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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio State official says former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has been hospitalized for more than a week....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The chief critic-elect of "Saturday Night Live," Donald Trump, is bashing the show and impersonator Alec Baldwin again - this time prodded into action Wednesday by NBC's own Matt Lauer....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Authorities investigating the California warehouse party fire that killed 36 people have said they are considering a criminal case - even murder charges. But as relatives learned after a nightclub fire killed 100 people in Rhode Island, any prosecution would be a long and complicated road that may not end with a feeling of justice....
ROME (AP) -- Italian Premier Matteo Renzi resigned Wednesday evening, his self-inflicted penalty for staking his job on constitutional changes voters resoundingly rejected earlier in the week. He will stay in a caretaker's role at the request of Italy's president until a new government can be formed....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A survivor of last year's massacre at a black South Carolina church testified Wednesday that her Bible study group had just closed their eyes and started praying when a loud sound shattered the stillness. The basement room went dark....
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Thousands of people observed a moment of silence before fighter jets streaked across the sky during a ceremony Wednesday at Pearl Harbor marking the 75th anniversary of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II and left more than 2,300 service people dead....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's government ignored a rebel cease-fire proposal for Aleppo on Wednesday as its forces captured new neighborhoods around the city center and squeezed some 200,000 tired and frightened civilians into a shattered and rapidly shrinking opposition enclave....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly carved out a reputation as a highly respected, but often outspoken commander who could roil debate with blunt assessments or unpopular directives on issues ranging from women in combat to the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet officers Wednesday whose backgrounds suggest he's primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even as he seemed to soften his yearlong stance on immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children....
(Vatican Radio) US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are meeting in Germany to discuss efforts to halt fighting in the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo. The two are meeting in the northern city of Hamburg on the sidelines of a gathering of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that opens Thursday.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Secretary of State Kerry, who is on a farewell tour in Europe, and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov meet at a time of mounting East-West tensions over how to end Syria's five-year civil war that has killed some 400,000 people.The focus of their talks will be on Aleppo as it has become a symbol of suffering.American officials have condemned what they view as the indiscriminate bombing of eastern Aleppo by Russian-backed Syrian government forces and reiterated their calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, a step that Russian and Chinese diplomats previously vetoed at the Un...
