Author: Associated Press

President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and the Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and said he believes the Taliban want a cease-fire.

People don't celebrate Thanksgiving in France, or Russia, or South Africa - but they do shop on Black Friday.

The National Park Service will provide consultants to help create eight local parks and other recreation and conservation areas in five states, including Alabama.

A series of government reports Wednesday cast a picture of a steadily growing U.S. economy, fueled by solid consumer spending and defying threats — at least for now — from a U.S.-China trade war and a global slowdown.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the majority-black city of Birmingham violated a state law protecting Confederate monuments when it put plywood panels in front of a towering obelisk in a downtown park.

Human remains discovered in a wooded area have been confirmed as belonging to Aniah Blanchard, the college student who went missing more than a month ago.

Four companies will submit competitive bids to work on a massive new prison construction plan, the governor's office announced Tuesday.

The House Judiciary Committee is set to take over the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump

An Alabama district attorney said Monday that authorities have "good reason" to believe human remains found in a wooded area belong to to Aniah Blanchard, the 19-year-old college student who disappeared more than a month ago.

A judge on Monday sentenced a former Alabama sheriff to 18 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to scamming a food bank and his own small-town church to obtain inexpensive jail food and boost his personal income.