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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian, actor, writer, musician, and now we can add art curator to that long list of titles placed alongside Steve Martin's name....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service agent credited with saving President Ronald Reagan's life on the day he was shot outside a Washington hotel has d...

HIGHGATE, Vt. (AP) — American actor Randy Quaid was taken into custody Friday night while trying to cross into the United States from Canada, Vermont ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is moving to further limit how much companies can charge for phone calls made from jails...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker John Boehner wants out. He really does. But the Ohio House Republican is staying put, for now — and that could improve the c...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at Northern Arizona University (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Northern Arizona University students wi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One survivor of last month's crush and stampede at the hajj in Saudi Arabia recalled seeing so many bodies that he ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An overnight confrontation between two groups of students escalated into gunfire Friday when a freshman at Northern Arizona Un...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis directed the attention of the world's bishops to real-world crises Friday by denouncing the escalation of conflicts i...

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. is abandoning its goal of having America's military train a new force of moderate Syrian rebels, turning its focus to equipping...

CHICAGO (AP) — Captured in a documentary that brought national attention to Chicago's violence, Operation CeaseFire deployed former gang members and f...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Belarus' crippled political opposition has been cautious in its criticisms ahead of Sunday's presidential election. Not so the c...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Twentieth Century Fox officials said they have found no evidence actors took American Indian artifacts while filming "Maze Ru...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday approved a $338 million settlement fund for victims of the fiery 2013 oil train derailment th...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three young drifters suspected in the shooting death of a tantra yoga teacher in Marin County are now accused of killing a Canadi...

HURLEY, N.Y. (AP) — Call them "The Buzzing Dead." Honeybees are being threatened by tiny flies that lead them to lurch and stagger around like zombies...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on the stabbing of a U.S. airman who helped stop a gunman on a French passenger train (all times local): 10:47 a....

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — SeaWorld wants to greatly expand the tanks it uses to hold killer whales in San Diego, but animal rights activists fear the ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Alpha Tau Omega says it has revoked the charter and closed its Indiana University chapter following the release of a video pu...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Latest news from the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature. ___ 7:15 p.m. A Russian literature scholar says it will be interestin...