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After the defending Premier League champion lost nine of 16 games, the English soccer club finally cut ties with its embattled coach.

Hardly anyone roasts American chestnuts over an open fire anymore: A blight all but wiped out the trees they grow on. Now the discovery of a soaring survivor could aid efforts to breed a hardier tree.

Composer, conductor and teacher Alice Parker turned 90 on Wednesday. She made her name as the primary arranger for the Robert Shaw Chorale for some 20 years. She continues to compose and teach, and she's a much beloved figure in the choral music world — so much so that choral groups all over the world posted performances to YouTube on Wednesday.

A new study finds a pattern of guards abusing inmates at remote High Desert State Prison. That includes a "culture of racism" and mistreating inmates with disabilities.

Enrique Marquez, a friend of San Bernardino, Calif., shooter Syed Farook, was charged Thursday with conspiring to provide support for terrorism. He also purchased two of the rifles used in the attack.

For a generation of young Spaniards, temporary employment has become the new normal. As voters head to the polls on Sunday, many are wondering if that should really count as recovery.

Ellie Day, the wife of PGA golfer Jason Day, was taken away by stretcher from her courtside seat on Thursday night after the Cleveland Cavaliers forward crashed into her while chasing a ball.

The White House says it is shortening the sentences for 95 men and women in federal prisons for nonviolent crimes. Obama has now commuted more sentences than the previous five presidents combined.

Months of training culminated with reaching the summit of a 16,500-foot peak, which they named. But there were frustrations and squabbles along the away, and uncertainties as they returned to Kabul.

"Evangelical" is one of the most poorly defined terms in the U.S. political conversation.