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Shortly after last year's shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a working group to explore possible reforms to state gun laws.
BATESVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Testimony resumes Tuesday in the retrial of a man accused of setting a woman on fire on a north Mississippi backroad.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting (all times local):
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man is accused of kidnapping two women at gunpoint and sexually assaulting one of them.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is set Wednesday to raise interest rates for a third time this year and possibly modify the likely direction of rates in the months ahead.
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. — The lush plains east of Yosemite National Park offer a window into a bygone California — a place where sage grouse welcome the arrival of spring with theatrical mating rituals and cattle graze on verdant pastures.
Her 1991 testimony against Clarence Thomas riveted the nation, but failed to derail his nomination to the Supreme Court. Now, 27 years later, Anita Hill says the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing — with no FBI investigation and no witness testimony — is destined to be unfair, just as she …
PHOENIX (AP) — Senate Republicans are bringing in Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to handle questioning about allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, describing her as tough, experienced and, above all, objective.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is set Wednesday to raise interest rates for a third time this year and possibly modify the likely direction of rates in the months ahead.
CHICAGO (AP) — The sixth-graders, from very opposite sides of the street, sat in pairs, a list of questions before them: "What do you dream about?" ''Do you think about dying?" ''Are you scared?"
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More world leaders step up to the podium at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday but the lion's share of attention will be down the hall where U.S. President Donald Trump will be chairing the Security Council.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is hoping Congress can come up with a new set of national rules governing how companies can use consumers' data that finds a balance between "privacy and prosperity."
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A publicist for once-beloved actor Bill Cosby complained that his conviction and three- to 10-year prison term for sexual assault Tuesday stem from a racist and sexist justice system, as the defense vowed to appeal the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Notable events in the U.S. involving bump stocks, the device used in last year's Las Vegas massacre to allow guns to fire like fully automatic firearms:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who was deported from the United States six times was expected in court Wednesday to face charges after police say he killed three people and injured four in attacks targeting sleeping homeless men in California.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A court ruling that blocked grizzly bear hunts in the U.S. West carries far wider political implications amid a push by Congress for sweeping changes to how imperiled species are managed.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The so-called "Grand Central of the West" is closed out of safety concerns after workers discovered a crack in a support beam of the $2 billion transit terminal that opened just last month.
Una serpiente cabeza de cobre oriental de dos cabezas en el Centro de Vida Silvestre de Virginia, el 20 de septiembre de 2018. (Foto Centro de Vida Silvestre de Virginia vía AP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold Instagram to Facebook in 2012, the photo-sharing startup's fiercely loyal fans worried about what would happen to their beloved app under the social media giant's wings.
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Developers of a natural gas pipeline set to run through West Virginia and Virginia say the project's cost has risen from $3.7 billion to $4.6 billion.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Texas man suspected of killing three people and seriously injuring four in a string of attacks on sleeping Southern California men — most of them homeless — had a long criminal history and had been deported from the United States six times, immigration officials said Tue…
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate who taunted a jury to sentence him to death is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening for torturing and drowning an East Texas woman in his bathtub and then stuffing her body into a barrel.
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Former welterweight champion Victor Ortiz has been charged with raping a woman inside a home in March.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Between shifts ladling hot meals at the dining hall, Deborah Ramirez did her best to fit in with the blue-blooded social set of Yale University in the 1980s. She took a chartered flight to the Bahamas sophomore year with dozens of other spring breakers and attended booz…
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Between shifts ladling hot meals at the dining hall, Deborah Ramirez did her best to fit in with the blue-blooded social set of Yale University in the 1980s. She took a chartered flight to the Bahamas sophomore year with dozens of other spring breakers and attended booz…
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — A week ago, firefighters in Conway went to a neighborhood and told surprised residents their houses would flood from Hurricane Florence even though they had never had water in them before.
CHICAGO (AP) — The trial of a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the death of black teenager Laquan McDonald resumes with the defense presenting evidence for a third day.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is headed back to a Florida courtroom for a status hearing on his death penalty case.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a man suspected in brutal beatings of homeless men in Southern California (all times local):
BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin museum that holds the record for the world's largest collection of angels is closing.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Warning that the world has a bad case of "trust deficit disorder" and risks "runaway climate change," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged global leaders Tuesday to abandon unilateralism and reinvigorate cooperation as the only way to tackle the challenges and …
CHICAGO (AP) — Charlie Branda is not an artist. When she opened an art studio on a stretch of asphalt known as Sedgwick Street, the 53-year-old mom and former commercial banker simply wanted to get to know her neighbors and to connect two sides of a thoroughfare that divides black and white,…
DENVER (AP) — Marlin Briscoe had to demand a tryout to be considered at quarterback when he was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 1968. He ended up becoming the first black quarterback to start in the American Football League.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing (all times local):
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The latest on the United Nations General Assembly (all times local):
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — An 18-year-old Illinois man facing conspiracy and weapons allegations has pleaded guilty to the charges.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — At an age when other Hollywood stars are settling into retirement and collecting lifetime-achievement awards, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was led away to prison in handcuffs Tuesday, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars in what was seen by many of his accusers as a…
Quotes from the hearing and reactions to Bill Cosby's sentence of three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a Temple University athletics administrator at his suburban Philadelphia home:
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Environmental and tribal groups asked Minnesota regulators on Tuesday to reconsider their approval of Enbridge Energy's plans to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chinese citizen living in Chicago was arrested Tuesday for allegedly spying, including by helping with the recruitment of U.S. engineers, defense contractors and scientists for intelligence services in China, federal prosecutors said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (all times local):
It was 2005 when Andrea Constand reported that a year earlier, when she was manager of the women’s basketball team at Temple University, she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by her mentor at the school — Bill Cosby.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The 11-year-old boy looked nervous facing a judge Tuesday, realizing the trouble he was in for threatening to “shoot up” his middle school.
ARCHIVO - En esta fotografía de archivo del 20 de septiembre de 2006, el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez sostiene una versión en español de “Hegemonía o supervivencia. La estrategia imperialista de Estados Unidos” de Noam Chomsky mientras se dirige a la Asamblea General en la sede de la ON…
ARCHIVO - En esta fotografía de archivo del 27 de septiembre de 1960, el presidente de Cuba Fidel Castro habla en la Asamblea General en la sede de la ONU. (AP Foto/NC)
ARCHIVO - En esta fotografía de archivo del 23 de septiembre de 2010, el presidente de Irán Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sostiene copias del Corán, izquierda, y la Biblia, derecha, mientras habla en la Asamblea General en la sede de la ONU. (AP Foto/Richard Drew, Archivo)
ARCHIVO - En esta fotografía de archivo del 12 de octubre de 1960, el premier soviético Nikita Jrushchov golpea con sus puños el escritorio en las Naciones Unidas durante un debate sobre colonialismo en la Asamblea General en la sede de la ONU. (AP Foto, Archivo)
ARCHIVO - En esta fotografía de archivo del 13 de noviembre de 1974, Yasser Arafat choca sus manos sobre su cabeza mientras se dirige a la Asamblea General de la ONU en la sede de Naciones Unidas. (AP Foto/Marty Lederhandler, Archivo)
ARCHIVO - En esta fotografía de archivo del 23 de septiembre de 2009, el líder libio Moammar Gadhafi muestra una copia rota de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas durante su sesión en la Asamblea General en la sede de la ONU. (AP Foto/Richard Drew, Archivo)
