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WASHINGTON (AP) — Unreasonable workloads and poor leadership at the Veterans Affairs facility in Philadelphia have led to mismanagement and delays in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee appears to be making progress on a bipartisan update to the No Child Left Behind education law. The committee pas...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A jury could be seated Tuesday in the Colorado theater shooting case, capping a nearly three-month selection process that exp...

BOSTON (AP) — Jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev must stay away from this year's marathon and any e...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The attorney who brought a $40 million lawsuit following the fatal shooting of a black man by a white officer in Ferguso...

GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police said Tuesday they were investigating the fatal shooting of a gay community college worker as a possible hate crime. The ...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 73-year-old Oklahoma volunteer sheriff's deputy who authorities said fatally shot a suspect after confusing his stun gun and han...

MIAMI (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday took on Hillary Rodham Clinton in his first words as a presidential candidate, telling top donors he is runnin...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors heard closing arguments Monday in the case against a man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance whil...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A man can be heard apologizing and admitting to shooting a person in a video that documents the killing of a black suspect by a wh...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Lamborghini driven by a customer at an exotic-car racing attraction on Walt Disney World property crashed into a guardrail, kil...

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge sentenced convicted murderer Jodi Arias to life in prison without the possibility of release on Monday, ending a nearly seven-y...

HONOLULU (AP) — No news is good news. That might have been the bumper sticker for Ash Carter’s first tour of Asia as secretary of defense. It was most...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton thanked the mayor and police chief in North Charleston on Sunday for their response to the fatal sh...

BOSTON (AP) — Two years after the Boston Marathon bombings, few survivors appear to be taking advantage of free wellness programs meant to help with a...

CLEVELAND (AP) — A woman was dangling her 2-year-old son over a railing at the Cleveland zoo when he fell about 10 feet into a cheetah exhibit, zoo of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A precautionary lockdown of the U.S. Capitol was lifted after about two hours Saturday following an apparent suicide. The man died a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped back into presidential politics on Sunday, announcing her much-awaited second campaign for the White H...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The owner of a 17-pound Siamese cat named Liam says he has nearly used up his nine lives after getting shocked on a power pol...

BOSTON (AP) — Transportation Security Administration workers collected more than $13,000 in spare change left behind by travelers at Boston's Logan In...