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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law is off to a stronger start this year. But it’s not perfect, and American...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unhappy Republicans say Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has given President Barack Obama a present this holiday season — a gift certificate g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the lessons of the financial crisis may already be fading from collective memory. J...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hotter days mean less cold cash for Americans, according to a new study matching 40 years of temperatures to economics. Days that av...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The families of nine people killed in the Newtown school massacre filed a lawsuit against the maker and sellers of the Bushmast...

NEW YORK (AP) — A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail agains...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As he signals strong interest in a 2016 presidential campaign, Republican Jeb Bush on Monday encouraged college graduates to “sh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — During the depths of the economic crises that consumed his first term, President Barack Obama helped pluck a Harvard professor named...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the CIA sought permission to use harsh interrogation methods on a captured al-Qaida operative, the response from Bush administr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Congregants in African-American churches across the country wore black to Sunday services and prayed over the men in attendance in a s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Optimists might think twice before seeing Congress’ bipartisan agreement to keep the government running another year as a road map f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Social Security Administration has run into more trouble after Senate Democrats canceled a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s push to cover America’s uninsured faces another big test Monday. This time, it’s not only how the website f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One colleague called the tactics of tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz on the $1.1 trillion spending bill a painful echo of last year’s ...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The mother of a first-grader killed in the Newtown school shooting rampage spoke out against gun violence Sunday on the second a...

School kids, truckers, marijuana smokers and fans of old-fashioned light bulbs are among the millions of people who had something extra riding on the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush’s big donors and allies are tantalized by his promise to decide “in short order” whether to run for president. But su...

NEW YORK (AP) — You'd better watch out. You'd better not fight. Better not be a lout. And SantaCon's telling you why. The annual holiday flash-mob-mee...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The economic recovery has not been equal among the races, according to a Pew Research Center study released Friday. The study fo...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A suspected gang member opened fire on a group outside an alternative high school Friday, sending three young people to the hosp...