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MILWAUKEE — Shaken by two nights of violent unrest in the Sherman Park neighborhood, Milwaukee authorities imposed a 10 p.m. citywide curfew for teens Monday while faith leaders took to the streets to pray and talk with residents. The combination of law, order and faith was an attempt to break a cycle of violence that

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction and other crimes after squandering her once-bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy. Four years after Kane’s election in a landslide as the first Democrat and first woman elected attorney general, a jury of six men and six women

For more than two decades, the lunatic fringe has gradually taken control of the Republican Party, thanks to craven media figures like Fox News’s Sean Hannity. A man who purports to be a dutiful Catholic, Hannity has made a career out of violating the ninth commandment (or eighth in his faith) against lying about others.

PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Monday denied Bill Cosby’s request to reseal excerpts from a 2005 deposition in which he discussed his extramarital affairs and the use of drugs to seduce young women. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit declared moot the question over the documents’ release, which

The mayor of the US city of Milwaukee says a still image pulled from a police officer’s body camera shows “without question” that the black man shot by an officer was holding a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting. 23-year-old Sylville K.Smith was shot after a traffic stop on Saturday. His

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. — Firefighters are battling a 3,000-acre wildfire in Northern California that destroyed at least 175 buildings and forced about 1,400 residents to flee their lake community, authorities said Monday. The fast-moving Clayton fire broke out late Saturday afternoon off Highway 29 and Clayton Creek Road, forcing the entire community of Lower Lake —

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump outlined an anti-terrorism plan Monday that included “extreme vetting” of anyone from terrorist hotbeds trying to enter the United States, fine-tuning his controversial proposal to temporarily ban Muslims. The intense vetting would aim to root out potential terrorists by identifying individuals who do not share and respect American values, including

SEATTLE — Bill Bryant, Washington state’s Republican candidate for governor, has finally taken a public stand on the Donald Trump question: He doesn’t support the GOP nominee for president. “Obviously, Bill has tried to avoid having this Trump conversation, because that’s not what this election is about,” spokesman Jason Roe told The Seattle Times in

In the early hours of D-Day 1944, the Allies landed 156,000 troops on the beaches of France, spelling doom for the Third Reich. In Berlin, 756 miles away, night-owl Adolf Hitler slept peacefully through the largest invasion in history. No aide dared awaken the boss with such bad news. Being a messenger can indeed be