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The shift from in-person to remote learning is giving some teachers unprecedented video access into their students’ homes.

The change of the seasons means another major transition is coming: The clocks will change for the end of daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Nov. 1, giving us an extra hour in our day.

With America roiling over questions of racial justice and a divisive election just days away, the AP Road Trip team made its way to Mississippi, and the scene of an infamous 1964 triple murder of civil rights workers fighting for Black voting rights.

Citing insufficient evidence, a judge on Wednesday threw out extortion charges against the leader of a Mexican megachurch but left in place accustations of child rape and human trafficking. The California attorney general’s office failed to show that Naasón Joaquín García, the self-proclaimed apostle of La Luz del Mundo, extorted sex acts fro...

A trio of space travelers has safely returned to Earth after a six-month mission on the International Space Station

The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court order that would have permitted curbside voting in Alabama in November.

Former President Barack Obama held his first rally for Joe Biden Wednesday in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump spent the day before the final presidential debate campaigning in North Carolina.

A voting rights group says that caravans of flag-waving President Donald Trump supporters appeared to obstruct and intimidate voters at two polling locations in predominantly ethnic-minority neighborhoods last weekend in the Albuquerque area.

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the U.S. government has confirmed Iran and Russia had obtained voter registration information. “We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters,” said Ratcliffe. “Know that our election systems are resilient and you can be confident your votes are secure.”

An attorney for E. Jean Carroll, the woman who has accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s, said it was a “shocking scenario for the government to just, essentially surrender, and not even try to argue the case.”

The North Carolina woman says her faith discouraged her from sitting out this election.

Amnesty International says Nigeria’s security forces have fired on two large gatherings of peaceful protesters, killing 12 people who were calling for an end to police brutality.

Hospitals around the United States are starting to buckle from a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, with several states setting records for the number of people hospitalized and leaders scrambling to find extra beds and staff.