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SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it will spend $50 million — on top of $10 million already committed — to s...

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — For the first time in years, Apple’s iPhones weren’t the star of the show. Apple unveiled a smartwatch on Tuesday, a wearable...

MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man angry about his property taxes was fatally shot during a public meeting Tuesday after he pulled a gun from a briefc...

BOSTON (AP) — A push by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to move his trial outside Massachusetts has led to a war of words — and pape...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Lt. Gov. Lavon Heidemann resigned from office Tuesday and withdrew from the Republican gubernatorial ticket after a judg...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — City leaders in Ferguson, where the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer sparked days of some...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of children in about a dozen states have been sickened by a severe respiratory illness that public health officials suspect ma...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reported to a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, on Monday to begin serving a 10-year sentence....

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California are searching for a mountain lion that attacked a 6-year-old boy and began dragging him aw...

PHOENIX (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Norbert pushed into the desert Southwest, swamping metro Phoenix with the city’s all-time record rainfall for...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For the first time since it declared California’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional, the federal appeals court in San Francisco i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says there is no question in his mind that he would have been more effective in the Wh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are streaming back to Capitol Hill after their summer vacation for an abbreviated September session in which feuding Democ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, President Barack Obama berated Republicans for putting their own political interests ahead of good policy on immigration....

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A developer presumed dead with his wife in a private plane crash near Jamaica had an “uncanny instinct” for revitalizing prop...

NEW YORK (AP) — The shirt a Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and a special coin given to a CIA officer who played a key role in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration u...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A search-and-rescue operation resumed at first light Saturday off Jamaica's northeast coast as crews hope to solve the myster...