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Demonstrators stand on the capitol grounds ahead of a pro gun rally, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, in Richmond, Va.

Thousands rally in Virginia's capital for gun rights

01/20/2020 10:02 AM

Thousands of gun-rights activists - some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles - crowded the streets surrounding Virginia's Capitol building Monday to protest plans by the state's Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation ...

Police: 2 dead, 15 hurt in Kansas City, Missouri, shooting

In this image made from video, a police vehicle passes with sirens near the scene of a shooting, Jan. 20, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri. Police say at least two people are dead and upwards of a dozen people may have been injured in a shooting outside a bar.

2 officers dead, another injured in Hawaii shooting; suspect at large

Honolulu police officers gather near the scene of a shooting near Diamond Head State Monument on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Honolulu.

On the edge of America, census begins a tiny Alaska town

Children play in the snow Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, in Toksook Bay, Alaska. The first Americans to be counted in the 2020 Census starting Tuesday, Jan. 21, live in this Bering Sea coastal village. The Census traditionally begins earlier in Alaska than the rest of the nation because frozen ground allows easier access for Census workers, and rural Alaska will scatter with the spring thaw to traditional hunting and fishing grounds.

Cult ‘anointed by God’ kills 7 in Panama jungle

View of the improvised temple where a pregnant woman, five of her children and a neighbor were killed in a religious ritual in the jungle community of el El Terron, Panama, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers on Jan. 13 and tortured, beaten, burned and hacked with machetes to make them

Couple together for nearly 65 years die on the same day

In this November 2019 photo provided by Sue Wagener shows Jack and Harriet Morrison. The couple who had been together for nearly 65 years have died on the same day at a St. Louis area nursing home. The Morrison's beds were placed next to each other in their final hours, allowing them to hold hands, the�St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. 86 year-old Jack died first. Harriett, who was 83, died later on Jan. 11 2020.

The National Archives in Washington, D.C.

National Archives: 'We made a mistake' altering Trump photos

The independent agency is charged with preserving government and historical records and said it has always been committed to preserving its holdings “without alteration" ...

Boy arrested after shooting that killed 4 in small Utah town

US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness

In this Jan. 13, 2020, photo, travelers pass by a health checkpoint before entering immigration at the international airport in Beijing. The possibility that a new virus in central China could spread between humans cannot be ruled out, though the risk of transmission at the moment appears to be low, Chinese officials said Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.

Avalanche at Lake Tahoe resort kills 1 skier, injures 1

Snow drifts pile up at Alpine Meadows ski resort in Alpine Meadows, Calif. on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. An avalanche Friday at a Lake Tahoe ski resort killed one skier and seriously injured another a day after a storm dumped large amounts of snow throughout the picturesque area.

Rollback proposed for Michelle Obama school lunch guidelines

In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 file photo, a third-grader punches in her student identification to pay for a meal at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe, N.M.

Crews round up over 1,700 piglets after semi overturns in Iowa

Authorities in Iowa had to round up more than 1,700 young pigs who were in a semi-trailer that overturned Thursday on a freeway just north of Des Moines...

Ex-US Rep. Collins gets over 2 years in insider trading case

Former U.S. congressman Christopher Collins, one of President Donald Trump's first supporters, leaves court after being sentenced to two years and two months for helping his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market losses, Friday Jan. 17, 2020, in New York.

Technology could cut train crews from 2 to 1 but is it safe?

In this April 26, 2018, file photo a CSX Transportation locomotive pulls a train of tank cars across a bridge on the Hudson River along the edge of Bear Mountain State Park near Fort Montgomery, N.Y. This year�s scheduled completion of a $15 billion automatic railroad braking system will bolster the industry�s argument for eliminating one of the two crew members in most locomotives. But labor groups argue that single-person crews would make trains more accident prone.

Al Asad attack: 11 US service members have been transferred out of Iraq for medical care

This aerial photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. An Iraqi general said Sunday that security has been beefed up around the Ain al-Asad air base, a sprawling complex that hosts U.S. forces, following a series of attacks.

FBI arrests 3 alleged white supremacists ahead of gun rally

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Patrik Mathews. FBI agents on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, arrested the former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group and were believed to be heading to a pro-gun rally next week in Virginia’s capital. The three men are members of The Base and were arrested on federal charges in a criminal complaint unsealed in Maryland, according to a Justice Department news release.

In this undated photo provided by Suffolk County Police in Yaphank, N.Y., is a belt with the initials

Police in Long Island serial killer case reveal new evidence

37 charged in Puerto Rico to Wisconsin drug smuggling case

Meet Hulk, the puppy who was born bright green

Man charged in Hanukkah attack pleads not guilty

Thomas was arrested hours after five people were stabbed at an attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City ...

Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Ramapo, N.Y. Thomas is accused of stabbing multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in the Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City.

New Mets manager Carlos Beltrán out amid sign-stealing scandal

The Mets announced the decision Thursday in a news release, saying Beltrán and the team "agreed to mutually part ways." The move came two days after Boston cut ties with manager Alex Cora, who was Houston's bench coach in 2017 when Beltrán played for the Astros...

In this Nov. 4, 2019, file photo, new New York Mets manager, Carlos Beltran, center, poses for a picture with general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, left, and Mets COO Jeff Wilpon during a baseball news conference at Citi Field in New York.

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