KENOSHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin high school is ending cheerleading awards given annually to girls with the largest breasts or buttocks — dubbed “B…
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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was granted a few more weeks of freedom Wednesday after his lawyer sa…
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WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who left home to join the Islamic State group in Syria is not a U.S. citizen and will not be allowed to return t…
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A small-town newspaper has called for a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, prompting two universities to withdraw the awards i…
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Pentagon to develop plans to create a new Space Force within the Air Force, accept…
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Sixteen states on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump’s national-emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.…
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The biggest supermoon of 2019 will appear in the night sky on Feb. 19. At 8:53 p.m. MST, it will be just 221,681 miles away from Earth — and d…
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WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he i…
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican operative, who last year rounded up votes for a GOP candidate running for Congress, conducted an illegal and well…
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JERUSALEM — Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protes…
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CHICAGO — Attorneys for "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett say there are no plans for him to meet with Chicago detectives Monday for a follow-up i…
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95.
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AYER, Mass. — Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison in Massachusetts.
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Last month, a Florida woman with autism who doctors thought might never be able to work a minimum wage job or live on her own was admitted to …
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AURORA, Ill. — An initial background check five years ago failed to flag an out-of-state felony conviction that would have prevented a man fro…
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A top adviser to President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term if…
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The outdoor recreation industry can help the nation’s efforts to break free from polluting fuels that contribute to global warming, a Grand Ju…
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Lawmakers say a federal budget compromise approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump provides $50 million of a…
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CHICAGO — The investigation into black actor Jussie Smollett's account of being beaten in a racist, anti-gay attack took a sharp turn Friday w…
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NEVIS, Minn. — Three people are dead and a sheriff's deputy is recovering from shrapnel wounds after a shooting incident in Nevis.
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WASHINGTON — Battling with one branch of government and opening a new confrontation with another, President Donald Trump announced Friday he w…
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SAUSALITO, Calif. — Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, trapping people in floodwaters, washing away a mountain highway, trigg…
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's plan to declare a national emergency to free up money for his border wall would be an extraordinary step…
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NEW YORK — Amazon will not build a new headquarters in New York City, a stunning reversal to an ambitious plan that would have brought an esti…
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WASHINGTON — The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump's demands for …
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PARKLAND, Fla. — Hundreds of thousands of students and adults across Florida and beyond observed a moment of silence Thursday to mark the firs…
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He bec…
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RIO RANCHO, N.M. — A shot was fired Thursday on the grounds of a suburban Albuquerque high school on the first anniversary of the Parkland, Fl…
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WASHINGTON — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview aired Thursday that he worried that investigations into President D…
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited plan for tackling the toxic chemicals contaminating the Widefield aq…
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WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran has been charged with revealing classified informatio…
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WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appears to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement…
- By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The national debt has passed a new milestone, topping $22 trillion for the first time.
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NEW YORK — Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operat…
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WASHINGTON • The Senate on Tuesday approved a major public lands bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of n…
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PARKLAND, Fla. — It's an image that has become emblematic of the Parkland school massacre : two terrified moms outside Marjory Stoneman Dougla…
- By ANDREW TAYLOR and ALAN FRAM Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's "unhappy" with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance con…
- By BEN WALKER Associated Press
NEW YORK — Could this really be the year that dachshunds get out of the Westminster doghouse?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators reached agreement Monday night to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new ba…
- By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
TAUNTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday…
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WASHINGTON — Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar "unequivocally" apologized Monday for tweets suggesting that members of Congress support Isra…
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NEW YORK • Toys R Us fans in the U.S. should see the iconic brand re-emerge in some form by this holiday season.
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Immigrants from Honduras and Nepal have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets them live and wor…
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LOS ANGELES — Rap artists and women have felt shunned by the Grammy Awards in recent years. But this year, they both took center stage.
- By SARA BURNETT Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday joined the growing group of Democrats jostling to be president and positioned herself as …
- By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Bargainers clashed Sunday over whether to limit the number of migrants authorities can detain, tossing a new hurdle before negoti…
- By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Long before an ex-student opened fire on his former classmates in Parkland, Florida, many school districts conducted regular s…
- By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press
PARKLAND, Fla. — The massacre that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School pushed students, parents, officials and others into th…
- AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — More than 120 visitors and staff who were snowbound in a Sierra Nevada resort for five days have been freed, authorities said Friday.
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WASHINGTON — A second woman accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault Friday, saying the Democrat raped her 19 years ago whil…