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WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden says he repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about National Security Agency surveillance internally, but an NSA ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee has endorsed a Republican plan to allow some schools to opt out of healthier meal standards. The vote comes as fir...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy took a beating from an especially harsh winter during the January-March quarter, skidding into reverse for the firs...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elliot Rodger created an extensive record of writings and videos before he killed six people and left 13 others wounded in a rampag...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — In a stately neighborhood of Boulder, a city known as the Berkeley of the Rocky Mountains, a bull elk named “Big Boy” had become...

NEW YORK (AP) — Measles cases are accelerating, and in the last five months have caused more U.S. illnesses than in any entire year since 1996. Health...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has given a former coal mining town in East Tennessee the go-ahead to change its name to Rocky Top — a move th...

HOUSTON (AP) — The amount of explosive gas tainting a North Texas neighborhood’s water supply has increased in recent years, but the state’s oil and g...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Things were quiet at a convenience store in Southern Oregon when a tattooed man came in and started dousing himself with Hawa...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Students returned to classes Wednesday at the University of California, Santa Barbara, after the weekend rampage that left six s...

WILD RICE, N.D. (AP) — Lillian Johnson has buried her husband and other family members in a tiny southeastern North Dakota cemetery that would be thre...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $650 million to settle thousands of U.S. claims ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off the official wait list at the tr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is striking back at House Republicans who are trying to weaken healthier school meal standards, saying any...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fake appointments, unofficial logs kept on the sly and appointments made without telling the patient are among tricks used to disgui...

HOMER CITY, Pa. (AP) — Three years ago, the operators of one of the nation’s dirtiest coal-fired power plants warned of “immediate and devastating” co...

COLLBRAN, Colo. (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday called off the search for three ranchers who disappeared after a huge mudslide in a remote part of weste...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A massive, wind-whipped wildfire in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is growing after evacuation orders were issued, but fire manager...

NEW YORK (AP) — A prolific computer hacker who infiltrated the servers of major corporations later switched sides and helped the government disrupt hu...

COLLBRAN, Colo. (AP) — Rescue teams were searching Monday for three men reported missing after a ridge collapsed in a remote part of western Colorado ...