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WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly shootings at military sites in Tennessee illustrate the threat that FBI officials have warned about: violence directed ag...

BOSTON (AP) — After a federal jury gave Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the death penalty for his crimes, survivors of the 2013 attack expres...

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was released from a Maine hospital on Sunday, four days after the 91-year-old fell at hi...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Each morning for nearly three months, Sandy Phillips would wake at dawn, drive seven minutes to the courthouse, down a cup of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans’ swift condemnation of Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about Sen. John McCain’s military service marks a turning poi...

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley arrived at the annual Netroots Nation convention hoping to impres...

Under oath in a hotel — away from the TV cameras and the soapbox where he did his public moralizing — Bill Cosby sketched a very different image of Am...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 21-year-old man accidentally drowned in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home owned by actress Demi Moore on Sunday morning, co...

THORNVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A Marine slain in the Chattanooga shootings was scheduled to leave the reserve center where he was killed within days or weeks...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alzheimer’s has ravaged generations of Dean DeMoe’s family — his grandmother, father, siblings — all in their 40s and 50s. DeMoe him...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The University at Buffalo has received an $800,000 grant from the Navy to work on next-generation power technology. The Office of...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has added 1.1 million people to Medicaid since the state health exchange opened last year in the national effort to conne...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of Israeli outrage over the Iran nuclear accord, the Pentagon is moving quickly to reinforce arguably the strongest part...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel’s ambassador to the United States raced in and out of offices on Capitol Hill, trying to persuade lawmakers that the nuclear ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ midsummer to-do list may take until Christmas to clear. At the top are maintaining the flow of highway funding, easing aut...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) is now detained in the highest-security prison in the country. Tsar...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The latest on the Chattanooga shootings at two military facilities (all times local): 5 p.m. An Ohio company says the man wh...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pitbull is the latest star to take a bite out of Donald Trump. The rapper called Trump out at Premios Juventad, the Spanish-language a...

LEE, Maine (AP) — A former convict beat a man and stole guns and a pickup truck before shooting five people, two of them fatally, during a rampage acr...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that a lawsuit over a sex tape can proceed against rapper 50 Cent, despite his bankrup...