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Springfield is celebrating a man whose civil rights case changed the course of American history. Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Oliver Brown — the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ...

Of all the horrific details contained in the Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, one sentence stands out: “The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid ‘scandal.'” When sex-abuse cases dominate ...

Is the latest pickup in U.S. economic growth destined to slow in the years ahead as most analysts say? Or, as the Trump administration insists, is the economy on the cusp of an explosive boom that will reward Americans and ...

The reigning Miss America says she has been bullied, manipulated and silenced by the pageant’s current leadership, including Gretchen Carlson. In a letter sent Friday to former Miss Americas, Cara Mund says she decided to speak out despite the risk ...

What do you do when your CEO confesses that he’s cracking under the stress of his job? That’s the question that the nine board members of electric-car and solar-panel maker Tesla Inc. must answer after Elon Musk, the company’s impulsive ...

Lauren Woehr wonders if her 16-month-old daughter has been harmed by tap water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds used in products such as nonstick cookware, carpets, firefighting foam and fast-food wrappers. Henry Betz, at 76, rattles around his house alone ...

Patrick Murphy was convicted of killing a fellow Muscogee (Creek) Nation man in 1999 and was sentenced to die. Oklahoma prosecutors say he mutilated George Jacobs and left him to bleed to death on the side of a country road ...

Attorneys for a group of victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting have harshly criticized MGM Resorts International regarding its legal maneuver seeking to consolidate multiple lawsuits stemming from the massacre. The victims’ attorneys in court documents filed Tuesday say ...

A day after Twitter gave right-wing conspiratorialist Alex Jones a weeklong timeout, CEO Jack Dorsey is mulling deeper changes to the social media service that might limit the spread of fake news, misinformation and hate speech. Twitter joined other prominent ...

The government has made only incremental improvements to its troubled efforts to care for thousands of migrant children detained entering the U.S. without their parents, perpetuating a problem the Trump administration has aggravated with its “zero tolerance” immigration crackdown, a ...

A Georgia woman who mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization faces the “longest sentence” ever behind bars for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media, prosecutors said in a court filing. Former National Security Agency ...