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ANDERSON, Alaska — In the wilds north of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, the U.S. military built a radar installation near Russian airspace during the Cold War, to detect incoming ballistic missiles...

A federal judge on Friday fined a Florida power company the maximum penalty of $500,000 for violating a federal safety rule and causing a 2017 explosion at a coal-fired power plant near...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily halted an election in Georgia on Friday, reviving a federal judge’s ruling that the state had adopted voting rules that disadvantaged Black voters in violation of...

Three men were indicted in the death of the notorious gangster James (Whitey) Bulger, who was beaten to death four years ago in a West Virginia federal prison where he was serving...

The recent resignations of all three election officials in a Texas county — at least one of whom cited repeated death threats and stalking — has created turmoil in an area that...

Guns, shopping carts and bottle caps, lots of bottle caps: these are among the discoveries made this summer by people who have taken up magnet fishing, a hobby that works exactly as...

JACKSON, Miss. — Like low-income pregnant women around the country, nearly every patient at the Sisters in Birth clinic here is covered by Medicaid, the public health insurance program for the poor....

I tell them that there are three causes of the Civil War: The first cause is slavery. The second cause is slavery. And the third cause is slavery. The Civil War was...

The Pacific Northwest is facing another summer heat spike, with temperatures likely to rise into the triple digits this week across parts of the region and in Northern California.Heat advisories from the...

A high-profile effort to oust George Gascón, the progressive district attorney of Los Angeles County, America’s most populous county, failed after election officials announced Monday that proponents of recalling Gascón had not...