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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top federal investigator has identified “a troubling pattern of deficient patient care” at Veterans Affairs facilities around the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has released into the U.S. an untold number of immigrant families caught traveling illegally from Central A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 170 victims of child sex trafficking, many of whom had never been reported missing, were rescued in the last week as part of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bear isn’t just on the loose. He’s also hungry. In this case, the bear in question is President Barack Obama, who has lately bee...

WESTFIELD, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a western New York woman who was shot in the head by her boyfriend last week has died from her injuries. The Ch...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday night accused President Barack Obama and other Democrats of waging wars against religious li...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish magazine said Sunday it has obtained recordings of a private conversation in which the foreign minister says Poland’s s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of immigrant children fleeing poverty and violence in Central America to cross alone into the United States can live in Am...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida-inspired militants who have violently seized territory in Iraq could grow in power and destabilize other countries in the r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some conservatives are skittish about having a new House majority leader from left-leaning California. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La.,...

Area teen birth rates remain some of the highest in the state, as the nation continues to see a marked decline in teen pregnancies attributed to wider...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved toward passage of a $570 billion defense spending bill that imposes new restrictions on President Barack Obama’s han...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, took part in a nationwide criminal scheme to coo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is zeroing in on the asteroids it wants to capture, haul near the moon and have astronauts visit. Officials on Thursday describ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inching back into a fight he tried to leave behind, President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was dispatching 300 U.S. military a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California capped a meteoric rise through the ranks of power on Thursday, winning election as House majority ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants colleges and universities to compile statistics on stalking, dating violence and domestic violence as...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked Wednesday to have his trial moved to Washington, D.C., saying Boston...

PILGER, Neb. (AP) — Soon the roughly 350 residents of this farming town in northeastern Nebraska will face a momentous decision that people in other U...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awesome power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in the scienti...