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WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared a Senate stalemate Tuesday over immigration provisions attached to a Homeland Security spen...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Net income for farmers is expected to fall by nearly 32 percent this year as corn and soybean prices remain low and expenses c...

MIAMI (AP) — Drivers at drunk-driving checkpoints don’t have to speak to police or even roll down their windows. They just have to place their license...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is setting up a new agency designed to coordinate cyberthreat intelligence that currently is spread across the feder...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, inc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling the Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the su...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheaper, better robots will replace human workers in the world’s factories at a faster pace over the next decade, pushing manufactur...

NEW YORK (AP) — In an interrogation that stretched 12 hours, the man confessed to the murder and supplied chilling details of the crime. Stepping befo...

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jury selection is underway for the trial of the man accused of killing the former Navy SEAL depicted in the movie "American...

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A man had been arguing with his ex-wife over taxes and child support before he showed up at her house and killed her and thre...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Gay couples began getting married in Alabama on Monday morning, despite an 11th-hour attempt from the state's chief justice — ...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — The trial of a Marine who vanished in Iraq a decade ago and then wound up in Lebanon began Monday with a flurry of motions...

BOSTON (AP) — The third major winter storm in less than two weeks inflicted fresh snow — and misery — across New England and portions of New York stat...

BOSTON (AP) — Winter-weary New England braced Sunday for another round of snow threatening to bear down on the region into the workweek and pile up to...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a bronze plaque stolen from Mark Twain’s gravesite in upstate New York has been recovered in good condition. In a state...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — DNA barcoding has exposed some infamous cases of food fraud, like cheap catfish sold as pricey grouper and expensive “sheep’s milk...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Israeli prime minister’s upcoming speech to Congress without President Barack Obama’s blessing has angered Democratic lawmakers,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ views of President Barack Obama have improved slightly in the past two months, and opinions are more positive about the d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market remains a frustrating place for America’s 9 million unemployed — perhaps more so as hiring has accelerated along with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights over immigration matters in the agency’s an...