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WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — An 85-year-old woman with dementia had a male stripper gyrate in front of her against her will at her suburban New York nurs...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton admitted on Tuesday that he helped the FBI investigate New York Mafia figures in the 1980s, but he called it old ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities in San Francisco on Tuesday were looking for suspects who flipped four Smart cars. The small two-seat cars were flipp...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The rampage at Fort Hood that left three dead and 16 wounded last week was related to the shooter's request for leave from the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading Democrats sharply criticized a former CIA chief on Monday for suggesting that a disputed torture report produced by Sen. Dia...

BOSTON (AP) — A man who says that convicted gangster James "Whitey" Bulger helped frame him in a 1980 murder is now getting support from Bulger in his...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major new survey finds that a growing percentage of Americans gained health insurance as the initial sign-up season for President ...

BEIJING (AP) — The United States' campaign to encourage China to be more open about its military growth and intentions got a symbolic boost Monday, bu...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are n...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A new federal audit has found Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories failed to monitor nuclear weapons designs as well as t...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Far fewer immigrants arrested by California law enforcement are being turned over to federal authorities for deportation since a new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The families of those who died in General Motors cars with defective ignition switches want prosecutors to go after GM insiders resp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental drug has shown encouraging results in treating advanced breast cancer in an early clinical trial, pharmaceutical gia...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeb Bush says all the speculation about whether he’ll run for president in 2016 is actually getting him more attention than if he ha...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the Truvada conundrum: A drug hailed as a lifesaver for many people infected by HIV is at the heart of a rancorous debate among g...

SEATTLE (AP) — It was a sound like a jet engine. Then a forest of trees collapsed. And all was quiet except for the calls for help. LoAnna Langton ran...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. sailors rescued an American family with an ill 1-year-old from a sailboat that broke down hundreds of miles off the Mexican coas...

KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — The church program pictured an empty road being enveloped by the dark clouds of a sweeping thunderstorm, and the service’s lesso...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge said Friday that he will order Ohio to recognize out-of-state gay marriages, a move that strikes down part of the st...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Months after vowing to boost security at a Kansas City school where a student says she was dragged to a room and raped, distri...