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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE - Pope Francis declined Sunday to confirm or deny claims by the Vatican's retired ambassador to the United States that he knew in 2013 about sexual misconduct allegations agains...

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain's service to his country began more than six decades ago at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and will end there in a cemetery overlooking Maryland's Severn River. A pr...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Florida authorities are reporting a multiple people dead and "many transported" to hospitals after a mass shooting at a riverfront mall in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Sher...

(CNN) — A Pennsylvania judge on Friday dismissed the most serious charges against fraternity members in connection with the death of Timothy Piazza during a hazing ritual at Penn State Universit...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents about hush-money payments and damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 ...

NEW YORK - A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been arrested in New York on a sex abuse charge.The New York Police Department says Thomas Frieden was arrested ...

LAS VEGAS- Robin Leach, the debonair TV host who regaled audiences with talk of “champagne wishes and caviar dreams,” has died, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.He was 76.John Kat...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A nationwide telecommunications company that slowed internet service to firefighters as they battled the largest wildfire in California history says it has removed all speed cap r...

WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, has made the decision to discontinue medical treatment, his family said in a statement on Friday. “Last summer...

SHAVERTOWN, Pa. - A lacerating grand jury report on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania is especially difficult reading for a church where five of the accused priests served as pasto...