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North Carolina officials say the death toll associated with Hurricane Matthew has risen to 18. Gov. Pat McCrory told a briefing Tuesday afternoon that two people drowned in Robeson County.

A coroner says a 6-year-old boy has died days after he was critically wounded in a school shooting in South Carolina.

Overwhelmingly rejecting President Barack Obama's veto power, Congress has forced into law contentious legislation that would allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

A proposed federal bill of rights for survivors of sexual assault won final legislative approval Wednesday, sending it to the president's desk.

Gasoline should begin flowing again Wednesday through a temporary bypass on a critical pipeline after a major leak in Alabama forced a shutdown that led to surging fuel prices and scattered gas shortages across the South, a company official said Tuesday.

Colonial Pipeline says it is beginning construction of a temporary pipeline that will bypass a leaking section of its main gasoline pipeline in Shelby County, Alabama.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Saturday that his party must do a better job appealing to African-American voters and that he wants the GOP to become their political home as it was in the era of Abraham Lincoln.

Authorities say a police officer in a small, central Georgia city has been shot and killed by a suspect who remains on the loose.

Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history who helped boost the women's game to the big time in a 38-year career at Tennessee, has died at 64

Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each targeted GOP front-runner Donald Trump during a Democratic fundraiser in Ohio Sunday night.