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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress and President Barack Obama are on a fast track toward confrontation over sanctions on Iran. A bipartisan group of senators ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The violent push Tuesday by Houthi rebels against the American-backed government in Yemen is undermining military and intelligence o...

HAVANA (AP) — American and Cuban officials are exploring this week how quickly they can reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, the first step towa...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The first time James Holmes appeared in court, he wore chains and an orange jail jumpsuit and looked dazed, with his hair dye...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to double down on the assertion there are neighborhoods in Western nations where Islamic tradition...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Democrat Tom Wolf took office Tuesday as Pennsylvania’s 47th chief executive, portraying himself as a political outsider and appeali...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheap oil doesn't only mean cheaper gas in the tank. Plummeting oil prices are also reverberating through the budgets of businesses,...

CHICAGO (AP) — As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwe...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that communities around the country need to work to bridge the separation between police ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The drama surrounding two teenage sweethearts on the run from the law ended quietly and unceremoniously in a Florida beach to...

DENVER (AP) — One of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history will be replayed in a Colorado courtroom — but only after an unprecedented jury pool...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The focus of the Boston Marathon bombing trial figures to be as much on what punishment Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face as on his respo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican critic of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is pushing new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear progra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Sunday that multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Bi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain is waging another national campaign — this time, to define his legacy. After two unsuccessful presidential bids, th...

MELBOURNE, Florida (AP) — A shopping mall in central Florida reopened Sunday, a day after a shooting in its food court that left two people dead, incl...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — As a young man going through college on an ROTC scholarship, George Brauchler imagined he’d become Gen. George S. Patton, bar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — MTV is taking the color out of its programming on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to encourage people to talk about what race means in th...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland strip club that gained national attention for its vegan menu has been accused of withholding more than meat. Two form...