WASHINGTON — Growing up as a black teen, John Harris III says he wasn’t always sure about what he wanted to do with his life. But the 23-year-old, now part of the first generation of college students who saw the nation’s first black president elected, points to a newfound sense of purpose for him and other black graduates.
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National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday.
The Ohio man convicted of holding three women captive in his Cleveland house over a decade and raping them repeatedly was sentenced Thursday to life in prison plus 1,000 years.
President Barack Obama’s national security team acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that, when investigating one suspected terrorist, it can read and store the phone records of millions of Americans.
Police in Beaverton, Ore., say they used a stun gun seven times, but it had no effect on 18-year-old Jared Steven Leone, who had been high on mushrooms when he entered city hall.
More than 20 teachers, administrators and other employees at Clarksville High School will carry concealed weapons during the school day, making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed security guards on campus.
DALLAS — Getting people on and off an airplane quickly is so complicated that even an astrophysicist couldn’t figure it out.
CAIRO — Egypt’s military-backed government on Wednesday ordered the police to clear two Cairo protest camps packed with supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, saying they posed a threat to national security and were “terrorizing” citizens.
A Texas A&M freshman lineman and an incoming member of the University of Utah football team died in a single-car rollover crash in the high desert of northern New Mexico.
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that New York City’s Board of Health exceeded its legal authority and acted unconstitutionally when it tried to put a size limit on soft drinks served in city restaurants.
U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy – the most serious charge he faced – but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges Tuesday, more than three years after he spilled secrets to WikiLeaks.
Penn State’s ex-president and two former top school administrators were ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges accusing them of a cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The driver was on the phone with a colleague and reading a document as his train barreled ahead at 95 mph – almost twice the speed limit. Suddenly, a notorious curve was upon him.
An attorney for the man who was abandoned in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for four days without food or water says his client has agreed to settle claims for $4.1 million.
A series of explosions rocked a central Florida propane gas plant and sent “boom after boom after boom” through the neighborhood around it. Eight people were injured, with at least four in critical condition.
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