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NEW YORK (AP) — Breakfast is now being served with a side of sticker shock. The price of bacon is surging and the cost of other morning staples, like ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police are urging lawmakers to preserve an exemption in Hawaii law that lets undercover officers have sex with prostitutes du...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police across the country may be intercepting phone calls or text messages to find suspects using a technology tool known as Stingra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hope is fading for a Capitol Hill drive to permanently fix Medicare's outdated payment formula and spare doctors from automatic cuts...

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — A fire early Friday destroyed a New Jersey shore motel that was housing people displaced by Superstorm Sandy, killin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing back against demands to supply arms to Ukraine, Obama administration officials said Friday that economic sanctions would rem...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding heat on the CIA, the Senate will investigate a computer network that contained a still-secret review of U.S. terror interroga...

NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old New Jersey boy described as a thrill-seeker bypassed an inattentive security guard in the middle of the night and climbe...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court tossed out a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson on Thursday, reversing a lower court ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fred Phelps did not care what you thought of his Westboro Baptist Church, nor did he care if you heard its message that society's ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market bounced back on Thursday. Encouraging signs on the first day of spring that the economy is emerging from its winter s...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who carried on a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordina...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing's design and manufacture of its cutting-edge 787 jetliner is safe despite the many problems encountered since the plane's rol...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An industrial plant that knowingly released hundreds of tons of the carcinogen benzene into the air over a five-year span and imp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting in a tub of warm water can relieve a mom-to-be's pain during the early stages of labor, but actually giving birth under wate...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for a former Naval Academy football player charged with sexual assault grilled his accuser on the witness stand Wednesday,...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's advances in Ukraine are the greatest threat to European security since the Cold War, NATO's chief said Wednesday, making cl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday joined Gov. Jerry Brown in expressing skepticism about legalizing marijuana in California for rec...