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ORANGEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A 6-foot-4-inch cow owned by an Illinois woman was recently dubbed the world’s tallest. Patty Hanson and Blosom the cow smile...

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man is facing charges after police said he grabbed a mop out of a hotel employee’s hands and was “mopping aggressi...

DENVER (AP) — An American aid doctor who was held captive by the Taliban for four days in Afghanistan in 2012 said he found a surprising kinship with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ high hopes of mitigating House losses in a rough election year have been dashed by reality. The question now is not wheth...

NEW YORK (AP) — For more than two months, health officials have been struggling to understand the size of a national wave of severe respiratory illnes...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The nation’s top-disease fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that an American nurse might not have been infected with Ebola ...

FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has stopped running TV ads in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race, a severe blow to Alison L...

WASHINGTON (AP) — HealthCare.gov , the website for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law, has been revamped as its second en...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama does not plan to announce his choice for attorney general before the November elections, shielding the nomina...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice to be the next attorney general isn’t the only major decision that will have to wait until after Nov...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh test for U.S. coalition-building efforts, Turkey is launching airstrikes against Kurdish rebels inside its borders this w...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Pennsylvania drilling sites are emerging as destinations for political pilgrimage for candidates for governor in New York as polit...

ATLANTA (AP) — A severe storm system roughed up much of the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to tens of thousands as it snarled morn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say Pfizer has provided low-quality evidence to support its request to remove a bold-letter warning from its anti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama huddled with some of his senior national security aides and with top administration health officials Monday f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is telling the nation’s hospitals to “think Ebola.” Every hospital must know how to diagnose Ebola in people who have...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Having health insurance is no panacea for high medical costs. Overall, 1 in 4 privately insured U.S. adults say they don’t have much...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three fault segments running beneath Northern California and its roughly 15 million people are overdue for a major earthquake, in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An animal rescue group says a dog that required more than 1,000 stitches after being stabbed and beaten is recovering in Los Angele...

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — It’s been more than four decades since Jimmy Carter campaigned across Georgia and asked voters to make him governor. His winning ra...