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JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $264.4 million in fines to federal authorities to settle charges that it hired friends and relatives of Chinese officials in order to gain access to banking deals in that country.

A Minnesota man described as a leader of a group of nine who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge who said he didn't believe the man's tearful apologies and words of contrition.

The long-running drought in much of the Northeastern United States is expected to persist through the winter.

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A Pennsylvania man awaiting trial on child pornography charges is now accused of bringing a boy to a home where he and a friend assaulted the 9-year-old.

San Francisco's public schools have been offered a classroom lesson plan that calls President-elect Donald Trump a racist, sexist man who became president "by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base."

Georgia authorities say an autopsy found a man who was fatally shot during a foot chase with a Savannah police officer may have killed himself.

Wildlife officials have killed a bear that injured a woman in a rare attack in western Maryland.

New York's Yeshiva (yeh-SHEE'-vuh) University has chosen the head of a Jewish heritage center in Israel as its new president.

At least one person was killed and 10 others were injured in a large natural-gas explosion in Illinois Wednesday night.

A civil rights organization says an Ohio high school has reversed its decision to discipline a student who tried to expose a schoolmate's racism by reposting the classmate's remarks on the social media app Snapchat.

A Nov. 30 hearing is set for a judge to decide whether a mental evaluation is needed for an Oklahoma man charged in the shooting death of his Lebanese neighbor.

Rising energy costs pushed consumer prices higher in October, but overall inflation remains tame.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported its third-quarter profit fell 8.2 percent, dragged down by investments in e-commerce and its stores.

Court documents suggest that an Ohio man arrested for allegedly attempting to join the Islamic State group may be suffering from mental health issues.

A bystander who shot and killed a man who was attacking a deputy near a southwest Florida highway has been given a new gun to replace the one he used in the shooting.

Authorities in Georgia say a gun-toting 78-year-old woman chased two burglars from her home.

A couple who had 276 dogs in their bi-level New Jersey home have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.

Three African-American Civil War soldiers who served with units in Massachusetts were laid to rest with full honors in Pennsylvania after their remains spent more than 100 years in a backyard grave.

A judge is set to reconsider whether a man who acknowledges killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic is competent to continue his court case.