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A potential disaster was averted Friday when a Phoenix air traffic controller recognized two American Airlines jets mistakenly were flying the same flight number and acted quickly to avoid confusion and keep them ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine mont...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In the hills above Kabul, Sima searches for things that others have left behind. She walks through cemeteries looking for plastic, scrap and anything else that might have value. What can be sold is gathered and carried away; some of what cannot is brought home and saved as fuel for cooking or winter.

Five years after the Taliban returned to po...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The SEMO Fair Pageant is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, at the R & R Tent at the SEMO Fairgrounds in Cape Girardeau.

The pageant will have six divisions: Tiny Miss SEMO Fair for ages 18 months through 3; Little Miss for ages 4-6; Young Miss for ages 7-9; Pre-Teen Miss for ages 10-13; Teen Miss for ages 14-16; and Miss SEMO Fair for age...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with an increasingly bellicose Iran as talks to end the war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or