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The United States has sent two detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their native Sudan, the Defense Department said Wednesday, the latest transfers in an effort to eventually close the controversial prison.
Firefighters made major progress Wednesday tamping down a late-fall wildfire that has destroyed homes in California’s scenic Big Sur region, incident commanders said Wednesday night, and it could be contained as early as Friday.
A panel of experts has rejected concerns by religious conservatives in Texas that a high school biology textbook contained factual errors about evolution and a state board approved the book on Wednesday for use in public schools.
A Nevada truck driver was charged Wednesday with helping Sikh separatist groups in India plan terrorist attacks.In a five-count grand jury indictment handed up in U.S.
A New York City college has issued a permanent ban on the Pi Delta Psi fraternity after a freshman was killed during an unsanctioned hazing ritual during a retreat in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains.
A Pennsylvania man was charged Wednesday with executing his accomplice in a Craigslist-related robbery because he had loose lips, police said.William McRae, 23, was tracked down to New York City four months after Brandon Fraser, 20, was found shot to death in a car in the Poconos.
A father threw his twin baby boys from the third floor of a burning building in the Bronx early Wednesday after screaming "somebody help me catch this baby," and the infants were caught and brought to safety.
Residents of the Northeast should finally get a chance to clean up this weekend following a messy commute Wednesday morning — a parting gift of the third major winter storm to hit the region this month.
^p^p^p^p^p Residents of the Northeast will finally get a chance to clean up this weekend after one last messy commute Wednesday morning, a parting gift of the third major winter storm to hit the region this month.
The Harvard student accused of emailing a bogus bomb threat to dodge a final exam has been released on a $100,000 bond and must stay away from the campus, a federal judge ordered Wednesday.
