nation

Eighty years after the federal Works Progress Administration put unemployed artists to work creating sculptures and murals for post offices and courth...

NEW YORK (AP) — The government should spend more money safeguarding railroad crossings that are “accidents waiting to happen,” two U.S. senators said ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — It’s one of the first questions that occurs to a visitor at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate: How much of the mansion ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A border collie named Tex jumped, wove and ran to a win Saturday at the Westminster Kennel Club agility contest. Tex beat a field of 3...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a computer glitch got patched up, supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care law were out in force Sunday trying to ge...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner is raising the possibility that the Department of Homeland Security may shut down at month’s end because ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drone on, the government says. Just not through the night sky. Or close to an airport. Or out of the operator’s sight. And probably ...

BOSTON (AP) — Another weekend, another major snow storm: The latest system to sweep the Northeast brought another foot to Boston — on top of 6 feet th...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — If his Facebook page is any indication, Craig Hicks doesn’t hate Muslims. An avowed atheist, his online posts instead depict ...

BOSTON (AP) — A storm brought a new round of wind-whipped snow to New England on Sunday, creating near-whiteout conditions in coastal areas and forcin...

NEW YORK (AP) — A hacking ring has stolen up to $1 billion from banks around the world in what would be one of the biggest banking breaches known, a c...

MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush was preparing to release the emails he sent and received as Florida governor when he was excoriated by a letter-writer to The Mi...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The suspect in the deaths of three Muslim college students in North Carolina had at least a dozen firearms stashed in his home, a...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Police say the 10-year-old daughter of a California sheriff's lieutenant shot her younger sister with their father's gun in an a...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bizarre sheet of wispy clouds undulating over the Teton Range enchanted tourists and even veteran employees of Grand Teton Nat...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's stand against gay marriage crumbled Friday as judges in most counties sided with federal courts rather than their ow...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 75-year-old former head of an investment firm has been sentenced in New York to six years in prison in a fraud scheme. James Tagli...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona sheriff known for clashing with the federal government and cracking down on illegal immigration will face a civil contempt-o...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed state records and electronic communications relating to departing Gov. John Kitzhaber, his fian...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new report shows this winter's nasty flu season has peaked and is clearly retreating. The flu reached its highest levels around the ...