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  • FILE — Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, who claims to have fatally shot Osama Bin Laden, talks about joining the service at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Wednesday, July 26, 2017. O’Neill has a small ownership stake in Armed Forces Brewing Company and has served as its brand ambassador. His recent social media complaint about a Navy sailor who performs as a drag queen and a police report alleging he used a racial slur are fueling efforts to stop the brewery from opening in military friendly Norfolk, Va. (Matt Masin/The Orange County Register via AP)Politics

    Inverse version of Bud Light culture war hits Navy town mulling military-themed brewery: ‘No one is running around the brewing facility with AR-15s’

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • UNLV mass shootingPolitics

    Police have no motive after college professor who was denied various jobs murders several faculty at UNLV

    By Rio Yamat, Ben Finley, and others
  • A replicated model of the RMS Titanic liner is displayed on the opening day of the XXL Titanic exhibition at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris on July 18, 2023, revealing authentic relics and objects recovered after the sinking, as well as life-size replicas of several areas of the liner. On April 15, 1912, the Titanic, a British liner reputed to be unsikable, sank off Newfoundland near Canada, after hitting an iceberg, the tragedy claiming the lives of around 1500 passengers. (Photo by Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Controversial planned trip to recover Titanic artifacts is cancelled after the expedition’s leader died in a submersible accident near the shipwreck

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • RMS Titanic passenger liner of the White Star Line. From The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures, published 1935. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    U.S. is fighting a planned Titanic expedition to collect historic artifacts because the shipwreck is a hallowed grave site

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • ARCHIVO – El tackle ofensivo de los Ravens de Baltimore Michael Oher sentado en el banco durante un juego de la NFL ante los Bills de Buffalo. Domingo 24 de octubre de 2010. (AP Foto/Nick Wass, Archivo)Personal Finance

    ‘Blind Side’ family’s conservatorship of Michael Oher full of ‘shocking and maybe never before seen things’, says legal expert

    By Adrian Sainz, Jonathan Mattise, and others
  • Deja Nicole Taylor, right, arrives with attorney James Ellenson, to the Newport News Sheriffs Office in Newport News, Virginia, on April 13, 2023, to turn herself in. Taylor is the mother of the 6-year-old first grader who shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 6. (Billy Schuerman/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Politics

    Mother of 6-year-old who shot his teacher pleads guilty to felony child neglect, and avoids charge of recklessly storing a firearm in her purse

    By Ben Finley, Denise Lavoie, and others
  • The Pfizer plant is damaged after severe weather passed the area on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 in Rocky Mount, N.C. (WTVD via AP)Health

    Pfizer plant in North Carolina heavily damaged by tornado ‘will likely lead to long-term shortages’ of drugs

    By Ben Finley, Hannah Schoenbaum, and others
  • Titan subEnvironment

    Discovery Channel camera operator who rode on the missing Titan sub 2 years ago sensed trouble: ‘I 100% knew this was going to happen’

    By Ben Finley, Holly Ramer, and others
  • Hamish Harding

    UK billionaire on lost submersible vessel holds 3 Guinness World Records and was ‘looking forward to conducting research’ at Titanic site

    By Ben Finley, Holly Ramer, and others
  • (Billy Schuerman/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Leadership

    Teacher who sued her school district for $40 million over 6-year-old shooting her has resigned

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Pat RobertsonSuccess

    Pat Robertson, central figure in the fusion of Christianity, the Republican Party and television, dies at 93

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Gary RossingtonSuccess

    The death of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gary Rossington draws the curtain closed on a Southern Rock opera

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press
  • Travelers at Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Planes and airports are expected to be bustling this Thanksgiving, traditionally one of the most traveled holidays of the year. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSuccess

    The JFK Airport power outage is stretching into Day 2 stranding passengers and forcing a New Zealand flight to turn around

    By Karen Matthews, Ben Finley, and others
  • Police respond to a shooting that injured a teacher at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Virginia, on Jan. 6, 2023. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Health

    School where 6-year-old shot his teacher reopens with police stationed outside and nervous kids inside: ‘There are concerns, of course’

    By Ben Finley, Denise Lavoie, and others
  • Community members, including Walmart employees, gather for a candlelight vigil at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, for the six people killed at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., when a manager opened fire with a handgun before an employee meeting last week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Retail

    Survivor of Walmart mass shooting files $50 million lawsuit against retailer for employing supervisor with ‘known propensities for violence’

    By Ben Finley and The Associated Press