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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special forces seized a “key leader” in the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has lost more emails connected to the tea party investigation, congressional investigators said Tuesday...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 130 lawmakers are urging the Obama administration to expand coverage for a lung-cancer test under Medicare that could cost...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from Congress, celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday offered to help “drain the swamp” of unscrupulous marketers using h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food companies and restaurants could soon face government pressure to make their foods less salty — a long-awaited federal effort to...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials on Monday released a short list of five entities that could receive bison from Yellowstone National ...

A bold new way to test cancer drugs started Monday in hundreds of hospitals around the U.S. In a medical version of speed dating, doctors will sort th...

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. (AP) — A smoky wildfire burning near homes in the southern Sierra Nevada west of California’s Lake Isabella was holding steady M...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Except for a sprawling state park and a unicycle drill team that was once a fixture in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades, Newbury Towns...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing output rose in May after in shrinking in April, led by greater production of autos, computers and furniture. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on veterans’ health care could double in three years under the Senate’s solution to the long waits experienced by thousands...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army said Monday it has begun investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the disappearance and capture of Sgt. Bowe B...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court sided with gun control groups and the Obama administration Monday, ruling that the federal government can st...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is considering sending a small number of American special forces soldiers to Iraq in an urgent attempt to help the g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of pressure from gay rights groups, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is poised to accelerate after a dismal start to the year even though the job market won’t return to full employment...

NEW CASTLE, Colo. (AP) — Four in 10 new oil and gas wells near national forests and fragile watersheds or otherwise identified as higher pollution ris...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans, including the vanquished majority leader himself, on Sunday considered Rep. Eric Cantor’s primary loss last week to a l...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ines Moore stirs awake nearly every night to an unmistakable, skin-crawling sound: rats skittering around her apartment in the dark. S...