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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after a prostitution scandal rocked the Secret Service, a Republican congressman renewed allegations Thursday about possib...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at a Syrian terrorist cell killed just one or two key militants, according to A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A surprising hot spot of the potent global-warming gas methane hovers over part of the southwestern U.S., according to satellite dat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first study of a possible Ebola vaccine is underway in Africa: University of Maryland researchers say three health care workers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has acquired a rare Civil War-era photograph of an enslaved woman who helped save Confederate Gen. Robert ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A letter by Charles Darwin on the sex life of barnacles and a still-working vintage Apple computer — one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Air tankers were grounded Wednesday in California after one of the aircraft crashed into a steep canyon wall whi...

DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a little more than a week after his illness ...

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A woman and her boyfriend were due to appear in court Wednesday on charges they put alcohol in her disabled 13-year-old son’...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two police officers from New York have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an Atlantic City casino. Lawyers fo...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After more than half a century of intrigue and mystery, the U.S. Department of Energy has declassified documents related to a...

DENVER (AP) — Medical personnel responding to the Colorado theater shooting struggled to get to some of the victims due to poor communication about ho...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The daughter of a woman beheaded during an attack at an Oklahoma food plant where she worked calls her mother “a caring and compas...

BOSTON (AP) — School and law enforcement officials in New England say they are dealing with an unusually high number of bomb threats that have forced ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controll...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Cleveland man who killed 11 women and hid the remains in and around his home deserves a new trial because a judge wrongly clos...

NEW YORK (AP) — Public hospitals in New York City are so concerned about Ebola, they’ve secretly been sending actors with mock symptoms into emergency...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Church officials and preservationists are trying to figure out what happened to several 1.5-ton gargoyles from a Massachusetts...

Here’s the legal status of gay marriage in all 50 states, a day after the Supreme Court in one fell swoop effectively raised the number of states wher...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Prosecutors in Montana say a man caught leaving a house he had apparently burglarized apologized to the homeowner and offered h...