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A year after Jan. 6, Congress more deeply divided than ever 01/06/2022 10:30am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Congress is showing the world a very unsettled view from the U.S. Capitol: Rather than a national crisis that pulls the country together, the deadly riot on Jan. 6, 2021, only seems to have pushed lawmakers further apart. Some members are planning to mark the a Capitol riot: Lessons learned are unclear 01/06/2022 05:50am • Even after a year and the arrests of hundreds, thousands of pages of documents gathered and subpoenas being issued, there is still no clear understanding of how the Jan. 6 riot was organized. As a result, a former Department of Homeland Security official believes it too early to know how much was How a Kennedy built an anti-vaccine juggernaut amid COVID-19 12/15/2021 11:03am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strode onto the stage at a Southern California church, radiating Kennedy confidence and surveying the standing ovation crowd with his piercing blue Bobby Kennedy eyes. Then, he launched into an anti-vaccine rant. Democrats “drank the Kool-Aid,” he Avalanche delays holiday tradition in Alaska's largest city 11/30/2021 06:55pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A holiday tradition in Alaska’s largest city for more than 60 years got off to a dim start this year. A 300-foot (91-meter) wide, brightly illuminated star situated high above Anchorage in the Chugach Mountains is traditionally lit the day after Thanksgiving. However, wh Former Montgomery County police chief who was public face of Beltway Sniper investigation dies at 68 11/26/2021 04:34pm • Former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who became the public face of the investigation into the Beltway Sniper rampage that terrorized the D.C. region, has died. Moose, who left his post in 2003, was 68, according to a statement from the department. Moose's wife posted a message Survey in Britain finds lack of awareness about Holocaust 11/10/2021 10:17am • JERUSALEM (AP) — A survey released Wednesday found what organizers say is a lack of awareness in Britain about the Holocaust and a major episode in the country's rescue of Jews ahead of World War II. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a New York-based group that negotiates r Survey: 52% of U.K. Residents Don't Know Toll of Holocaust 11/10/2021 12:00am • For years, advocates and scholars have contended that continual education and remembrance of past large-scale killings are the best approaches to avoiding them in the future. Yet despite efforts to educate populations about global atrocities that have occurred before and since the Holocaust -- the UN says over 3 million in Myanmar need 'life-saving' aid 11/09/2021 01:18am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief urged Myanmar’s military leaders on Monday to provide unimpeded access to the more than 3 million people in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance since government forces seized power on Feb. 1 “because of growing conflict and insecurity, FBI releases declassified documents on Sept. 11 attacks 11/03/2021 08:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents Wednesday about its long effort to explore connections between the Saudi government and the Sept. 11 attacks, revealing the scope of a strenuous but ultimately fruitless investigation whose outcome many question t Orthodox patriarch blesses shrine near 9/11 memorial 11/02/2021 03:46pm • The spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians gave his formal blessing Tuesday to an ornate shrine that will replace a small parish church destroyed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, nearing the compl Are Arab Americans people of color? Mayor vote raises issue 10/31/2021 11:42am • BOSTON (AP) — Are Arab Americans people of color? The question has been bubbling beneath the surface of Boston's historic mayor's race, where one of the two candidates, Annissa Essaibi George, has found herself challenged on the campaign trail about her decision to identify as one. On Tuesday, Ess Justices seem set to revive marathon bomber's death sentence 10/13/2021 03:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sounded ready Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court's six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden administration's argument that a federal After 3 misses, Crosby kicks OT winner; Packers top Bengals 10/11/2021 12:48am • CINCINNATI (AP) — Mason Crosby hit a 49-yard field goal in overtime after missing three straight attempts, lifting the Green Bay Packers to a wild 25-22 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. The typically reliable Crosby missed potential winners with 2:12 and then 3 seconds left in regulation Marathon bomber faces revived death sentence in high court 10/09/2021 12:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on at an earlier phase of the c Muslims recall questionable detentions that followed 9/11 10/04/2021 06:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Around New York City in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, as an eerie quiet settled over ground zero, South Asian and Arab men started vanishing. Soon, more than 1,000 were arrested in sweeps across the metropolitan area and nationwide. Most were charged only with overstaying