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"What we have to remember is that we can still do anything," Marina Keegan wrote to fellow Yale University graduates. "... We can't, we must not lose this sense of possibility because in the end,... more

The son of Malcolm X's biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations, claiming his family is the... more

A Hawaii zip line tower collapsed because of weak soil, sending a worker plunging 200 feet to his death, concluded an investigation released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor and Industrial... more

The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant operated for three decades with equipment that might have temporarily cut off the plant's emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake,... more

President Barack Obama's reference Tuesday to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero is drawing complaints from a Polish cultural organization.<a class="tagLink"... more

Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of... more

A man campaigning outside a South Texas police and fire station serving as a polling place in Tuesday's Texas primaries was shot in the leg in an apparent drive-by shooting, but authorities hadn't... more

College and university students from Quebec and the provincial government returned to the bargaining table Tuesday for a second day of talks in an attempt to end a sometimes violent months-long... more

Manager, hospital spokeswoman say Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson dies at 89 in NC. more

The National Spelling Bee is planning a world bee.Bee officials on Tuesday announced plans for a competition that will crown a team of world champion spellers of the English language, starting as... more