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PARIS (AP) — Hot dogs, bacon, cold cuts and other processed meats raise the risk of colon, stomach and other cancers, and red meat probably contribute...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The operator of a closed radioactive waste dump that caught fire in southern Nevada had trouble over the years with leaky shipments a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a truly outrageous weekend at the box office, and not in a good way. The pack of new releases proved to be all out duds, som...

HOUSTON (AP) — After a drawn-out showdown between Houston's popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation's four...

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese investment holding company said it has signed a letter of intent to purchase oil fields in Texas for 8.3 billion yuan ($1.3 b...

WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen's effort to fix its emissions scandal will be largely led by company insiders. Some experts say it's the only way...

BONN, Germany (AP) — The trillion-dollar question of who should pay for global warming is coming to a head in talks on an international climate pact, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe you shouldn't have put your money under a mattress after all. The stock market is back in the black for the year after a bruisin...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A Kentucky accountant who spent much of six years as a fugitive hiking the Appalachian Trail pleaded guilty Friday to a wire fraud c...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal authorities have confiscated shipments of a lethal-injection chemical that Arizona and Texas tried to bring in from abroa...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A private Japanese organization that has found the remains of World War II soldiers on Saipan is planning another excavation on th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums are expected to rise in many parts of the country as a new sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law st...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Investigators are blaming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold...

SEATTLE (AP) — Free rent and groceries were selling points, but college freshman Aishwarya Mandyam was more excited about the chance to connect with l...

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelv...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — French President Francois Hollande arrived in Athens for a two-day visit Thursday, as Greece seeks help from European rescue len...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Work on Barcelona's breathtaking La Sagrada Familia Basilica, designed by visionary architect Antoni Gaudi, has entered its fi...

LONDON (AP) — Britain will be China's "partner of choice" in the West, Prime Minister David Cameron declared Wednesday, as China demonstrated its comm...

LONDON (AP) — The latest news on the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Britain. All times local. 5:15 p.m. Police have dragg...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In time for "Back to the Future" day, the widow of the automaker whose famous car traveled through time in the 1985 movie and its ...