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President Trump played a video which sounded like a campaign ad, and drew a battle line between the federal government and states over the authority to reopen the U.S. economy.

Mexico's new president formed a truth commission to investigate the abduction and presumed death of 43 college students in 2014 but some wonder if there will be similar focus on other cases.

Marisa Silver's new novel imagines the meeting of a Depression-era photographer and her now-iconic subject. Giving the characters different names but similar stories to their real-life counterparts, Silver tackles big questions about the morality of art.

Solomon Northup, an African-American musician from New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. He was eventually freed and wrote about his experience in Twelve Years a Slave, a memoir that has inspired a new film adaptation. But by the end of the Civil War, he dropped off the public record.

The USDA has quietly ended a ban on processed chicken imports from China. The products won't require a country-of-origin label — which means there's no way to know whether those chicken nuggets in the freezer aisle came from a country with a spotty food safety reputation.

Civil rights leaders meeting in Atlanta say states, including Texas and North Carolina, are deliberately trying to make it more difficult for voters. They're calling for a national campaign to strengthen voting rights, increase voter participation and eliminate long lines at the polls.

The resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid sexual harassment accusations has brought dramatic change to the state's leadership. And New Yorkers have plenty of thoughts on what that means.

Thanksgiving weekend spending shot up nearly 13 percent from last year, and there's more time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year for people to shop. And if a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff comes just before Christmas, as some expect, it could brighten the economic mood of last-minute shoppers.

Federal regulators want to cap the cost of phone calls from prison, which are far more expensive than ordinary calls. Commissions paid to local and state officials drive up costs, a phone firm says.

Seattle students were supposed to start school Wednesday, but teachers voted to strike in a dispute over pay raises. More than 50,000 public school students and about 5,000 teachers aren't in class.