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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A civilian boarded a Navy destroyer at the world's largest naval base late at night, took a weapon from a sailor who was standing ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Cannon booms reverberate across the Houston Ship Channel, a scare tactic to keep birds away from oil-slicked beaches. On a mai...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate and House appear headed for a standoff over competing bills to authorize sanctions on Russia and provide aid to Ukraine, ...

JERSEY SHORE, Pa. (AP) — This small, central Pennsylvania river town doesn't have beach homes or boardwalks, but it shares more than a name with the f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A "time capsule" of photographs documenting the descendants of slaves on a long-isolated island off the South Carolina-Georgia coast...

A high-profile anti-fracking activist who often gives tours of natural gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region asked ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is weighing the benefits and risks of two experimental colon cancer screening tests which use DNA f...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Seeking to isolate Russia, the U.S. and Western allies declared Monday they are indefinitely cutting Moscow out of a maj...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than five years after U.S. governors began a bipartisan effort to set new standards in American schools, the Common Core ...

DALLAS (AP) — A newly released air traffic control recording captures the confusion when a Southwest plane landed at the wrong Missouri airport in Jan...

ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The search for survivors of a deadly Washington state mudslide grew Monday to include 108 people who are still unaccounted for...

CHICAGO (AP) — An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at the underground station of one of the nation's ...

ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Voices of people crying for help in the wreckage of a deadly Washington state mudslide have stopped, and hopes of finding any ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A shuttle bus struck a guardrail and overturned before dawn Sunday along busy Interstate 95 south of the nation's capital, leaving o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama's health care law in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — California's drought has sparked a new push by federal lawmakers to create or expand a handful of reservoirs around the state, rampi...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Crews armed with infrared cameras planned to work through the night after a barge carrying nearly a million gallons of especiall...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Vincent Gray often calls the District of Columbia "the envy of the nation" for its robust economy and fast-growing population,...

ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Eighteen people were unaccounted for a day after a terrifying wall of mud, trees and debris destroyed as many as 30 houses in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's been more than 22 years since Anita Hill sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee in that famous bright blue suit — one she coul...