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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks moved higher in early trading Thursday after the government reported that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative groups once...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bipartisan Senate opposition blocked swift confirmation Wednesday for President Barack Obama's choice to head the Justice Department...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annua...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are dismissing President Barack Obama's new $3.9 trillion budget as nothing more than a Democratic manifesto for this fa...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two men were found guilty of stealing an American company's secret recipe for making a chemical used to whiten products from cars...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation's largest coal producers will pay a $27.5 million fine and spend $200 million to reduce illegal toxic discharges i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to the possibility of making it harder for investors to join together to sue corporations...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will allow a two-year extension for people whose individual health insurance policies don't comply with req...

Authorities say unemployment and drug addiction have spurred an increase in the destructive practice of cutting off the knobby growths at the base of ...

DETROIT (AP) — A fire ripped through a Detroit apartment building early Wednesday morning, forcing dozens of adults and children to leap to safety fro...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks opened little changed Wednesday after a survey showed that U.S. companies added slightly more jobs in February than in the prev...

EWING, N.J. (AP) — A day after a gas leak and subsequent explosion devastated a suburban town house development, killing one woman and injuring seven ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two years after Congress approved a landmark bill to overhaul the federal flood insurance program, lawmakers are poised to...

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — The Air Force Academy in Colorado was investigating whether 40 freshman cadets cheated in a chemistry class by copying...

BOSTON (AP) — A chemist who admitted faking test results in criminal cases was the "sole bad actor" in a scandal that forced the shutdown of a state d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group affiliated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a nationwide ad on Monday that implores House Republicans to...

MOSCOW (AP) — Stepping back from the brink of war, Vladimir Putin talked tough but cooled tensions in the Ukraine crisis in his first comments since i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's election-year budget seeks to rally fellow Democrats with new help for the working poor and fresh money for...

NEW YORK (AP) — United Airlines is getting tough on passengers with oversized carry-on bags, even sending some of them back to the ticket counter to c...