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PITTSBURGH (AP) — When William Green spoke to union members and supporters at West View Park on Labor Day 1932, he likely made some of the same points...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — An annual freshman pillow fight at the U.S. Military Academy turned bloody this year when cadets swung pillowcases packed with...

DEBLOIS, Maine (AP) — Mary Marshall grew up living the life of a migrant farmer, spending hours under the hot summer sun picking wild blueberries with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — No more sleeping in. With new backpacks, pens and pencils and clothes, millions of children are back in school or heading there afte...

NEW YORK (AP) — It has been more than a decade since U.S. drivers paid so little to fuel up for that last road trip of summer. The national average pr...

BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine (AP) — When Jackson Spencer set out to tackle the Appalachian Trail, he anticipated the solitude that only wilderness can bri...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionate...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will change the name of North America’s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House ...

WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — Several thousand people gathered Sunday to honor three U.S. Forest Service firefighters killed battling wildfires in Washingto...

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Community religious leaders gathered Sunday to remember 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward, th...

HOUSTON (AP) — The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had a lengthy criminal recor...

A gunman killed three relatives in a surprise attack witnessed by several children in a home in eastern Tennessee, authorities said. The 19-year-old a...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Gulf Coast and New Orleans observed the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest storms in American history,...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Global warming is carving measurable changes into Alaska, and President Barack Obama is about to see it. Obama leaves Monday ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for mass deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illeg...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is putting a new twist on the topic of securing the border, a staple among the GOP candidates running fo...

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who prosecutors say lived with her dead baby girl’s body for three months was charged Saturday with murder. Christina Col...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of bicyclists in various stages of undress have pedaled their way around the city to promote fuel conservation and posit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fear that gripped financial markets this month is a stark one: That China’s economy might be slipping into a decline that could ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon’s Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley on Sunday became the 31st senator to announce support for the Iran nuclear deal, as momentum b...