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  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...

CANBERRA — Australia’s parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage Thursday after years of political jockeying and fierce public debate. Cheers and applause broke out as lawmakers voted...

BALTIMORE (AP) – The American Association of Retired Persons has filed a friend of the court brief in support of a Maryland law against pharmaceutical price gouging. The AARP announced the filin...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – Authorities have arrested more than two dozen people on drug and firearms charges in what prosecutors are describing as a “coordinated takedown” stemming from ...