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HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The latest on the investigation into the death of a black woman who authorities say hanged herself in a Texas jail cell (all t...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A judge rejected a series of defense motions Friday in the death penalty case of a white supremacist charged with killing three pe...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Obama is booked for his seventh appearance on “The Daily Show” Tuesday as Jon Stewart is beginning his final three weeks as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican-led House committee asked Friday for a briefing from the Planned Parenthood official whose secretly recorded discussion...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith fights for his life after being shot at a military support center in Tennessee, his gr...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — British character actor Aubrey Morris who is best known for his role as Mr. Deltoid in “A Clockwork Orange” has died. His agent, La...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The latest on the Chattanooga shootings at two military facilities (all times local): 11:45 a.m. The second Marine killed in...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks indexes were mixed in midday trading as investors assess the latest batch of earnings news. The Dow Jones industrial avera...

The University of Pittsburgh board of trustees today approved a blended tuition increase of 1.7 percent for 2015-16, which university officials say is...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prisoner convicted of killing five people including a Bible studies teacher told a prison chaplain he was not suicidal b...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police arrested a shirtless man believed to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol after he scaled two fences and ran onto a runw...

BENEDICTA, Maine (AP) — State police say they’re searching for a gunman in a stolen logging truck following the shootings of four people in three diff...

DETROIT (AP) — Declaring a “house of horrors” closed, a judge sentenced a Detroit mother to life in prison Friday for killing two of her four children...

MIAMI (AP) — The future is murky for thousands of Cuban immigrants who have outstanding deportation orders as the United States and Cuba inch closer t...

CULBERTSON, Mont. (AP) — An evacuation order has been lifted for a rural area of eastern Montana after a train hauling oil from North Dakota derailed ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Jurors needed only 12 hours to reject the idea that James Holmes was legally insane when he opened fire on a packed movie the...

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the challenges for makers of the MTV documentary “White People” was getting folks to talk about race when they didn’t feel the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop mogul and animal-rights advocate Russell Simmons is comparing New York’s horse-drawn carriages to slavery and the Holocaust. S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. builders broke ground on apartment complexes last month at the fastest pace in nearly 28 years, as developers anticipate that r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising gasoline prices pushed inflation up modestly in June, leaving overall consumer prices higher than they were a year earlier fo...