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A police task force is preparing to investigate a Detroit funeral home where 36 fetuses were found in boxes and 27 others in freezers

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has issued an executive order blocking offshore drilling

A former Michigan state trooper whose use of a Taser preceded the death of a 15-year-old Detroit boy says he "absolutely" believed the teen was armed and was "shocked" to learn there was no gun

With a moderate message and television ads appealing to Republican voters, Billie Sutton has courted enough cross-party support to put Democrats within striking distance of a governorship they haven't held in decades

Roger Federer made it 17 wins in a row at the Swiss Indoors when he defeated Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany 6-3, 7-5 to march into the quarterfinals

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The pediatric center where a severe viral outbreak left seven young people dead says it's offering grief counseling and a round-the-clock hotline for those affected

The president of Chicago's police union has urged a federal judge to reject a draft plan for overhauling the police department under close court supervision, saying it's likely to alienate officers

Major college football teams are on a record scoring pace this season and a more aggressive approach on fourth down is helping to fuel the surge

The governor's office says a super typhoon has killed one person when it slammed into the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Race dominates debate in final stretch of campaigns

With the long-delayed "London Fields" finally coming out, Amber Heard says she is happy to have moved on with her life

Former President Barack Obama is visiting one of Milwaukee's most impoverished black neighborhoods to campaign for Wisconsin Democrats in an effort to encourage African-Americans to vote

Victims of sexual abuse by Chile's most infamous pedophile priest are filing a criminal complaint against a former bishop who is an adviser to Pope Francis

A report says a Sri Lankan naval intelligence official has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the abduction and forced disappearance of two ethnic Tamil civilians during the island nation's civil war

Court records show a Kentucky man who police say fatally shot two people at a grocery store punched and choked his elderly parents at their home several years ago

Jordanian state media say 18 people were killed and three dozen injured when torrential rains swept away a group of students and teachers touring near the Dead Sea

Amid thousands of mostly Honduran migrants fleeing poverty and gang violence, a Nicaraguan family says political persecution and death await back them home

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has referred Julie Swetnick and attorney Michael Avenatti to the Justice Department for an investigation into whether they conspired to provide materially false statements to Congress

The Washington Supreme Court has upheld most of the state's charter school law, eliminating the specter that the classrooms serving about 3,400 students might have to close