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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Forget fax machines or email attachments — developers hoping to build casinos in New York state are using boxes, binders and truck...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Yankee Stadium ticket stub signed by Lou Gehrig on July 4, 1939 — the day he retired from baseball — is going on the auction block. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal effort to provide drones regular access to U.S. skies faces significant hurdles and won’t meet a September 2015 deadline...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s sending about 200 more U.S. troops to Iraq to protect Americans and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates go up Tuesday for students taking out new federal loans. This hike is relatively minimal but could foreshadow more in...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One person remained in critical condition Monday after a weekend gunfight on Bourbon Street, the historic thoroughfare of nightspot...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA has tested new technology designed to bring spacecraft — and one day even astronauts — safely down to Mars, with the agency de...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A businessman looking to invest more time in his traveling concession business is seeking a buyer for his rural, southeastern ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is seeking more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico bord...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is wildly unpopular. In fact, two-thirds of Americans want their own House member booted. And the tea party is dogging long...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Proctor & Gamble executive Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Marine who was declared a deserter nearly 10 years ago after disappearing in Iraq and then returning to the U.S. claiming he had b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is concerned that battle-hardened militants who have spent time in Syria and Iraq could present a rising thre...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Citing a rising number of calls to poison control centers relating to liquid nicotine, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday called ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — This Lake Erie city has suffered some bad public relations over the years and has made headlines for all the wrong reasons: poverty, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first prosecution arising from the Benghazi attacks is playing out in the federal courthouse blocks from both the White House an...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — A gun buyback has resulted in the collection of 30 unused or unwanted shotguns, rifles and handguns The Binghamton Press & Sun...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state residents are being urged to avoid mosquito bites this summer now that health officials have found the season’s fir...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama will seek more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. thro...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man charged with murder after his 22-month-old son died in a hot SUV searched online for information about kids dying in cars...