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FULTONDALE, Ala. (AP) — Officials say a tornado killed a teenager who was huddling with his family in the basement of their Alabama home Monday night. The storm blew down a tree that collapsed the structure. Fultondale Police Chief D.P. Smith says several other family members were critically injured. The tornado left a swath of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House impeachment case against Donald Trump has been delivered to the Senate for his upcoming trial. House Democratic prosecutors made the ceremonial walk across the Capitol late Monday to deliver the charge of incitement of insurrection, but Republican senators are easing off their criticism of the former president. It's an early…

Coronavirus deaths and cases in the U.S. have dropped markedly over the past couple of weeks but are still running at alarmingly high levels. And the effort to snuff out COVID-19 is becoming an ever more urgent race between the vaccine and the mutating virus. Deaths are running at an average of just under 3,100…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set Monday to bring the impeachment article against Donald Trump for the Senate trial. But a growing number of Republican senators say they oppose the proceedings against the former president. That's a sign of the dimming chances that Trump will be convicted on the charge that he incited a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears. That’s according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday. Part of the concern is ominous chatter about killing…