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By PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — When Manhattan’s original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963, it marked the undignified end to one of America’s great public works, a monolithic Beaux Arts train terminal with Roman-style columns and a spacious …

By WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt boxed. Richard Nixon bowled. Dwight D. Eisenhower put in a putting green. George H.W. Bush added a horseshoe pit. Herbert Hoover played a game named for himself to get more exercise, while …

By MIKE CATALINI A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins …

By SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI BENI, Congo (AP) — The memories come flooding back whenever Vianney Kambale Kombi hears the word Ebola. He remembers the pain and fear in his community in the eastern Congo city of Beni during the 2018-2020 …

By MELANIE LIDMAN TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For over 2 1/2 years, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon have lived in dread of Avichay Adraee’s next social media post. Israel’s Arabic-language military spokesman has been the …

By RODRIQUE NGOWI CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin. Researchers …

By PETER SMITH ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Southern Baptists are beginning their annual meeting Tuesday morning, where church representatives in the staunchly conservative evangelical denomination are expected to vote on a constitutional amendment that would formally ban churches with women …

By ROB GILLIES TORONTO (AP) — A new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gordie Howe International …

Evanston Township High School is closed until at least Wednesday because of a cyberattack that occurred over the weekend, school officials announced. A ransomware attack “disrupted access to district systems, internet services and computer infrastructure” and forced the school to …

PHILADELPHIA — Somebody had to represent the lowly White Sox in All-Star Games during the depths of their rebuild. That’s no knock on Shane Smith, Garrett Crochet or Luis Robert Jr., each of whom had admirable enough showings to earn …

The recruiting timeline for one of the top basketball prospects in Illinois might have been unorthodox, but it sure made the final days of his high school years memorable. Lincoln Williams, who has been the top uncommitted prospect in the …

La Policía de Chicago cerró rápidamente una investigación sobre un accidente de choque y fuga que involucró a un agente federal de inmigración mientras detenía a un hombre la semana pasada en Albany Park, según informó el Chicago Sun-Times. El …

Q: David Rubio of Grand Terrace asked, if a freeway has three lanes plus a carpool lane (so four lanes total), such as parts of the 91 Freeway in Riverside, and the lane closest to the right is closed, does …

By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says he’s ready to make the case to Congress this week that things are getting a …

By REBECCA BOONE Attorneys for the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque say he is being denied basic medical care for diabetes and has lost 30 pounds in the two months since he was detained by immigration officers. Salah Sarsour, a …

By MALAK HARB and BASSEM MROUE SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Christian religious leaders from Lebanon’s southern port city of Tyre called on the international community and Lebanese officials on Tuesday to act quickly to prevent Israel from attacking the Christian …