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Correction: Immigration-Nowhere To Deport story

In a story May 28 about the stalled efforts to deport a U.S. refugee in Massachusetts, The Associated Press reported ...

Old South monument backers embrace "Confederate Catechism"

Sometimes it seems like the impassioned people who want to preserve Confederate monuments across the South are reading a ...

Newspaper: Ohio had more than 4,000 overdose deaths in 2016

A newspaper survey of Ohio county coroners has found more than 4,000 people died from drug overdoses last year in a state ...

San Francisco courts test new approach to homeless crimes

Courts around the country tried to ease the burden of fines and fees in the wake of riots in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 that ...

Slain Virginia officer was a father of 3, former Marine

A Virginia State Police special agent fatally shot by a convicted felon in a Richmond public housing complex was a father of ...

Girls are increasingly being married off in war-torn Yemen

Nasrine's husband was once a happy, optimistic man. He made good money from a restaurant and butcher shop he owned. "With his ...

Ex-Texas nurse accused of killing dozens of kids in 1980s

A Texas nurse who is in prison for the 1982 killing of a toddler has been charged with murder in the death of an infant a ...

Lawsuit: Arkansas man died after jail denied medical help

The family of an Arkansas man has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas accusing a for-profit jail and at least 12 guards and ...

As Trump announces famine aid, relief funds face big cuts

When President Donald Trump met Pope Francis this week, the U.S. leader renewed a commitment to fighting global famine and ...

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Trump Budget Dismays People Hit by Opioid Crisis

President Donald Trump released a federal budget that reduces funding for addiction treatment, research and prevention.

David Lifferth

Utah law that could send online bullies to jail criticized

Utah lawmakers hope a new, unusual law cuts down on increasingly troubling forms of cyber harassment by giving authorities ...

Cheryl Kennedy, Carina Miller, Fawn Sharp, Timothy Ballew, Mel Sheldon, Gary Burke

Tribes bash proposed Trump budget cuts to Native Americans

Dozens of Native American tribes in six Western states expressed outrage Thursday at President Trump's proposed budget cuts ...

US: Uzbek man serving sentence in terror plot stabbed warden

An Uzbek refugee serving 25 years behind bars for a plot to kill U.S. military personnel or civilians has been charged with ...

David Hallberg

Memoir from dancer David Hallberg coming in November

David Hallberg is working on a memoir about his rise from childhood bullying victim to principal dancer for the American ...

Gaza's Hamas rulers put to death 3 accused of killing member

Hamas said Thursday it put to death three men it had accused of killing a senior member of the militant Islamic group that ...

Trump seeks to end program for older jobless Americans

Nathan Singletary is beyond the traditional retirement age, but he's only just beginning a new career — helping other ...

Carson calls poverty a state of mind

Housing Secretary Ben Carson says poverty is a "state of mind." In a radio interview Wednesday, the former neurosurgeon said ...

Nikki Haley

On the Syrian border, Haley confronts civil war's reality

President Donald Trump's U.N. envoy set foot Wednesday in the no-man's-land between Syria and Turkey, witnessing the ...

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Medical Marijuana Aids Some Kids With Epilepsy

A clinical study on children in the United States, the UK and other parts of Europe claims medicine made from marijuana can ...

Science Says: What's known and not known about marijuana

A new marijuana study joins a limited record of scientific knowledge about the harms and benefits of pot. The research ...