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LONDON (AP) — Bill Clinton tried. So did George W. Bush. Neither succeeded. As President Barack Obama’s own second term winds down, he is getting clos...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Four people died during a storm that dumped more than 4 feet of snow around Buffalo and forced 150 motorists, including a women’s...

NEW YORK (AP) — The cold is back, and with it, rising heating bills. This winter was expected to bring much lower bills than last year because it wasn...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Travelers heading through southeast Alabama to Florida Panhandle beaches could have a smoother route by the spring unless resi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has the power to hold drone operators accountable when they operate the remote-control aircraft recklessly, a federal...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s brash, say-it-like-it-is persona has made him a political celebrity. But as he relinquishes hi...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone received aggressive treatment at a Nebraska hospital over the weekend but...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that affirmative action polic...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday and activated the National Guard ahead of a grand jury decisio...

FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday there are encouraging signs of progress against the Ebola virus in West Afric...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Scientists have isolated a virus they are pretty sure is causing the mysterious disease that has killed millions of sea stars...

CHICAGO (AP) — A major study lifts a cloud around Zetia and Vytorin, blockbuster drugs for lowering cholesterol. The study found that these pills mode...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fabian Barrera found a way to make fast cash in the Texas National Guard, earning roughly $181,000 for claiming to have steered 119 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The collapse of a 210-year-old building in the heart of the French Quarter is raising warning flags about decay and a lack of rigor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby will not dignify “decade-old, discredited” claims of sexual abuse with a response, his attorney said Sunday, the first c...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that Democrats lacked a “national advertising campaign” in the recent midterm ele...

CHICAGO (AP) — Millions of people with stents that prop open clogged heart arteries may need anti-clotting drugs much longer than the one year doctors...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant, suggests a small study that points to changes in the br...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a crucial second sign-up season gears up, the Obama administration said Sunday that HealthCare.gov is stable and working well, a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair po...