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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The organizer of a World War II party that included Nazi flags and men in SS uniforms apologized Wednesday after a photo of the eve...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — If the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline ever gains approval, Ronald Weber will watch from his farmhouse as workers lay the line ...

MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush gets the question at just about every public appearance these days: Will you run for president? The former Florida governor give...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman at the center of a sexual case against a former Naval Academy football player testified Tuesday that the midshipman "kind ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden and European leaders unleashed a torrent of angry words Tuesday against Russia's "dark path" as Western...

SEATTLE (AP) — A news helicopter crashed into a street and burst into flames Tuesday near Seattle's Space Needle, killing two people on board, badly i...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nothing sparks consumer demand like the word "free," and politicians in some states have proposed the idea of providing that inc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It will be all about education and people-to-people connections when first lady Michelle Obama heads for China with her mother and d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of Navy SEALs has taken control of a stateless oil tanker seized earlier in the month by Libyan rebels, the Pentagon said Mon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Monday to help break the logjam to elusive Mideast peace...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unsuccessful with previous threats, the United States and its European allies stepped up their pressure on Russia to end its interve...

SEATTLE (AP) — A California man who spoke of wanting to bomb the Los Angeles subway system was arrested near the Canadian border in Washington state a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio is looking to reassert its political clout by pressing forward with three bids to host the Republican National Convention, comp...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a wealthy arts and fashion patron, friend of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and political benefactor who fu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic s...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon women's group pushing for gender equality was informed Monday that its members won't be allowed to protest on church pr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning of a "crisis in public confidence," former staffers for an influential 1975 Senate committee that investigated CIA abuses as...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kanye West on pleaded no contest Monday to misdemeanor battery against a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport in a spe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers say they have spotted evidence that a split-second after the Big Bang, the newly formed universe ballooned out at a pace s...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Officials revealed a new timeline Monday suggesting the final voice transmission from the cockpit of the missing Malaysi...