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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Wealthy eccentric Robert Durst agreed Monday to be returned to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the execution-style shooting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The partisan divide over same-sex marriage among top elected officials remains stark, with Democrats overwhelmingly on record in fav...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo likes to build stuff. He once said he might have been an engineer if he hadn’t gone into politics, and ...

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a man and woman are safe after fleeing a Ford Escape seconds before a freight train demolished it. Police tell local...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Iran plunged back into negotiation Sunday, hoping to end once and for all a decades-long standoff that has rai...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Their reputations sullied by race-tainted incidents, many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities. Despite some swift and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Sunday that he won’t hold a confirmation vote for Loretta Lynch as attorney general before th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has hit as many as 17 separate targets connected to a shadowy al-Qaida cell in Syria known as the Khorasan group, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House delivered a fresh warning to the Senate late Saturday to stay out of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A 20-year-old charged Sunday with shooting two police officers watching over a demonstration outside the Ferguson Police Departmen...

DETROIT (AP) — A man who said he walked 21 miles to and from work each day is settling into a new, suburban Detroit apartment after receiving thousand...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — New research boosts hope that a highly anticipated, experimental class of cholesterol drugs can greatly lower the risk for heart atta...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators would oppose a potential House bipartisan deal preventing cuts in physicians’ Medicare payments if it doesn’t fi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — All the peril and promise of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s expected presidential campaign played out in high relief this past week. In on...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The alumni of a fraternity chapter at the University of Oklahoma shut down after members were caught engaging in a racist chant h...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho sheriff has appealed for the public's help to determine what might connect a slain former Arizona power company executive...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin coroner says a 19-year-old man killed by a Madison police was shot in his head, torso and upper body. The Dane County...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The "violent sleepwalking" defense worked for a man who strangled his 4-year-old and tried to kill his other two children. A jury ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends of a Utah cancer researcher found dead in her bathtub in 2011 say their search for justice came to an end whe...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit arrived safely at the Nati...