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The Associated Press Parents, students and taxpayers in Pennsylvania would get a new look at how their public schools are doing under a proposed revamp…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has put Russia’s Vladimir Putin on notice that the U.S. could use offensive cyber muscle to retaliate for interference…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate flag is gone from South Carolina’s Statehouse. The bullet holes have been patched in Emanuel AME’s fellowship hall. And…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is giving consumers a few extra days to sign up on HealthCare.gov in time for health insurance coverage to…

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon — massive hacks that steal secrets and…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal prosecutors have charged two former pharmaceutical executives with fixing prices of generic drugs, part of an ongoing government investigation into anticompetitive…

BEIRUT (AP) — A cease-fire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Aleppo effectively collapsed on Wednesday, with fighter jets resuming…

BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge that’s raised millions of dollars nationwide for ALS research is being honored…

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials estimate more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from a pipeline into a North Dakota creek. State environmental…

The Associated Press A federal judge is rejecting a Green Party-backed request to recount paper ballots in Pennsylvania’s presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Cuba signed a first-ever agreement on closer ties on Monday, and vowed that the arrival in office of…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building before a celebration of his life of military and government service…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Five people were killed in northeastern Bulgaria following a gas explosion on a derailed tanker train early Saturday, national radio reported….

NEW YORK (AP) – What beverage goes best with lobster rolls, a bagel sandwich stuffed with whitefish, or a bowl of ramen? Coke wants you…

ERIE (AP) – Pennsylvania State Police say a crash involving at least 13 vehicles has shut down a snowy section of Interstate 90 just south…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation’s youth. In a report being released Thursday,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study says the Republican plan to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law risks making nearly 30 million people uninsured….

WASHINGTON (AP) – The longest, loudest standing ovation of the Kennedy Center Honors gala wasn’t reserved for Al Pacino, Mavis Staples or the Eagles. Instead,…

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white police…

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Protesters celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from a tribal water…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — As investigators searched for signs of a crime in the fire that killed at least 36 in an Oakland warehouse during…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The converted warehouse known as the “Ghost Ship” where a deadly fire ripped through a late-night dance party was an artist…

DALLAS (AP) — Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs that he perfected sold for…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Thomas Edison’s door key to the 19th century lab in New Jersey where he invented the phonograph goes up for auction…

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Crews discovered the remains of more people as they searched the rubble of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government is expected to forgive at least $108 billion in student loan debt as part of popular plans that tie…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper printed its last edition and has laid off 106 workers as it transitions into an online-only publication. Wednesday’s…

  The Associated Press Possible tornadoes swept through parts of Alabama and Tennessee overnight, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen as heavy…

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — In the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, a Tennessee tourist mecca emerged from the smoke, charred and vacant after a…

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Wildfires fueled by high winds killed three people near the Great Smoky Mountains and authorities went door to door Tuesday to…

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Raging wildfires fueled by high winds forced the evacuation of thousands of people and were believed to have wiped out…

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — A massive shelter has finally been installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, one of the most ambitious…

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Seven people were sent to the hospital Monday morning after an active shooter was reported on campus, the Columbus Fire…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Fidel Castro’s passing removes what was long the single greatest psychological barrier to a warmer U.S.-Cuba relationship. But it also adds to…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Police say one man is dead and nine others injured following a shooting in the French Quarter. Police Superintendent…

HAVANA (AP) — Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of…

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A senior has been charged with launching a cyberattack on her western Pennsylvania high school that wound up disrupting more than…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores open their doors Friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is urging governors and school leaders in states that allow student paddling to end a…

  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A school bus driver who authorities say was speeding along a narrow, winding Tennessee road when he wrapped his vehicle…

  TOKYO (AP) — At first, it was 2011 all over again. “It really came back. And it was so awful. The sways to the…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Layoff notices are going out to more than 500 Pennsylvania state employees because of a dispute over additional state funding for…

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Tension flared anew on the Dakota Access pipeline as protesters tried to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania residents with minor criminal convictions that are at least a decade old have begun applying to seal those cases from public…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Parts of Pennsylvania could see some snow on the ground over the weekend. A strong cold front will lower temperatures and the…

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump will be holding more meetings at New York City’s Trump Tower as he prepares his administration. Transition officials…

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Starting campfires, lighting fireworks and smoking cigarettes are among the outdoor activities being banned across the South as fires burn…

  OREM, Utah (AP) — Five students were stabbed inside the boy’s locker room of their Utah high school Tuesday and a 16-year-old boy identified…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — President Barack Obama arrived in Greece Tuesday morning on the first stop of his final foreign tour as president, the first…