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At least 10 NFL teams will send personnel to watch Colin Kaepernick’s league-arranged workout Saturday, a league source with direct knowledge…

Utility giant Southern California Edison has agreed to pay $360 million to settle claims with 23 cities and counties impacted by three recent…

In 2008 Ruben Martinez Jr. was sentenced to 47 years and eight months in prison for a series of armed robberies, even though he was at work when two…

Massachusetts residents can now choose a nonbinary gender designation on their driver’s licenses and ID cards. On Tuesday, the gender…

The Houston Astros organization said it’s cooperating with a Major League Baseball investigation of allegations the team used a hidden camera…

Three ex-employees of a shuttered Northern California alternative school each face an involuntary manslaughter charge after a 2018 incident in which…

Here is a look at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Facts There are 18.2 million veterans in the United States, according to the most recent…

A transgender woman is suing Dunkin’ Donuts and one of its Pennsylvania franchisees after, the woman alleges, managers at a Bethlehem store…

Here’s a look at the life of former CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Personal Birth date: September 25, 1943 Birth…

Lawyers for Rodney Reed, the Texas inmate set to be executed next week, said in a legal filing that testimony from seven new witnesses help to prove…

Making other people feel good feels good, and, best of all, it requires little more than a generous heart. Kindness pays off in dividends: Studies…

This was originally published in the November 13 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers.…

Here’s a look at the life of American fashion designer and philanthropist Ralph Lauren. Personal Birth date: October 14, 1939 Birth place:…

An immense prehistoric primate that once roamed southern China was first discovered in 1935 after a scientist found a jaw bone in a traditional…

Here’s a look at the life of civil rights activist and clergyman Jesse Jackson. Personal Birth date: October 8, 1941 Birth place: Greenville,…

Here’s a look at the life of journalist and former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather. Personal Birth date: October 31, 1931…

Here is a look at the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Facts Nineteen men hijacked four fuel-loaded US commercial airplanes bound for west…

After police found 4-year-old Zya Singleton badly injured, her caretaker told them that the girl had fallen out a second-floor window while playing…

When the Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021, it will touch down in Jezero Crater, the site of a lake that existed 3.5 billion…

For a little over a year, a tiny unmanned Japanese spacecraft has been sampling the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, capturing images,…

Pope Francis has condemned anti-Semitism, describing the persecution of Jews as “neither human or Christian.” Departing from prepared…