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ATLANTA (AP) - Republican Sen. David Perdue was forced into quarantine Thursday in the home stretch of Georgia's high-stakes Senate runoffs, disclosing just five days before the election that he had b...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that will reduce American firepower in the region amid heightened tensions w...

Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - A back condition has forced Pope Francis to skip New Year's ceremonies at St. Peter's Basilica, a Vatican spokesman said Thursday.Francis was suffering from "painful sciatica" and ...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City police turned to familiar tactics ahead of Thursday's New Year's Eve celebrations, deploying bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard agains...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is planning a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to honor those killed by the coronavirus the day before he is sworn into office on J...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - William Link, who co-created the hit series "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote" and made 1970s and '80s TV movies about social issues then largely shunned by television, has died. He ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the first known case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the nation's most populated state, fol...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Longtime Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara signed with the Washington Capitals on Wednesday, a stunning move less than a week before most NHL teams open training camp. Chara agreed t...

The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. That delay could undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to exc...