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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A month after she admitted to an extramarital affair with her then-bodyguard, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry has pleaded guilty to theft of property. When Barry first admitted Ja...

PENN — Frozen beef is out. Fresh beef is coming to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. McDonald’s announced Tuesday that Quarter Pounders in every US store except for ones in Hawaii and Ala...

SEATTLE — Wreckage from the USS Lexington — a US aircraft carrier sunk by the Japanese during World War II — has been discovered 500 miles off the Australian coast by a team of explo...

WASHINGTON - In a remarkably public confrontation, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump pleaded with him Monday to back away from his threatened international ...

PYONGYANG — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a high-ranking South Korean government delegation that he wants to “write a new history of national reunification,” during an unprece...

WASHINGTON — The grinding pressure of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is starting to do strange things to people’s heads. How else to explain a staggering, real...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida State Senate narrowly passed a bill Monday that would raise the age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21, require a three-day waiting period for most gun purchases and ban th...

JACKSON, MISS. — The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi, tells The Associated Press he will resign April 1 because of health problems. The 80...

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — West Virginia’s House has voted to end abortion rights under the state constitution. The resolution was approved 73-25 Monday. The Senate passed it a month ago and it g...

NEW YORK — Martin Shkreli was ordered by a federal judge Monday to forfeit nearly $7.4 million as a result of his fraud convictions last year. Brooklyn Federal Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said he must ...