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The U.S. Department of Transportation penalty against American Airlines comes after "numerous serious violations of the laws protecting airline passengers with disabilities" over a four-year period.

A new Public Religion Research Institute survey finds an increase in support for marriage equality among people from more conservative backgrounds. But it finds Americans split on transgender rights.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is being built on the National Mall, near the Washington Monument. It is set to open in late 2015.

Almost three in four Americans believe events like a warm winter and increased severe weather are linked to global warming.

Brooklyn verismo, courtesy of American composer William Bolcom: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook.

The share of the American public that identifies simply as Catholic, however, has risen slightly to 18 percent in 2012 from 14 percent in 1974.

Peter Theo Curtis was released by a militant group shortly after another group, the Islamic State, beheaded the American journalist James Foley.

Lots of Americans spend some time near the top of the income ladder — and many spend at least a few years in poverty.

Black Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer's. Yet black people studied appeared to have lower levels of a toxic substance associated with the disease, researchers say.

The Killingly, Conn., school district changed a mascot from the Redmen to the Red Hawks last year at the recommendation of local Native Americans. This year, new board members reversed that decision.