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  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Thursday to be National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Trump signed the proclamation at a White House ceremony ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says the president’s throat was merely dry when he seemed to slur his words. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was responding to internet spec...

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white former South Carolina police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting an unarmed black motorist to death in 2015. A federal judge hand...

  HONOLULU (AP) — Pearl Harbor survivor Gilbert Meyer says he has returned to the site of the 1941 Japanese bombing because of his shipmates from the USS Utah. He says he comes to pay his r...

  1:15 PM EST UPDATE: AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State Police say the suspect in a high school shooting is among the three dead. Police didn’t release details about the shooter but...

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota is resigning following allegations that he touched women inappropriately, he announced on the Senate floor Thursday. R...

THE PENTAGON — The Defense Department is taking steps to receive transgender recruits into the ranks as soon as January 1, the Pentagon said Wednesday.“The Deputy Secretary of Defense and ...

DETROIT — John Conyers III — who was endorsed by his father, former Rep. John Conyers, to fill his now-empty House seat — was reportedly involved in an incident that resulted in his ...

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of firefighters are working around the clock to battle fast-moving wildfires in Southern California as fears grow that winds might make matters worse on Thursday. Winds ar...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital could temporarily derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, two senior White H...