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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder was just months into the job when he announced plans to prosecute the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack...

WASHINGTON (AP) — How much difference will it make if Republicans win the Senate majority on Nov. 4, joining the GOP-run House against a Democratic Wh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overe...

LANCASTER, N.Y. (AP) — Two people, including a child, were killed when two small planes collided in western New York on Saturday at an event to introd...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A handful of existing gambling operations in New York are bidding for new upstate casinos amid fears of a crowding market. New Yor...

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's air travel system slowly began to recover Saturday after an alleged act of employee sabotage at a large regional air traff...

CLEVELAND (AP) — James Traficant, the colorful Ohio politician whose conviction for taking bribes and kickbacks made him only the second person to be ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is the one figure uniting religious conservatives frustrated by a leaderless Republican Party that's divided ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton are grandparents. Their daughter, Chelsea, gave birth Friday to her first child, Charlotte. Chelsea ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was sho...

CHICAGO (AP) — All flights in and out of Chicago’s two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control center that authorit...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A man who had been fired from a food processing plant in an Oklahoma City suburb beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking a...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A homeless man living in his truck helped police solve the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white man during an argum...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts doctor who is one of three American aid workers successfully treated after contracting the Ebola virus in West...

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Rainy weather was helping firefighters make significant progress Friday in corralling one of Northern California’s largest ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court’s reinstatement of a decade-old $10.1 billion class-action verdict agai...

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler is recalling nearly 350,000 cars and SUVs to fix ignition switches that could unexpectedly shut off the engines. The recall co...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The third American aid worker who contracted Ebola in Africa was released Thursday from a Nebraska hospital. An elated Dr. Rick Sac...

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service said Thursday it is extending the period for the public to weigh in on a proposal that would make permanent new...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook a large swath of Alaska on Thursday morning, knocking things off shelves and causing people to ta...