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The Associated Press A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island, generating a tsunami, forcing evacuations from many low-lying areas on the eastern shore. Early reports…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has closed following deadly insurgent attacks on a German Consulate and an American military base. In…

NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers struggling with post-election stress have found an outlet for the blues — by pouring their political souls onto sticky…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — From New York to Illinois to California, in red states as well as blue, protesters decrying Donald Trump’s election spent another…

CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A gunman with a history of domestic abuse fatally shot a police officer and wounded another on Thursday before he and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to a man…

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Hershey has come to the rescue of a college student who had his Kit Kat bar brazenly stolen. Kansas State University…

The Associated Press From Virginia coal country, as election results trickled in, Jimmy McDonald texted his boss to warn he might need a day off…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grab some snacks, the TV remote, your calculator and a schedule of poll closings. You might also want to caffeinate because it…

CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered near one of the world’s key oil hubs brought down building facades and shattered windows in…

ATLANTA (AP) — More than a dozen states have enacted tougher requirements for registering and voting since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a key provision…

There’s a chill in the air, but that’s no reason to feel the heat in your utility costs. Here are a few tips on how…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Time won’t fly this weekend. In fact, it’ll actually hitch a ride back. Daylight saving time is ending and it’s back to…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A federal jury on Friday found Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator in a…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A passionate advocate for making Puerto Rico the 51st U.S. state appears poised to become the next governor of…

BERLIN (AP) — Twin baby pandas born in August at the Vienna zoo finally have names. The male is called Fu Ban, meaning Lucky Companion….

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is examining whether the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline can be…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A flurry of Facebook check-ins to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation at the epicenter of a protest against the Dakota Access…

  HELENA, Ala. (AP) — For the second time in two months, a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people was shut down, raising…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grab some toothpicks to prop open your eyelids because Election Day promises to be a marathon. Polls open before dawn on Tuesday,…

NORCIA, Italy (AP) — Central Italy was hit by another powerful earthquake Sunday, toppling buildings that had recently withstood other major quakes and sending panicked…

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — A tense protest over the Dakota Access pipeline subsided at least temporarily after some protest leaders urged activists to leave…

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) – Law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters Thursday from private land…

  CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Armed soldiers and law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and driving trucks, military Humvees and buses moved in…

  VISSO, Italy (AP) — Officials in central Italy began early Thursday to assess the damage caused by a pair of strong earthquakes in the…

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they are poised to remove about 200 protesters trying to halt the completion of…

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The man who authorities say fatally shot a former co-worker and wounded three others before killing himself at a rail car…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for infants to be kept in their parents’ bedroom at night for six months…

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders? “Consider…

  WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — There has been little impact to the water supply so far from a ruptured pipeline during a freak storm in…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — You probably already know whether you’ll vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton on Election Day, leaving one important question to…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma and at least two other states said Friday that they have denied efforts by Russian officials to be present at…

LONDON (AP) — Cyberattacks on a key internet firm repeatedly disrupted the availability of popular websites across the United States Friday, according to analysts and…

BEIJING (AP) — Typhoon Haima barreled into southern China on Friday after hammering the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) – California regulators asked the public Wednesday to critique proposed regulations that would – eventually – allow self-driving cars that lack a…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Earth’s 16-month sizzling streak of record high temperatures is finally over, according to one group of federal meteorologists. The National Oceanic and…

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Government and industry officials say they are collaborating on an effort to replace the second human pilot in two-person flight crews…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Flooding spawned by Hurricane Matthew has caused $1.5 billion in damage to 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings in North Carolina,…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Firefighters in Nevada were hoping to stop a wind-driven wildfire, which has already destroyed 22 homes north of Carson City, from…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A tornado struck an Oregon beach town, sending debris flying and toppling power lines and trees as strong winds and heavy…

HARRISBURG (AP) – The registration deadline to vote in Pennsylvania’s election has come and gone, and state officials say counties are still tallying up the…

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Twenty-one of Nigeria’s Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago have been freed in a swap for…

BOSTON (AP) — A man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle shot two Boston police officers who were responding to a report…

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Homeowners, students and businesses in one of eastern North Carolina’s population centers are keeping a nervous watch on the river that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to reinvigorate his six-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, a…

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline will resume on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics says it is stopping production of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, a day after it halted global sales…

  FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The flooding disaster is forecast to slowly unfold over the next several days as all that rain — more than…

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Rail service resumed Monday at a New Jersey transit station damaged less than two weeks ago after a train crash that…

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A deteriorating Matthew was stripped of hurricane status Sunday morning and began making its slow exit to the sea after unloading…