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DETROIT (AP) — Anthony Brown keeps his home of 36 years in good shape, but it is an island of tranquility in a sea of blight in Detroit’s Marygrove ne...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia county has voted to demolish a building and parking garage that houses one of the most historic journalism sites of t...

CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut say an apparent hoarder has died after the cluttered first floor of her home collapsed into the basement....

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. aircraft carrier was ordered to move into the Persian Gulf on Saturday as the United State laid out specific ways for Iraq to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s crunch time at the Supreme Court, where the justices are racing to issue opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks. The reli...

WASHINGTON (AP) — From the Rose Garden, President Barack Obama outlined a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of the last U.S. troops in Afghanistan ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation aimed at letting people refinance their student loans at lower rates, a pre-orda...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate acted Wednesday to help thousands of military veterans enduring long wait times for VA medical care, as the FBI revealed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Wednesday that the economy should grow at much stronger rates the rest of this year as the country...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government lawyers will review how the Obama administration releases some criminal immigrants facing deportation, Homeland Security ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — City living has been a blessing for Tim Nelson. The Phoenix lawyer moved downtown a few months ago into a new $389,000 home with a w...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police said Wednesday that detectives talked on three occasions earlier this year with a married couple who killed two offi...

TIOGA, N.D. (AP) — Drilling crews are eager to plunge their equipment into the ground. Road builders are ready to start highway projects, and construc...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Saluting graduates as they leave the safety of high school behind, President Barack Obama held up a revitalized technical scho...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in his Republican primary election Tuesday to a little-known economics professor, a stunni...

SEATTLE (AP) — The gunman who killed one student and wounded two others at a small Seattle college last week had stopped taking his medications becaus...

TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — A teen gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a student Tuesday and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself at a h...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — More county clerks in Wisconsin began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Tuesday, setting aside frustration with the lack ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pregnant women are being advised by the government to eat more fish, but there won’t be any labels or signs to let them know which f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — How do you have a conversation about prescription drugs that provide critical pain relief to millions of Americans yet also cause mo...