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WASHINGTON (AP) — Burned by the failed rollout of his health care law, President Barack Obama is seeking to build a team for the final years of his ad...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of 16 people were found in two different areas of a northern Mexico border state where a surge in violence in recent wee...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday refused to reconsider its previous ruling that businesses don’t have to prove they were directly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is threatening a veto of the House version of a $601 billion defense bill over election-year moves to spare weapons ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Los Alamos National Laboratory packed 57 barrels of nuclear waste with a type of kitty litter believed to have caused a radia...

POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — Working to fill campaign coffers for House Democrats, President Barack Obama poked fun at Republicans on Monday for placing an ele...

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (AP) — In many ways, Children's Village resembles an idyllic college campus, with its abundant open spaces, handsome buildings, bran...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City minister who was the subject of an Associated Press investigation about misspent 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina charity fu...

NEW YORK (AP) — Leaders of the soon-to-open Sept. 11 museum portrayed it as a monument to unity and resilience ahead of its dedication Thursday, sayin...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Weeks before an underground accident killed two workers, employees at a problem-plagued West Virginia mine were notified that...

MIAMI (AP) — The first thing Michelle Pool did before picking a plan under President Barack Obama's health insurance law was check whether her longtim...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Amy Miner says the last night of her husband's life got off to an amazing start. Kryn Miner and his wife attended a wedding in ...

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — With New York's aging Tappan Zee Bridge looming behind him, President Barack Obama called on congressional Republicans to spend...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Progress toward integrating America's schools since the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago is being c...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times on Wednesday announced that executive editor Jill Abramson is being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet after t...

The number of possible victims of a teacher suspected of drugging and molesting boys during a four-decade career at nearly a dozen schools around the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It could have been over for Kyle J. White just 30 seconds into the Taliban ambush, when a rocket-propelled grenade knocked him uncon...

WHARTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two miners who were killed on the job Monday night worked in a coalfield that had so many safety problems federal officials deem...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken won what had been a hotly contested Democratic primary for a North Carolina congressional seat ...

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A man claiming to be God rammed a truck through the front of a Baltimore-area television station Tuesday, leaving a gaping hole as ...