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Rain tapers, but water is rising in S.C.

Dams overflowing, some communities entirely cut off and lack drinking water

Mass shootings conceal daily toll

22 shot to death every day in U.S.

Federal watchdog reopening latest probe of Secret Service

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog is reopening the investigation into efforts by the Secret Service to discredit a congressman who was investigating the agenc...

Missing ship sank, 1 body found, search ongoing

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Coast Guard said Monday that a U.S. cargo ship carrying 33 people has been missing since it encountered high winds and heavy seas from Hurricane Joaquin and sank. On...

Divisive social issues fill Supreme Court’s agenda

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s new term began Monday with no cross words between the justices, although a steady stream of divisive social issues awaits them in the coming months. ...

Supreme Court to face politically charged docket

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court begins its new term on Monday under an election-year spotlight, with a chief justice who’s become a campaign issue and a docket that seems designed to remind A...

Gas leak suspected after blast kills 1 in N.Y.

Gas line may not have been properly detached after stove removal in Brooklyn, authorities say

Nation & World Briefs

Pentagon: Afghan situation ‘confused, complicated’ MADRID – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Sunday promised a full and transparent investigation into whether a U.S. aircraft ...

Chaffetz enters race for speaker

Republican says he can bring change, bridge party divide

Dangerous storm brings misery to S.C.

Six deaths related to the rainstorm reported

After shootings, Trump defends 2nd Amendment Says teachers, students should be armed

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday channeled 1970s action star Charles Bronson in defending Second Amendment rights in the aftermath of the shooting...

Gunman spared student to take package to police

ROSEBURG, Ore. – As a 26-year-old killer gunned down victims inside a college classroom, he spared one student and gave him a package to deliver to authorities, according to the grandmother ...