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BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, were stumped when a woman from a nearly identically named town in the United Kingdom called to report a car crash. The Boston Globe reports (http...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Two women have been arrested on charges of holding four brothers captive at an illegal marijuana farm in Northern California and forcing them to work there for six months, police said Wednesday. The men r...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — When the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture opens this week alongside the Washington Monument and the National Museum of American History, it will firmly — and finally — anchor the b...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Bills being introduced in nearly a dozen cities will aim to force police departments to disclose the surveillance technologies they use, the American Civil Liberties Union and other transparency advocates a...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Greenland is losing about 40 trillion pounds more ice a year than scientists had thought, according to a new study that used GPS to help estimate how much is melting. So instead of losing on average 550 t...

NEW YORK (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — The genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa can be traced almost completely to a single exodus of humans from that continent long ago, new studies suggest. Still, a tiny legacy from an earlier exit m...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Another month, another global heat record smashed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday said August's temperature of 61.74 degrees (16.52 Celsius) was .09 degrees (.05 Celsius) warmer...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — A government report released Wednesday said climate change is likely to pose a significant national security challenge for the U.S. over the next two decades by heightening social and political tensions, t...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century. Zuckerberg...

JERUSALEM (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist's storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest e...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Katie Lantsberger gets to Columbia High School before 7 a.m. each day to brew coffee and roll a cart full of muffins, cookies and other treats down to the lobby. The sophomore wants to be ready when o...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — A North Carolina district attorney says he won't prosecute a high school teacher for stepping on an American flag during a lesson on the First Amendment. Cumberland County district attorney Billy W...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $12 million for environmental damages caused by a pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons (238,474 liters) of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River and prompted a national d...