By ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer EUTAW SPRINGS, S.C. (AP) — Standing beneath the spreading branches of a massive live oak, historian Garrison Marcoux tries to imagine what this scarred, struggling tree saw 245 years ago. Did one of the British soldiers encamped at this South ...

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Lindsay Clancy did not have acute psychosis when she killed her three children but rather took their lives so they wouldn't "suffer" after she took her own life, a forensic psychologist testified Monday in her murder trial. Kirk Heilbrun said he ruled out ...

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer CHICAGO (AP) — After trade negotiations crumbled at the eleventh hour, U.S. President Donald Trump's 50% tariffs on scores of Canadian imports kicked in over the weekend. The new levies, which went into effect Saturday, are set to impact ...

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The world's oceans simmered to their hottest temperatures on record over the weekend and are likely to warm even further in the next few months, putting stress on life in the water and on land too, the European climate service Copernicus announced ...

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a pause of more than two months, the U.S. military announced Monday that it once again carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people accused of trafficking drugs. It brings ...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH AP Education Writer Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn't have a college degree. But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quick solution. So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number ...