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Sam Brownback defended his decision as Kansas governor to scrap an order that barred anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

Researchers who developed cryo-electron microscopy, a technique that lets us image viruses and tiny cell structures, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Authorities say they don't know if the woman has any connection to the Las Vegas massacre but they want to speak with her.

Working Families Join Together to Help Puerto Rico

As the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico continues, working people from across the country are joining together to help with recovery and rebuilding.

The AFL-CIO is teaming up with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Machinists (IAM) and United Airlines to fly more than 300 first responders and skilled volunteers to Puerto Rico to help with relief and rebuilding efforts. The flight was a response to the urgent need to get highly skilled workers to Puerto Rico to help people seeking medical and humanitarian assistance, as well as to help with the rebuilding effort. The nurses, doctors, electricians, engineers, carpenters and truck drivers on the flight will engage in various efforts, including helping clear road blockages, caring for hospital patients, delivering emergency supplies, and restoring power and communications. More than 20 unions have members on the flight.

The flight will be operated by members of ALPA and AFA-CWA who volunteered their time, and IAM members will work as ramp employees to support the flight. The flight...

The National Rifle Association has gone dark after the Las Vegas shooting but other activist groups say they're keeping close tabs on Republicans.

Police arrested a Bronx man for allegedly dealing crack and cocaine worth thousands of dollars out of a McDonald's he managed, prosecutors say.

As many as 2,000 leopard sharks have died in the San Francisco Bay in recent months, along with bat rays, striped bass, and halibut — and experts are baffled.

Police gave their first detailed recounting of what happened during Sunday's massacre of 58 people in Las Vegas as the investigation spread on many fronts.

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter will headline a hurricane relief benefit concert Oct. 21 at Texas A&M's Reed Arena.

Three U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers and one Nigerien soldier were killed in Niger on Wednesday, in an ambush by suspected Islamic militants operating from Mali.