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Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore announces his plan to run for U.S. Senate during a Wednesday news conference on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery.

Suspended Alabama chief justice running for Senate to ‘make America good again’

August 21, 2019 at 11:07 p.m.

Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was ousted from his position last year after leading a judicial revolt against same-sex marriage, announced plans Wednesday to run for U.S. Senate....

Mauricio Vidaurri worries about losing access to the nearly 200-year-old family cemetery on his property south of Laredo, Texas.

Trump promised a border wall. Now these Texans worry they will lose their land

August 21, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

For 21/2 centuries, Cecilia Benavides' family has owned land tangled with honey mesquite trees and towering clumps of cactus on a sweeping bend of the Rio Grande. Generations of family...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent searches a person suspected of crossing the Rio Grande to enter the United States illegally near Rio Grande City, Texas, on March 1.

Number of immigrants caught at Mexican border drops 40% in Feb., when it normally increases

August 21, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

The number of immigrants caught by Border Patrol agents as they attempt to cross the Southwest border has plunged dramatically, dropping 40% since President Trump took office and signed sweeping...

Prisoners stand at the western fence as law enforcement officials converge on the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, in response to a prisoner uprising in 2015.

Private prison companies likely to be big beneficiaries of Trump’s plan to detain more border-crossers

August 21, 2019 at 10:10 p.m.

When John Chavez peers through chain link and razor wire into the vast tent city that once housed one of the nation's most notorious prisons for immigrants, he does not...

Felicia Sanders watched her son, Tywanza Sanders, die at the hands of Dylann Roof.

South Carolina church massacre survivor: witness to horror — and justice

August 21, 2019 at 9:44 p.m.

She was there the night Dylann Roof gunned down her son and eight other parishioners who welcomed him to their church. She was there when Roof's trial opened — the...

Smoke fills the air in downtown Gatlinburg, Tenn.

Rain finally comes to fire-ravaged Tennessee — along with tornadoes, mudslides and the threat of floods

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

At long last, rain fell on the scorched Appalachian town of Gatlinburg, Tenn., on Wednesday after savage wildfires blazed across eastern Tennessee, killing seven people, forcing thousands to evacuate and...

Shawn Lewis, left, and his boss, Tommy Morrison at Pete's Grill in Stanley, N.C.

Clinton and Trump supporters come from different Americas. Between them lies bitterness and distrust

August 21, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

At a posh Miami cafe the day after the election, a man worriedly monitored the stock market. His friend questioned whether the election had been rigged. At a nearby coffee...

Michael Murphy yells out during a rally against police brutality on July 11, 2016, in downtown Chicago. Black Lives Matter Chicago, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Trinity United Church of Christ were among the organizations participating in the rally.

Gap between old and new civil rights activists is widening: ‘Some unlovable little brats out there’

August 21, 2019 at 7:26 p.m.

As waves of protesters gathered in Atlanta night after night to condemn the fatal police shootings of African American men, civil rights veteran Andrew Young stepped in to provide some...

Richie Compton, left, and Erik Winger kneel at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting outside of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, 2016.

Orlando gunman used gay dating app, visited LGBT nightclub on other occasions, witnesses say

August 21, 2019 at 6:45 p.m.

The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub had attended the club before the attack and had used a gay dating and chat app, witnesses said. Kevin West, a regular...

In 1957, Josephine Boyd became the first African American student to attend Greensboro Senior High School in North Carolina, three years after the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education.

After six decades, Mississippi town finally ordered to desegregate its schools

August 21, 2019 at 6:21 p.m.

More than six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" has no place in the nation's public school system, a federal court has ordered a small...

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