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Defense attorneys filed 95 letters in court Wednesday night as part of a bid to get Abramoff out of prison early.  They describe him as a humbled, changed man whose family is suffering.

Just three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans confronts a new threat from Gustav and a stark question: Will the partially rebuilt levees hold?

Fire officials say a scaffold has collapsed over a walkway at a downtown San Diego construction site, injuring 16 pedestrians.

A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees has been acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.

Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.

Barack Obama will blame America’s economic and foreign policy problems on “a broken politics in Washington and the failed presidency of George W. Bush” when he accepts the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night.

Many veterans of the March on Washington will gather at televisions Thursday night and watch an event they would have considered impossible not just in 1963, but perhaps in 1983, or 1993.

A column of people three blocks long, led by members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, streamed from the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday in an anti-war protest march to the Pepsi Center.

Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.