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The Declaration of Independence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

By STEVEN SLOAN and STEVE PEOPLES WASHINGTON (AP) — Festivities commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence ramped up across the United States on Friday as demonstrations of national pride — and hints of political polarization — were balanced with efforts to stay safe as much of the country baked under extreme heat. President Donald […]

Andy Griffith, who made homespun American Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show,” died at his North Carolina home. He was 86.

Prosecutors say a skyscraper-scaling daredevil told police that he and his girlfriend climbed the Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurled a banner about love and peace because he wanted to “do something special” for their engagement.

A former Olympian was indicted Thursday on a felony charge in what President Donald Trump has called vandalism of the Reflecting Pool.

President James A. Garfield was shot by office seeker Charles J. Guiteau (gee-TOH’) at the Washington, D.C., railroad station; Garfield died the following September.

Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.

Egg producers Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman’s agree to a $3.3 million settlement to resolve allegations of price collusion with 17 states.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says the state could seek billions after DEA agents allowed fentanyl shipments into communities.

Labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Sedition Act of 1917 for a speech in which he denounced U.S. involvement in World War I.