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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top Department of Veterans Affairs officials are stepping down, the beleaguered agency announced Wednesday as it continued reeli...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are developing a way to inject designer immune cells into transplant patients to help fight off severe viral infections. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an emphatic defense of privacy in the digital age, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police generally may not search...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are warning consumers who use anti-acne treatments about rare but potentially deadly allergic reactions tha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a steep annual rate of 2.9 percent in the January-March quarter as a harsh winter contributed to the bigg...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The federal government has given conditional approval to the first vaccine licensed to fight a deadly pig virus, and warmer weather a...

LUSBY, Md. (AP) — Dominion Resources’ proposal to build a liquefied natural gas export facility is dividing residents of the quiet town of Lusby on th...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than 75 U.S. and Canadian scientists have sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking for a policy to preserve what r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday by posthumously bestowing the Congression...

DENVER (AP) — Bill and Hillary Clinton pointed to ways to bolster the economy and achieve broad-based prosperity, responding to weeks of criticism ove...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the government updates its estimate Wednesday of how the U.S. economy fared last quarter, the number is pretty sure to be ugly....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Great Recession and the slow recovery have sharply widened the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else, according...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of the roughly 300 U.S. military advisers and special operations forces expected to go to Iraq are now in Baghdad and ha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States should join the rest of the industrialized world and offer paid leave for ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A would-be thief ran in to some bad times — and the arms of the law — outside a Tampa convenience store. Hillsborough County Sherif...

SEATTLE (AP) — An attorney gave notice Monday that an insanity defense was being considered for a man charged with killing one student and wounding tw...

CHICAGO (AP) — Women with heart failure are less likely to get a special kind of pacemaker than men, but more likely to benefit from the device, a gov...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church excommunicated the founder of a prominent women’s group, a rare move that brings down the harshest punishment ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Authorities were searching Monday for a person whose homemade explosive device went off inside a portable toilet during a softball ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A magnitude-8.0 earthquake was widely felt in communities along Alaska’s sparsely populated Aleutian Islands on Monday, but t...