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By CALVIN WOODWARD, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and DAVID RISING Associated Press The terrorist attacks on the United States nearly 20 years ago brought…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press While the Sept. 11 attacks united much of America in grief and anger, conspiracy theories about what happened that…

By JERRY SCHWARTZ Associated Press Rudolph Giuliani was a hero before he was a punchline. Lisa Beamer was a wife and mother before she became a…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A grassroots group is using the centennial of a deadly fight to organize West Virginia coal…

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a gunman opened fire at a popular Southern California pier and wounded two people before police killed…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government says it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It has been 20 years since Taliban-led Afghanistan fell to a U.S.-led coalition in the…

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After a wildly successful career as a songwriter, the pandemic prompted Diane Warren to try a…

MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — A judge has sentenced an 84-year-old man to consecutive life sentences in connection with a 1976 double homicide. A jury…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A panel planning a permanent memorial at the Las Vegas site of the deadliest mass shooting in…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A school official in northern Nigeria says gunmen have released some of the more than 100…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen has resigned in the wake of revelations that leaders of the sexual…

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ruled that Jussie Smollett’s attorneys cannot call as a witness the Chicago prosecutor whose office dropped initial…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in the state of Virginia have filed a lawsuit asking the courts to remove Democratic…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strengthening Tropical Storm Nora is rolling toward a possible hurricane brush with Mexico’s Pacific Coast over the weekend…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Al Capone is infamous for having been a ruthless mob boss, but one of his granddaughters…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida postal clerk has pleaded guilty to stealing mail and passport applications as part of an identify theft scheme.…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Officials in Detroit are looking at making continued changes to city towing rules after several federal corruption…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists say the immediate potential for an eruption at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s top court has rejected an attempt to make it harder to impose the death…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The night before he was indicted this week, a Long Island dentist suspected of exchanging…

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Stephen Oates has died after a life that saw him become an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for parents suing to overturn the governor’s executive order…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United States has pledged another $32 million in aid to…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s minimum age to be married is now higher after Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill increasing it from 14 years old…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A school board in Virginia has agreed to pay $1.3 million in legal costs to the American Civil…

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — College football programs are transitioning from traditional paper tickets to digital…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Her cannons firing a powerful salute, a full-size replica of an 18th century merchant ship has sailed into port at the Swedish…