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GILLSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Residents living above an oil-rich shale formation that stretches across southwest Mississippi and Louisiana have been waiting...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Masked gunmen stormed parliament in Ukraine's strategic Crimea region Thursday as Russian fighter jets scrambled to patrol ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hinckley, who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, soon will be spending more than half of his time outside a Wash...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Senate on Thursday derailed Democratic legislation that would have provided $21 billion for medical, education and job-tra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A protest group has posted what appears to be the first video of the Supreme Court taken inside the courtroom with the court in sess...

WASHINGTON (AP) — First the teenager survived a rare cancer. Then she wanted to study it, spurring a study that helped scientists find a weird gene fl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits rose 14,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, though the broa...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament on Wednesday voted for tougher anti-smoking rules that will make health warnings on cigarette packs larger and...

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday the European allies must start bearing more of the burden of modernizing NATO or ris...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Those "Nutrition Facts" labels that are plastered on nearly every food package found in grocery stores are getting a new look. Calor...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Tear apart an electric car's rechargeable battery and you'll find a mineral normally associated with No. 2 pencils. It's grap...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Thirteen workers at the nation's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico have tested positive for radiation...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles International Airport police dispatcher who received a call seconds after a gunman opened fire last year didn't know ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer slapped down the right wing of her own party, vetoing a bill pushed by social conservatives that wou...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will ask Congress for $300 billion to update aging roads and railways, arguing that th...

KING CITY, Calif. (AP) — One-third of a central California town's police force was taken off duty after several officers were arrested in a scheme to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is asking a secret federal court to let the government keep telephone records collected by the National Secur...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting back against what they call unfair targeting of conservatives, House Republicans on Wednesday voted to delay efforts by the...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — While tiny houses have been attractive for those wanting to downsize or simplify their lives for financial or environmental reaso...

NEW YORK (AP) — Is the anti-obesity message finally getting through? A marked drop in the obesity rate among preschoolers in the U.S. has researchers ...