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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressing for swift action, President Barack Obama on Friday urged Central American presidents and congressional Republicans to help ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after offering competing plans to improve veterans’ health care, the chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee said Friday that it is looking into potential ethics violations by two congressmen, Reps. Bobby Rush, D-I...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a Wyoming man’s lawsuit claiming a group secretly found the missing airplane of aviation pioneer Ame...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bel Kaufman, the witty and spirited fiction writer, educator and storyteller whose million-selling “Up the Down Staircase” captured th...

KAUNAKAKAI, Hawaii (AP) — The likely cause of a Molokai helicopter crash that killed all five people aboard was the pilot flying too close to the moun...

SAN DIEGO — It will take more than a new pair of glasses to allow Texas Gov. Rick Perry to see his own hypocrisy as he ponders what should be America’...

WASHINGTON — Don’t be so sure the Supreme Court is going to save Obamacare. Again. The question is enormously important: Are health care consumers ent...

MIAMI (AP) — Linda Close was grateful to learn she qualified for a sizable subsidy to help pay for her health insurance under the new federal law. But...

FREDERICK, Okla. (AP) — A skydiver from central Illinois was killed earlier this week while taking part in a demonstration jump in Oklahoma to honor W...

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (AP) — A fierce storm packing powerful winds, softball-sized hail and rain toppled dozens of trees and flipped recreational vehicles...

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — The nation’s third execution in six months to go awry rekindled the debate over the death penalty and handed potentially new ev...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — For the first time in three decades, scientists are about to revisit one of North America’s most remarkable troves of ancient fo...

DENVER (AP) — For years, gay rights activists in Colorado repeatedly said it would only be a matter of time before they would be allowed to marry. The...

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been convicted of fatally stabbing his ex-wife 84 times and covering her face with a pig mask. Jurors in ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona’s highest court on Wednesday temporarily halted the execution of a condemned inmate so it could consider a last-minute ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the government lab which potentially exposed workers to live anthrax has resigned, an agency spokesman said Wednesday. Mic...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas man was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and other felonies after an alleged abduction and police...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 89-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect has died, his lawyer said Wednesday, a day after a judge issued an order granting a request...

NEW YORK (AP) — Someone has replaced two American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge with mysterious white flags. The white flags — international symbols of...