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WASHINGTON (AP) — The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing ...

OLDSMAR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is charged with first-degree murder after his mother was found decapitated outside their home on New Year’s Eve. Ac...

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — A police chief told a 911 operator that he accidentally shot his wife early New Year’s Day inside their suburban home south...

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tripp Foy's sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way of selling tobacco, as...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders have been supportive of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise since the revelation that he appeared before a white s...

HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) — A 29-year-old woman described as a loving mother was fatally shot by her 2-year-old son at a northern Idaho Wal-Mart in what auth...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — New state laws taking effect Thursday give livestock in California more living room, approve direct-to-consumer wine shipments i...

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — A North Texas woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison after earlier testifying that she h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a revelation that could put a crimp in Republican efforts to reach out to minorities in 2016, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise h...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A pilot is dead after crashing a small plane just feet away from a home south of Denver. The twin-engine Cessna 404 came down...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush deaths. But gun-rela...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that N.Y. Rep. Michael Grimm made the right decision by resigning from Congress after pleadi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man fired a rifle at two Los Angeles officers in a patrol car, but no one was injured in the attack that comes amid tension natio...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the RV Park he owns in a remote corner of southwestern Kansas, Jan Leonard is seeing the benefits of one of the federal governmen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Being uninsured in America will cost you more in 2015. It's the first year all taxpayers have to report to the Internal Revenue Serv...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting some boos at a police graduation ceremony that comes with tensions high between him and ...

The killings of two unarmed blacks by white police officers in Missouri and New York this summer touched off protests and a national debate over polic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is on the verge of proposing long-awaited rules for commercial drone operations in U.S. skies, but key deci...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a joke. “Are you still president?” comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month. But the que...

NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Woods shook uncontrollably, his body wracked by convulsions, as fellow inmates held him in their arms and shouted for help. Ami...