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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence fell slightly in February over concerns about the near-term outlook for business conditions and jobs. The C...

FORT ERIE, Ontario (AP) — U.S. customs officers began inspecting U.S.-bound cargo trucks in Canada Monday under a pilot program intended to relieve co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hard to vote against veterans these days. Majority Leader Harry Reid is counting on voters as well as lawmakers feeling that wa...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy swerved her Lexus into a truck, damaging the car and blowing a tire, but kept driving and later was slumped at...

DENVER (AP) — Denver on Monday formally submitted its bid to host the 2016 Republican National Convention, arguing that its success with the 2008 Demo...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — An ex-Marine from Virginia was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison for killing a New York school superintendent over ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The government's largest-ever study of Hispanics' health may help answer why they live longer than other Americans but the first result...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The cost of going to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World just got more expensive. Disney World has raised the one-day...

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Gov. Jan Brewer faced intensifying pressure Monday from CEOs, politicians in Washington and state lawmakers in her own party...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Bernanke, who stepped down last month after eight years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, is planning a memoir. Bernanke told Th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday over the sole Obama administration program already in place to limit power plant and fa...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — During the historic D-Day invasion of World War II, Walter D. Ehlers accomplished some of the most awe-inspiring acts of bravery im...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — More airborne radiation has been detected in southeastern New Mexico from a leak at the nation's first underground nuclear waste...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police were hoping Monday that distributing a security video of a car striking a man in the parking lot of a convenience st...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg, known for his outsized ambitions for Facebook, is applying a similar long-term vision to bringing the Internet to the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel is recommending shrinking the Army to its smallest size in decades in an effort to balance defense needs ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — His domestic priorities stalled in a divided Congress, President Barack Obama is looking for allies among America's governors. The p...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — While security has tightened at the U.S. border, drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the high seas. The area where boats were ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday announced the first major overhaul of the Vatican's outdated and inefficient bureaucracy in a quarter-centu...