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WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that homeowners who declare bankruptcy can't void a second mortgage even if the home isn't wo...

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston attorney who specializes in defending people charged with drunken driving has pleaded not guilty to operating a boat while drun...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court strengthened civil rights protections Monday for employees and job applicants who need special treatment in the wo...

CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert will be arraigned this week following an indictment that alleges he agreed to pay $3.5 million...

NEW YORK (AP) — A massive air-conditioning unit being lifted by a crane to the top of a Manhattan office building broke free Sunday, fell 28 stories a...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a man has died after officers used a stun gun to subdue him during an arrest in Rochester. Chief Michael Ciminelli s...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — He was the privileged son of a longtime U.S. senator and two-term vice president, yet Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III was no stranger to...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A bitter struggle for control over the nation’s oldest synagogue goes to trial this week, with lawyers saying they may use more t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours from a midnight deadline for contested anti-terror measures to expire, no solution was in sight as the Senate convened an extr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elfriede Rinkel’s past as a Nazi concentration camp guard didn’t keep her from collecting nearly $120,000 in American Social Securit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than ...

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has delayed his trip back to the United States to stay in a Swiss hospital overnight after breaking h...

HAIPHONG, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he’ll find out who was responsible for the mistaken shipments of live anthrax to 11 st...

DALLAS (AP) — Most of Texas was set to get its first period of extended sunshine in weeks, allowing surging rivers to recede as emergency-management o...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Christian college in suburban Chicago has removed the name of former U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert from an academic research c...

MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Two people were stabbed at a Tufts University fraternity house early Sunday, leading the school to briefly issue a shelter-in-pl...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley entered the Democratic presidential race on Saturday in a longshot challenge to Hillary Ro...

CHICAGO (AP) — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid hush money to conceal claims that the Illinois Republican sexually molested someone decades ag...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Friday that the Army's mistaken shipments of live anthrax to research laboratories were more widespread than it in...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers on Friday approved carrying handguns openly on the streets of the nation's second most-populous state, sending th...