WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, with the goal of formally ending one of the last gender- or... READ MORE »

SCRANTON (AP) — Flags were flying at half-staff in a northeastern Pennsylvania city where authorities planned to file additional charges against three teens charged in a robbery that led to... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Macy's is closing its downtown Pittsburgh location after selling the landmark building where the now-defunct Kaufmann's chain ran its flagship store for more than a... READ MORE »

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico mounted an all-out manhunt Sunday for its most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who authorities said escaped from a maximum security prison through a... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) — Deepak Jayasimha's fitness tracker is now with his father-in-law in India, where it sits unused. Annabel Kelly foisted hers off on the kids. Virginia Atkinson took hers off... READ MORE »

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Pluto, reveal thyself, and Earthlings, enjoy the show. On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored... READ MORE »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California uses a controversial method to recover contraband from inmates believed to have swallowed it or concealed it in body cavities: "potty watches" where... READ MORE »

STREATOR, Ill. (AP) — The NASA spacecraft set to complete a flyby of Pluto on Tuesday is carrying some of the ashes of the Illinois astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet. Clyde... READ MORE »

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita city officials have been working to get local businesses to consider using treated sewer water that the city would typically dump into the Arkansas River. Alan... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman charged in the Charleston, South Carolina, church massacre should not have been allowed to purchase the weapon used in the attack, FBI Director James Comey said... READ MORE »