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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A new plastic straw law had unexpected consequences when a man lashed out at a worker at a fast food chain.The Florida man had just received his order at a McDonald’s ...

CLEVELAND –A Jewish human rights organization is calling for the license of an Ohio doctor to be revoked after reports of anti-Semitic tweets, including one saying she would intentionally give J...

WASHINGTON (AP) - No one budged at President Donald Trump's closed-door meeting with congressional leaders, so the partial government shutdown persisted over his demand for billions of dollars to buil...

BEIJING (AP) - China's burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. The United States, the then-Soviet Union and more recently China have al...

DETROIT - As a staff sergeant with the Marines in Iraq, Paul Whelan enjoyed fine cigars and showed an affinity for Russia - even spending two weeks of military leave in Moscow and St. Petersburg inste...

NEW YORK (AP) - The roller-coaster ride on Wall Street resumed on Wednesday, the first trading day of the new year, as stocks plunged early on, then slowly recovered and finished with a slight gain. T...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Apple warns that disappointing iPhone sales will cause a significant drop in its revenue over the crucial holiday season compared to earlier projections. CEO Tim Cook made t...

LAUREL, Md. - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday the partial government shutdown will last "as long as it takes" as closures entered a 12th day over his demands for billions of dollars from Congress...

MODESTO, Calif. - A Mexican national was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of a California police officer last week, prosecutors said. Gustavo Perez Arriaga was expected to be arraig...