>
An attorney for two Native American brothers pulled from a Colorado State University tour is asking the school for policy changes. More>>
Arizona officials have moved to revoke the licenses for a nonprofit that houses immigrant children in part because it missed a deadline to show that all its employees passed background checks. More>>
Authorities say multiple people have been shot in northeast Maryland in what the FBI is describing as an "active shooter situation". More>>
Hurricane Florence is still wearing out the Carolinas, where residents have endured an agonizing week of violent winds, torrential rain, widespread flooding, power outages and death. More>>
A federal grand jury has indicted an Alaska man linked to a missing 10-year-old girl's death, alleging he lied, among other things, that he found the missing girl's cellphone when in fact he took it from her. More>>
Three slayings raise alarms for women who exercise or practice sports alone. More>>
Several meteorologists and disaster experts say Florence highlights a problem with the way hurricane danger is rated. More>>
Lawyers and advocates for victims of clergy sex-abuse are assailing as inadequate some new steps announced by U.S. Catholic bishops to curtail the abuse scandals that are shaking the church. More>>
Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. fell more than 5 percent Tuesday after a report that it's under criminal investigation over statements about taking the company private. More>>
Three civilians wounded when a gunman opened fire outside a crowded Pennsylvania courtroom are now out of the hospital. More>>
Authorities say nine people, including seven who were in the U.S. illegally, were killed in a head-on collision on an Arizona highway. More>>
Authorities say multiple people have been shot in northeast Maryland in what the FBI is describing as an "active shooter situation". More>>
Voting integrity advocates had argued Georgia's electronic voting machines are unreliable and vulnerable to hacking, but a federal judge says forcing the state to change its system to paper ballots before the midterm elections is too risky. More>>
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Monday that he plans to blast off on the first-ever commercial trip around the moon and will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on the weeklong journey. More>>
Border Patrol agent accused of being serial killer lived typical suburban life. More>>
Four women killed in Texas _ allegedly by a Border Patrol agent _ were bound by difficulties in life. But relatives say they were more than the troubles they endured. More>>
Authorities say they don't yet know what prompted an employee of a Wisconsin software company to open fire at his office, injuring four people, including three seriously. More>>
A federal judge in Connecticut has dismissed a lawsuit by 60 former professional wrestlers who claimed World Wrestling Entertainment failed to protect them from repeated head trauma. More>>
Florence shows how politics has been drawn into coverage of major storms. More>>
An on-again, off-again effort to restrict harmful methane emissions on federal lands is off _ again. More>>
An Arkansas man whose 1992 murder conviction was overturned with the help of the Midwest Innocence Project has been freed from prison. More>>
Officials say two women being transported to a mental health facility by deputies have drowned when they were trapped in the van as it was engulfed in rising South Carolina floodwaters. More>>
Elizabeth Smart says the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 fell short on her apology. More>>
Arthur Mitchell, who broke barriers for African-Americans in the 1950s as a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet and who would go on to become a driving force in the creation of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, has died. More>>
NASA chiefs going back 30 years have come together to mark the space agency's 60th anniversary. More>>
One provision of the Republican tax overhaul looms large in several tight congressional races this fall, especially in California and New Jersey. More>>
Teammates and others who knew an Iowa State University student-athlete who was killed this week while playing golf near the campus shared stories about her and lit candles in her memory. More>>
Elizabeth Smart's father says he's grateful that one of her kidnappers will be watched closely by federal agents now that she's been freed from prison, but he remains concerned about Wanda Barzee's mental state. More>>
The town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, is known for a string of highly esteemed mayors, one of whom died this week. More>>
Police are responding to a report of an active shooter in a commercial building in the southern Wisconsin community of Middleton. More>>
Women allegedly killed by Border Patrol supervisor in Texas endured trying lives. More>>
Two women who say they were sexually abused as children have alleged that the Jehovah's Witnesses failed to report their abuser to authorities in Montana. More>>
A judge has ruled that U.S. officials cannot deny a passport application from an intersex Colorado resident based solely on a refusal to select male or female for gender. More>>
Exhaustion and frustration are building in the Carolinas as thousands of people wait to go home days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic rain and floods. More>>
Authorities allege that the owner of a Texas company being sued by several states over its plan to disseminate blueprints for making untraceable 3D-printed guns had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward. More>>
For the third time in a month, Border Patrol agents have found a large group of immigrants in a remote desert area of southern Arizona. More>>
Jon Burge, a former Chicago police commander who was linked to numerous cases of misconduct and abuse of suspects, has died in Florida. More>>
Slain golfer and suspect lived contrasting lives in the same Iowa college town. More>>
A city official says four people have been shot, but none fatally, during shooting at software company near Madison, Wisconsin. More>>
A school district near San Francisco has become the latest to adopt a dress code allowing midriff-baring shirts and short shorts that it says is less sexist. More>>
Two female detainees have drowned when a van was swept away in rising South Carolina flood waters. More>>
Authorities confirm two detainees drowned when a van was swept away in rising flood waters in South Carolina. More>>
Hundreds of mourners have come out to remember the Massachusetts teen who died in last week's natural gas explosions north of Boston. More>>
A top U.S. Justice Department official says it's doubling the amount of federal funding for tribal public safety and crime victims as it seeks to tackle the high-rates of violence against Native American women. More>>
The Coca-Cola Company says that it's "closely watching" the growth of the use of a non-psychoactive element of cannabis in wellness drinks. More>>
A prosecutor says a North Dakota man accused of helping to kill a pregnant woman tightened a rope around her neck after his girlfriend sliced the baby from the victim's womb. More>>
Bill Cosby's trial judge rejects defense motion to step down from the sex assault case before Monday's sentencing hearing near Philadelphia. More>>
