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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — An unarmed 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police in suburban St. Louis after an altercation that involved two peopl...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — College students have heard a similar refrain for years in campaigns to stop sexual assault: No means no. Now, as universities around...

Drafted by a suffragette in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has been stirring up controversy ever since. Many opponents considered it dead when a 10-...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Ten years after he announced that he was a “gay American” and would resign from office after a scandal-plagued stint as New Jerse...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The level of codfish spawning in one of the most critical fisheries in the Northeast U.S. is at an all-time low, putting more p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America's renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn't...

DENVER (AP) — A woman who starved her four young sons and kept them in a filthy, feces-strewn Denver apartment could spend up to seven years in prison...

DENVER (AP) — His labor of love began with an effort to find the owner of a Purple Heart that was given to him as a gift. Since then, Zachariah Fike (...

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that a New Mexico city must remove a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the l...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled as reasonable $1.8 million in damages awarded to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in a defamation ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq Thursday night, warning they would be launched if needed to defen...

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude-4.5 earthquake has rattled Hawaii’s Big Island, as two hurricanes rumbled toward the is...

WILLINGBORO, N.J. (AP) — John F. Kennedy’s name is coming off a town-owned building in New Jersey, and President Barack Obama’s name is going on it. W...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police say the cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, have turned up in a former...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators did not have enough evidence until last month to take custody of a 7-year-old Wyoming boy who was allegedly kept in...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The remains of two missing airmen have been accounted for 70 years after they disappeared when their plane went down over Papua...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s state schools superintendent says she has reached a $3 million settlement with CTB/McGraw-Hill after disruptions to stan...

DENVER (AP) — Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson says failed leadership is one reason some veterans hospitals are falling short even while others are ex...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say an Indianapolis woman admitted giving birth in a warehouse restroom then dumping the newborn boy in a garbage can,...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals court was set to hear arguments Wednesday in six gay marriage fights from four states — Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio a...