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Tim Allen won bragging rights over Candice Bergen in the first week of the television season.

A human trafficking survivor from Texas has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the social media giant provides traffickers an unrestricted way to "stalk, exploit, recruit, groom ... and extort children into the sex trade."

A day after Las Vegas marked the first anniversary of a mass shooting, former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords sought to rally gun violence survivors, Democratic candidates and activists in a push to register young voters and elect candidates who back gun control

Major League Baseball's average attendance dropped 4 percent to 28,830, its lowest since 2003 after 14 consecutive seasons topping 30,000, and six stadiums set record lows

Whirlwind year lets 'Venom's' Michelle Williams realize her own worth

A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Sept. 24-30

French authorities freeze assets of internal security section of Iran's Intelligence Ministry, all but point finger at Tehran as the force behind alleged plot to bomb an Iranian exile group's rally near Paris

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading back to North Korea for another round of talks aimed at getting Kim Jong Un to give up nuclear weapons

In Georgia, black rural voters could be especially important as Stacey Abrams campaigns to become the nation's first black female governor

A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald is telling the jury that he opened fire when McDonald kept "advancing" at him waiving a knife

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Duane Mitchell, University of Florida(THE CONVERSATION) There are moments in the history of scientific achievement that benchmark the end of an era and the beginning of a new phase of reality for mankind. The significance of these inflection points is sometimes readily apparent. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first step onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, marked a new

Delta Air Lines says it's partnering with a pet travel pod startup, as it changes its prices and policy for transporting passengers' animal-companions

Environmental groups opposing the site of an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota want a judge to reconsider his recent recommendation that state regulators dismiss the groups' challenge

The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" has died at a Lubbock hospital

Authorities have raised a giant, iconic Mexican flag to half-mast in Mexico City's main square in commemoration of the 1968 massacre of student protesters by army troops 50 years ago

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is swinging by Venus on its unprecedented journey to the sun.

Minnesota Twins fire manager Paul Molitor after 78-84 finish

President Donald Trump is set to promote his new North American trade agreement and the nation's economic performance in Philadelphia on Tuesday, a day after he heralded the agreement in a Rose Garden press conference

Toronto Maple Leafs' goalie depth is suddenly thin after losing Curtis McElhinney and Calvin Pickard on waivers