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Everyone on New Orleans river boat survives crash with tanker

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tanker in New Orleans that apparently lost its steering slammed into a docked river cruise boat with 180 people aboard Friday, the mayor said. All aboard survived after the crash prompted a massive rescue operation for passengers and crew who plunged into the Mississippi ...

Supreme Court will consider order suspending asylum access at southern border

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Donald Trump's ban on asylum at the southern border, a pillar of the Republican president's far-reaching crackdown on immigration. The Trump administration is asking the justices to overturn lower court decisions that ...

Hunt for clues in deadly Brooklyn building collapse will take time

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators began what could be a long search for the cause of a Brooklyn apartment building collapse that killed eight people as the fire department ended rescue operations Thursday after the last victim was freed from the wreckage. The three-story building gave way while ...

Mississippi elects state’s first Black US senator since Reconstruction

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War ...