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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A pre-dawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin on Monday, rattling residents from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who admitted to inappropriate relationships with three soldiers who had served under his command pleaded guilt...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — In a normal year, many of the prime summer beach house rentals at the Jersey shore would be gone already, snapped up by vacati...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to sign into law a bipartisan bill relieving homeowners living in flood-prone neighborhoods from big i...

NEW YORK (AP) — St. Patrick's Day festivities were in full swing Sunday with the usual merriment of bagpipes and beer, but political tensions lingered...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The windy plains of Kansas could be a treasure trove in the nation's effort to harness clean energy, but a major proposal to move win...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Defense attorneys said Sunday that the Army will drop sexual assault charges against a general under a plea deal that marks the e...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officers at thousands of law enforcement agencies are wearing tiny cameras to record their interactions with the public, but in man...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A beetle the size of a single grain of rice is the latest best hope for hemlocks in the Southeast that have been felled by the mi...

NEW YORK (AP) — The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has exposed wide gaps in how the world's airlines — and their regulators — operate. ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The FBI is refusing to run nationwide background checks on people applying to run legal marijuana businesses in Washington state, even ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal investigators have uncovered a series of shortcomings in safety training, emergency response and oversight at the tro...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of immigrants illegally ...

BOSTON (AP) — The maker of Sam Adams beer announced Friday that it is withdrawing its sponsorship of Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade because organiz...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a disastrous start and relentless Republican opposition, President Barack Obama said Friday that enrollment in his signature...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — From portable beach jails to extra emergency medical staffing, Florida is coping with the annual — but not altogether unwelcome...

NEW YORK (AP) — Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a ga...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial trucks and buses that cross state lines would have to be equipped with electronic devices that record how many hours the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general has concluded there "is no compelling medical reason" for the U.S....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Failings exposed last spring at a U.S. nuclear missile base, reflecting what one officer called "rot" in the ranks, were worse than ...