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State lawmakers hold a special session Tuesday to discuss the response to Hurricane Florence. Legislators will decide how much money to appropriate for...

When writer Jo Maeder’s parents split up, she vividly remembers her dad announcing: I’m retiring and moving to Miami. Who is coming with me? She was...

Astronomers have found a distant dwarf planet that appears to confirm the existence of Planet Nine, a giant planet lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system.

Police Officer Jason Van Dyke faces charges in the Oct. 20, 2014, shooting of Laquan McDonald on busy street on Chicago's Southwest Side. On Tuesday, he gave a teary defense of that night.

The disasters crippled communications and damaged roads — problems that are also complicating efforts to bring aid to the city of Palu and other affected areas.

A plea deal that resulted in an Alaskan man serving no time after originally being charged with kidnapping and choking a woman has outraged activists in Anchorage. Enough is enough, many are saying.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham ran against Donald Trump for president in 2016 and warned he was "crazy" and "unfit for office." Now he's the president's top defender on Capitol Hill.

Officials say the policy promotes parity with opposite-sex couples. But critics fear for these foreign diplomats and staff, many of whom hail from countries where same-sex couples suffer persecution.

Amazon announced on Tuesday that it will raise wages to $15 an hour starting Nov. 1 for some 250,000 regular workers and 100,000 seasonal workers.

Jason Kander, an Army veteran and former Missouri secretary of state, dropped out of the race for Kansas City mayor on Tuesday, citing his struggles with PTSD.