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TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer will be in western New York to call on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release a long-awaited plan for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The outgoing chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is urging a series of policy and legislative changes to ensure that the U...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican state senator’s proposal to make it illegal for people to conceal their identity in public is drawing criticism from...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Jan. 2 about the death of actress Donna Douglas, The Associated Press reported erroneously that television station WAFB is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen potential Republican candidates are contemplating White House bids in 2016 in what’s shaping up as a crowded and d...

A photo of Sarah Palin’s young son standing on a dog to reach the kitchen sink is drawing sharp reaction. The image of 6-year-old Trig, presumably pre...

BOSTON (AP) — His accusers brandish a confession scribbled inside a boat during an intensive manhunt and a video they say shows him placing a backpack...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As anyone who has grown up around snow knows, part of the fun of sledding is the risk of soaring off a jump or careening aroun...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Sailor Gutzler, the 7-year-old girl who survived a plane crash, walked a mile through the cold, dark woods to safety and then he...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Political commentator and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he is ending his six-year run as a TV host on Fox News, a decision...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers closed ranks Sunday behind the No. 3 House GOP leader, Steve Scalise, as the party aimed to move past the contr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is back at the White House after spending two weeks with his family in Hawaii. Obama took an overnight flight...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of police turned their backs Sunday as Mayor Bill de Blasio eulogized an officer shot dead with his partner, repeating a sti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ approval rating hovers around 15 percent, but there’s one group of people excited about the institution: the newly elected...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — From street-artist paintings on boards protecting store windows to signs bearing the now iconic statement, "Hands Up. Don't Shoot," c...

GRAND TERRACE, Calif. (AP) — A security guard died confronting a gunman firing at a crowd outside a Southern California roller rink where about 200 pe...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As a Mexican-American woman who started her own consulting firm in Los Angeles, accountant Sonia Luna has taken advantage of prog...

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — When the movie "Urban Cowboy" made this refinery town famous in 1980, the honkytonk Gilley's was booming and wannabe cowpokes f...

SEATTLE (AP) — A year into the nation's experiment with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the f...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Mario Cuomo had a loud and liberal voice that inspired a generation of politicians to turn to public service, and a story of humbl...