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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two early morning earthquakes rattled residents in central Oklahoma on Tuesday and caused minor damage at local businesses. The U...

BOSTON (AP) — James MacGregor Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political scientist who analyzed the nature of presidential leadership and...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former South Carolina treasurer, reality TV star and convicted felon Thomas Ravenel plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat curren...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Southern Oregon wildfire destroyed six homes and 14 other buildings, and dozens of additional blazes ignited after thousands o...

NEW YORK (AP) — A second investigation has detailed additional safety problems at federal health laboratories in Atlanta, including the use of expired...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A half-dozen states with backlogs for Medicaid enrollees were facing a federal deadline Monday to create plans for getting t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Deborah Lee James became top boss of the Air Force seven months ago she had no inkling a nuclear crisis was brewing. But once i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who spent nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, was returned to regular duty Monda...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pressing Congress to make a long-term commitment to keep highway and transit aid flowing to states, but la...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is opposing congressional Republicans’ subpoena of a top political adviser to President Barack Obama to testify this...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A state judge has dismissed two lawsuits challenging the state’s delay in finishing its health and environmental analysis of the p...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Like a ship struggling to right itself in a roiling sea, Atlantic City’s casinos are trying mightily to find balance amid a...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — States where hydraulic fracturing is taking place have seen a surge in earthquake activity, raising suspicions that the uncon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Citigroup agreed Monday to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages, admitting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed up with U.S. dominance of the global financial system, five emerging market powers this week will launch their own versions of t...

ATLANTA (AP) — Associated Press Writer Jonathan Landrum Jr. switched from reporter to acting as one during the filming of Starz’s new sitcom “Survivor...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — Three Connecticut residents have pleaded not guilty to causing a disturbance at a Rhode Island house owned by Taylor Swif...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox says Gary Newman and Dana Walden, the two executives who run the company’s television studio, will also be in charge of the Fox br...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Syfy network says Thomas Jane will star as a world-weary detective in an other-worldly thriller for the network. In “The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend. The famous freckle-faced comic book icon is meeting his demise in ...