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BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Cale Holdsworth strode to the counter at Top Shelf Cannabis, inspected and sniffed a glass jar filled with marijuana, and sai...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced Tuesday that more than $43 million will be distributed from a federal fund for...

NEW YORK (AP) — A pharmacist who oversaw a major hospital’s vault of drugs stole nearly 200,000 powerful painkillers he was supposed to safeguard and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A group of restaurant servers, bartenders and delivery drivers wants New York state to raise the $5 minimum wage for tipped worker...

ATLANTA (AP) — A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week — dec...

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have charged a woman with beating her 89-year-old husband to death inside their western New York home. Police in th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal investigative agency is examining 67 claims of retaliation by supervisors at the Department of Veterans Affairs against em...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear President Barack Obama describe it, there’s a creeping case of cynicism setting in across the country, leading Americans to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York has become the 23rd state to authorize marijuana as a medical treatment — though it will have one of the most restrictive pro...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that most unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are unlikely to qualify for humanita...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights will soon be required to power on their electronic devices in ord...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest teachers’ union wants Education Secretary Arne Duncan to quit. Delegates of the National Education Association ...

KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) — A severe thunderstorm packing winds estimated at more than 80 mph spawned a tornado, injured at least six people and caused sig...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A top federal wildlife official said there’s too much uncertainty about climate change to prove it threatens the snow-loving wo...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Mississippi River bridges closed due to flooding, and with more storms in the forecast, there was growing concern Monday that con...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The legal, humanitarian and political constraints facing the Obama administration as it copes with thousands of Central American chi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration is requiring passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights to power ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — How much distance from an immoral act is enough? That’s the difficult question behind the next legal dispute over religion, birth co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — First ladies typically avoid getting into public scraps, but Michelle Obama has jumped into perhaps her biggest battle yet. She’s fi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted the online accounts of legally targeted foreigners over a four-year period it als...