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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The men strip off their clothes, wrap themselves in rags and plug their nostrils with tobacco to hide the stench. They squeeze into a cramped outhouse with a reeking pit to scoop buckets of human excrement with…

The turbulent U.S. election, featuring Donald Trump's unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelming pick for the top news story of 2016, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — They stood under fragile walls that would soon collapse.

Photos from the Pearl Harbor Day memorial dedication ceremonies at the University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.

PICKWICK, Minn. — Ditching his red suit for a firefighter’s uniform, Santa Claus made the trek from the North Pole to Pickwick on Saturday for the Pickwick Fire and Rescue Breakfast with Santa.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (TNS) — Paleontologists call it “The Barnyard,” a remote box canyon in an inhospitable desert where slabs of mud stone as big as billboards are indented with fossil tracks left by mastodons, camels, horses and…

WASHINGTON (TNS) — All hogs in Massachusetts will be able to stretch their legs and turn around in their crates and all hens will be able to spread their wings under a law passed in November by voters in the…

DALLAS (TNS) —Babak Taherzadeh is a troll.

The battleship was emblematic of the United States' emerging global naval power in the 20th century.

COLUMBUS, Kan. (TNS) — In February 2015, three years into the supply-side economics experiment that would upend a once steady Midwestern economy, a hole appeared in Kansas’ finances.