Officials puzzle over especially aggressive attack that kills hunting guide, injures client in Wyoming. More>>
Food and water handouts are beginning in the North Carolina city of Wilmington, which is still mostly cut off by floodwaters from Hurricane Florence. More>>
The U.S. Forest Service says the largest wildfire on record in California is 100 percent contained. More>>
Testimony expected to resume in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. More>>
Carolina residents wonder where to call home after Florence swamps neighborhoods. More>>
Mormon church leaders are calling for Utah lawmakers to pass medical-marijuana legislation by the end of the year even as they urge residents to vote against an insurgent ballot measure that would legalize it. More>>
A California doctor who appeared in a reality TV dating show and a woman co-defendant have been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting two women, and authorities suspect there may be more victims. More>>
Relatives in Spain of a star collegiate golfer who was stabbed to death by a stranger on an Iowa golf course say they distraught. More>>
Puerto Rico dialysis patients fear death 1 year after Maria shuttered treatment center in Vieques. More>>
Nearly 1 in 11 U.S. students used marijuana in electronic cigarettes in 2016, heightening concern about the new popularity of vaping. More>>
Former top administration officials to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker aren't airing their grievances as unnamed sources or through anonymous op-eds _ they're criticizing him publicly. More>>
McDonald's workers are staging protests in several cities in what organizers called the first multistate strike seeking to combat sexual harassment in the workplace. More>>
Elizabeth Smart says she's been assured that the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be watched when she's released from prison. More>>
The pressure in natural gas pipelines prior to a series of explosions and fires in Massachusetts last week was 12 times higher than it should have been. More>>
Dozens of family members of four women who investigators say a US Border Patrol supervisor killed have held a vigil in South Texas to remember the women. More>>
A Northern California jury has found guilty a career criminal who authorities believe to be the 'Gypsy Hill Killer" of killing two teenage girls. More>>
Former Iowa State University golfer found dead at golf course; man charged with murder. More>>
The video of the Laquan McDonald shooting is so central to the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke that jurors watched it repeatedly during the first day of testimony. More>>
In a rare move, the U.S. government has approved the importation of marijuana extracts from Canada for a clinical trial, highlighting a new avenue for American researchers who have had trouble obtaining the drug for medical studies. More>>
The head of the Los Angeles Times' Beijing bureau has resigned four months after the newspaper suspended him following sexual harassment complaints from two women. More>>
South Carolina's governor plans to meet with top Department of Defense leaders to discuss the state's response to Florence. More>>
A U.S. appeals court is siding with bartenders and waiters in a fight over whether restaurants can pay them less because they receive tips. More>>
Deadly floodwaters that sent North Carolina rivers to record or near-record heights have many jittery about whether dams across the state will hold under the strain. More>>
A NASA satellite designed to precisely measure changes in Earths ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and vegetation has been launched from California. More>>
Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut roar ashore the same day half a world apart, spreading devastation as differently as the water and the wind. More>>
Scientists: Warner world makes hurricanes wetter, stronger and faster to intensify. More>>
Los Angeles would become the largest city in America to ban the sale of fur products if it approves a proposed law backed by animal activists. More>>
Flags at California's Capitol are flying at half-staff after a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy was killed and a second wounded in a confrontation at a Pep Boys store. More>>
Two shark attacks on Cape Cod this summer are underscoring the need for better cellphone service at some of the region's beaches. More>>
Arrest highlights Border Patrol's challenge of keeping rogue agents off its force. More>>
Several people arrested in a police "kettle" during a 2017 protest in St. Louis are suing the city, police officers and their supervisors. More>>
British diver who helped with Thai cave rescue files defamation lawsuit against Elon Musk, who called the diver a pedophile on Twitter. More>>
A criminal complaint says a top amateur female golfer from Spain died after being repeatedly stabbed by a homeless man at a course near her university campus in Iowa. More>>
Time magazine is being sold for $190 million to cloud computing pioneer. More>>
President Donald Trump's eldest son on Monday appeared to mock the sexual assault allegations against his father's nominee for the Supreme Court. More>>
10-year veteran of US Border Patrol being held on $2.5 million bond, accused of killing at least four women and injuring a fifth who escaped. More>>
A Japanese supply run to the International Space Station has been delayed again. More>>
Flooded rivers in North Carolina have begun to swamp coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms, raising pollution concerns as swollen waterways approach their crests. More>>
Many in North Carolina lulled into believing they've already weathered the worst of Florence, but rising rivers pose a dangerous flood threat. More>>
Drivers for the ride-hailing company Uber are frustrated over a glitch that is keeping them from being paid immediately. More>>
A unique wildlife refuge on the site of a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado is opening its gates to the public after a confusing day when officials first said they would not open the refuge and then said they would. More>>
While Elon Musk is on the verge of announcing the first private passenger to travel to the moon, his brother Kimbal Musk is talking about growing basil plants at an indoor garden in Brooklyn. More>>
The Sacramento Sheriff's Department says two deputies and a bystander have been shot during an incident just outside of the capital city. More>>
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa says he will invite six to eight artists, architects and other creative people on a weeklong journey to circumnavigate the moon. More>>
SpaceX is on the verge of announcing the name of person who would be the first private passenger on a trip around the moon. More>>
A Rhode Island town is considering asking departments to refrain from purchasing Nike products, but the state ACLU is objecting. More>>
Hurricane Florence has taken this deceptive turn: The violent winds that rattled shingles off houses and tore down trees subsided, the pounding rain slowed to a pour, lulling many in its path into believing they've already weathered the worst of it. More>>
Catastrophic flooding from Florence spreads across the Carolinas with one city virtually cut off by the deluge and the vast storm system now over several states. More>>
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