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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said the Baltimore riots show that police departments need to hold officers accountable for wrongdoing “inste...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The courtroom where the Colorado theater shooting trial is unfolding is awash with emotion as survivors recount the horrors o...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Russian supply capsule that went into an uncontrollable spin after launch was declared a total loss Wednesday, but astro...

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico State Police official says the two crew members on a freight train that struck a parked train on a siding apparently...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday announced more than $4 million in projects in four states as part of a wildfire-fight...

NEW YORK (AP) — For nine days, the 12 jurors asked to see dozens of exhibits, to have hours and hours of trial transcripts read to them and for access...

12:55 p.m. President Barack Obama says there have been too many troubling police interactions with black citizens. Obama is calling the deaths of seve...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Katie Medley was nine months pregnant, so she picked a seat near the exit door, just in case she went into labor when her hus...

MIAMI (AP) — With the killers hiding in the trees, heat-sensing drones are launched into the air. When their whereabouts are narrowed, the dogs are se...

SEATTLE (AP) — Visitors flocked to the leafy enclosure at Seattle's zoo to watch the two elephants, Chai and Bamboo, as they used their long trunks to...

BOSTON (AP) — Testimony in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev zeroed in Tuesday on his late brother's wife, revealing searches done...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pivotal Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy did not tip his hand Tuesday as the high court heard historic arguments over the right...

BALTIMORE (AP) — National Guardsmen took up positions across the city and hundreds of volunteers began sweeping the streets of broken glass and other ...

WASHINGTON — Assuming there is no direct quid pro quo in the thicket of Clinton Foundation donations and State Department decisions — an assumption th...

7:40 p.m. People are looting stores at a mall where the riots in Baltimore started. As police moved away from the mall into a nearby neighborhood, the...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — It was no gaggle of geese, but two birds and a baby waddling through a downtown Montana city stopped traffic and brought out th...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The University of Rhode Island may have a new guard for its animal herd after a baby donkey was unexpectedly born. Jenny,...

SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone helped a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm drain. Spokesman Chad Duffaut ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The six Baltimore police officers suspended after a man suffered serious spinal injuries while in custody should tell the public wh...

BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev urged a jury Monday to spare the young man's life, portraying him as "a good kid" ...