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A 91-year-old veteran who was dismissed from the U.S. Air Force as "undesirable" in 1948 because he's gay is suing in Connecticut to have his discharge status upgraded.

An influential seminary affiliated with The Episcopal Church has announced that it will no longer issue degrees starting next year, and is reporting a net loss of $7.9 million in assets since last year.

Authorities say a Florida Panhandle deputy fatally shot a man who was trying to take another deputy's gun.

Police say a Florida officer shot and seriously wounded a 25-year-old man threatening officers with a machete.

A man in New Jersey tried to surprise his friend at her home – only for the woman to shoot and kill him by accident Thursday night, police said.

A mall Santa Claus is out of a job for telling a 10-year-old girl that there was one person on his naughty list and it was Hillary Clinton.

The FBI joined the search Friday for a missing newborn after her father found the baby's mother shot to death in their Kansas home, police announced.

The Latest on a police shootout with a suspect near the Nevada-Utah line (all times local): 2:20 p.m.

A woman hiding in a closet at a Florida nightclub described gunman Omar Mateen spraying bullets throughout the club during the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.

A woman tried to hang a 1-year-old toddler Friday morning in a Minneapolis day care center before escaping in a minivan and hitting two people, authorities say, adding that the young boy managed to survive.

President-elect Donald Trump's choices for leadership posts threaten national unity and promise to turn back the clock on progress for racial, religious and sexual minorities, civil rights leaders and others said Friday after his nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general.

Authorities say a New Jersey man was arrested after racking up over 300 toll violations and failing to pay more than $20,000 in tolls and fees.

A Minnesota police officer has appeared in court on charges stemming from the shooting death of a black man during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb this summer.

The California drought has killed more than 102 million trees in a die-off of forests that increases the risk of catastrophic wildfires and other threats to humans, officials said Friday.

A Texas judge on Friday ruled that a man is mentally competent enough to be executed next month for fatally shooting his two young daughters more than 15 years ago while their mother listened helplessly over the phone.

A suspect in a shootout with police near the Nevada-Utah line was hospitalized with a gunshot wound Friday after he allegedly fired his gun inside a strip club, fled the scene and crashed outside a Nevada casino along U.S. Interstate 80, authorities said.

Students at a south Texas high school are under fire for putting on a skit last week in their English class that portrayed an assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

Authorities say a school bus crashed and rolled over on an interstate off-ramp in Nashville, sending 23 students to the hospital, all of whom were expected to survive.

A deputy U.S. marshal was shot and killed in southeastern Georgia Friday morning while trying to arrest a man with a history of targeting police, investigators announced, adding that law enforcement shot and killed the suspect.

Lawyers for a Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkey of masterminding a failed coup say they remain confident he won't be extradited.