Thousands of people fled Wednesday as a fast-moving wildfire that has damaged or destroyed more than a dozen homes tore through the San Diego suburb of Carlsbad. The blaze is only one of multiple fires burning in Southern California as the region s

NEW YORK – New York's new Sept. 11 museum holds heart-wrenching artifacts, including mangled World Trade Center steel and personal mementos from the tragic day. President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend the National September 11 Memorial Museu

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Researchers think they have found the wreck of the iconic Civil War vessel the Planter — the Confederate ammunition ship commandeered by the slave Robert Smalls, who steamed it out of Charleston and surrendered it to the Union Navy

Flags and roses decorate graves in Section 60, where many members of the military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried, during Memorial Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, May 27, 2013. ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Desc