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NEW YORK (AP) — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abysmal showing, only about one-quarter of U.S. high school seniors performed solidly in math on a national assessment known a...

DETROIT (AP) — There's no need to tell owners of recalled General Motors small cars to stop driving them, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary A...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Firefighters found four bodies in a burning mansion owned by former tennis star James Blake, who was renting out the Tampa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday broadened its national crackdown on synthetic drug manufacturers, wholesalers and r...

VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — Surveying the residue of nature's destructive power in the country's midsection, President Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to resi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Famed research test pilot Bill Dana, who flew the X-15 rocket plane and other pioneering aircraft during the birth of the space age...

NEW YORK (AP) — Three skydivers spent about four hours atop the World Trade Center's signature skyscraper taking in sights before parachuting off it, ...

CARTHAGE, Texas (AP) — A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie will soon go free, after t...

SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — A pair of ospreys has quieted a fire alarm in one New Jersey shore town, and that has ruffled some feathers in the fire depar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats opened the door Tuesday to participating in a special panel's investigation of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen media organizations challenged the government's ban on the use of drones by journalists Tuesday, saying the Federa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is sending technical experts to aid the Nigerian government's search for nearly 300 teenage girls who were kidnapp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two members of the Russian dissident punk group Pussy Riot came to the Capitol Tuesday and asked members of Congress to add 16 offic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal sc...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Booming production of oil and natural gas has exacted a little-known price on some of the nation's roads, contributing to a s...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A carabiner is the only piece of equipment investigators have found that failed in a circus accident in which eight aerial acr...

CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — Cornealious "Mike" Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the United States attempts to punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Treasury Department is deploying an economic weapon t...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — This seaside city thought it had the perfect solution the last time California withered in a severe drought more than two...