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WASHINGTON - Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb a...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday issued a statewide mask mandate amid a spike in coronavirus cases, setting up a conflict with Republican legislative leaders who oppose such a req...

ATLANTA - John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated as an American hero on Thursday at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court said Thursday it plans to review a decision ordering the dismissal of the Justice Department's case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. T...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built - a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers - blasted off for the red planet Thursday as pa...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is for the first time publicly floating a "delay" to the Nov. 3 presidential election, as he makes allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud. T...

ATLANTA - Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has died after battling the coronavirus. He was 74. A post on Cain's Twitter account on Thursday announced the death. Cain had been ill with the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fending off accusations of stifling competition, four Big Tech CEOs - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple - are answering f...

Burt Bacharach has been working on an ending.Not that he's ready to call it quits on a career that began in the 1950s. Instead, the acclaimed composer is enjoying a burst of creativity at age 92, than...

WASHINGTON - The United States is criticizing a number of eastern and central European nations, including Poland, for failing to compensate Holocaust victims and their families and communities for pro...