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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans ignored a White House promise of a veto Wednesday and pushed toward Senate passage of legislation demolishing President ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on a shooting at a social services facility in San Bernardino, California (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Police...

The Web is addictive, as are the machines that allow us access it. The Internet is the world’s largest slot machine, says Dr. David Greenfield, who ha...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is beginning a new era in nutritional warnings this week: Chain restaurants will have to start putting a special symbol ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Would you like to spend quality time with George Clooney as he showers you with compliments? How about walk a red carpet with Meryl St...

As the baby boomer generation ages, the number of Americans age 65 and older is increasing dramatically. According to U.S. Census figures, the nation’...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Sunday that American leadership was helping make gains in the global fight against climate change as he ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behin...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — While the global push to eradicate HIV may have saved over a million babies, AIDS is now the leading cause of death for African te...

SEATTLE (AP) — The strain of E. coli linked to Costco chicken salad that sickened 19 people in seven states is more likely to be life-threatening than...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — First it was musk ox stew. Then the Alaska nursing home served up musk ox meatloaf to its elderly Inupiat residents and their...

Grant Hasse was born with two very rare conditions — one that's usually fatal, the other that should have left him unable to talk. But at almost 4 yea...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (AP) — In a Nordic-inspired building tucked in a corner of the Bayer CropScience North American headquarters, high school...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A newly approved drug is being hailed as a major advance in treatment of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease th...

NEW YORK (AP) — An outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle that originated in the Pacific Northwest has spread south and east and has now infected peop...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has created health guidelines for cryotherapy after a Las Vegas spa worker was found dead in a tank that subjects users to sub...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radioactive well-water contamination could threaten some 1,400 people in a rural farming community if federal regulators allow the na...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Health officials in Liberia said Friday they had confirmed a new case of the deadly Ebola disease, more than two months after...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe an amiable gecko could help the Obama administration sell its health insurance overhaul. In the long-running auto insurance co...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Sheen issued the following statement Tuesday. What follows is the complete, unedited letter: Roughly four years ago, I suddenl...