For Springfield Fire Department Captain Paul Byers ringing the Salvation Army bell at Christmas is a family tradition.

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.

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WASHINGTON - America's last prolonged look at Chief Justice John Roberts came 14 years ago, when he told senators during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing that judges should be like baseball umpires, impartially calling balls and strikes.

Harvey Weinstein, scheduled to go on trial in New York next month on sex-crime charges, also is under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations in at least eight cases under review in Los Angeles.

The MVP is playing. So are the reigning champions, north of the border. And out in LA, the NBA's newest dynamic duos will square off as well.

A new batch of Boeing internal documents related to the 737 Max jetliner paint "a very disturbing picture" regarding employees' concerns about safety, a House committee reported Tuesday.

NEW YORK - Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is resigning from the board of directors, severing ties to the ride-hailing company that he co-founded a decade ago and ran until a series of scandals led to his downfall.

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