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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress ran full-tilt into election-year gridlock over immigration Thursday and staggered toward a five-week summer break with no a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is overhauling poultry plant inspections for the first time in more than 50 years, a move it says could res...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid rancorous debate over other weighty issues Thursday on Capitol Hill, lawmakers wondered aloud whether driving cars after smokin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For millions of workers, happy days aren’t quite here again. Though the U.S. unemployment rate has plunged since the start of last y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fees that banks charge debit-card users who overdraw their accounts usually cost more than the items being bought. That’s the re...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Southwest Airlines and SeaWorld Entertainment are ending their 25-year-old marketing partnership, officials with both companies s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former IRS official at the heart of the agency’s tea party controversy called some right-wing Republicans “crazies” and more in em...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When FBI agents and police officers fanned out across the country last month in a weeklong effort to rescue child sex trafficking vi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have flocked to for-profit colleges, including a troubled chain that is closing or selling its campuse...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews strengthened old containment lines on Wednesday, as they tried to keep a blaze in Yosemite National P...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A police officer who was at the scene of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing says he saw surveillance cameras at the federal building...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man faces charges after authorities say a couple found him naked and sleeping in their bed. Investigators say 30...

NEW YORK (AP) — He’s been one of the nation’s most influential record promoters, the producer of an Oscar-nominated movie, a defendant who successfull...

SHINGLE SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Some firefighters battling a Northern California wildfire that prompted evacuation orders for more than 400 homes befor...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The manager of a Florida business where George Zimmerman was questioned by police said Tuesday that Zimmerman was never hired to ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A jury awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million on Tuesday in his lawsuit against the estate of “American Snipe...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man cleared of murder and rape charges after being imprisoned for two decades has appealed to a Connecticut claims official f...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman whose 15-month-old son died this month after her husband left him in a car on a hot day said Tuesday he is...

Systemic errors led to a 2012 train derailment in New Jersey that released a dangerous gas into the air, sickening residents and emergency responders,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear m...