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NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil has been working for years on a fleet of enormous new oil and gas projects in places such as Abu Dhabi, Russia, Papua New ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The struggling Pittsburgh Penguins could have given up against the New Jersey Devils. They trailed by a goal in the third period, ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a marijuana charge against New England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount that stemmed from an August ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain kicked protesters out of a committee hearing Thursday, calling them “low-life s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flexing its financial might, the political machine backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch on Monday told its allies that spen...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — They were supposed to be saviors of downtown, drawing people by offering parking as plentiful as at any suburban shopping mall...

BOSTON (AP) — The monster storm in Boston has brought with it another monster — a yeti. The white, furry phantom has been getting laughs by walking th...

GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) — A girl found shot to death in a western New York cornfield 35 years ago has been identified as a missing Florida teenager. DNA fr...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking details of a covert mission to derail Iran’s nuclear program in a case tha...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday requested a pretrial conference to discuss handling classified information in their case against an Oh...

NEW YORK (AP) — A top New York Police Department official who once worked as a television news correspondent took the witness stand Monday at the tria...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-foot-long drone apparently flown by a hobbyist crashed on the White House grounds Monday in an extraordinary, if unintended, b...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Sentencing is set for three of four upstate men involved in the murder of a western New York couple two years ago. Joshua McCorm...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Officials in Buffalo have shut down a bar after a man was shot and wounded following a fight, making it the third nightspot in th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare will change the way it pays hospitals and doctors to reward quality over volume, the Obama administration said Monday, in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it is creating a single regional framework that divides the sprawling agency into five c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This should be a golden era for tea party conservatives, whose energies helped Republicans gain a historic House majority and take c...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted al-Qaida in Yemen on Monday, signaling Washington’s determination to keep fighting the militants desp...

NEW YORK (AP) — While Joan Rivers lay sedated in a Manhattan clinic, her doctors performed unauthorized medical procedures, snapped a selfie with the ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — One prospective juror said she had a panic attack. Another claimed to have a bad back. A third is in the military and worried...