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BRUSSELS (AP) — President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron laid down new markers for Russia Thursday, giving Moscow a month to me...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but claims for jobless aid continue to be anchored near seven-year l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal board investigation into the 2010 BP oil spill concludes that a last-ditch safety device on the underwater well had multip...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives said it plans to release 2,000 pages of documents from former President Bill Clinton’s administration on Frida...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has told senators it didn’t notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New management, same problems. Sylvia Mathews Burwell was confirmed Thursday as the nation’s new health secretary, but she’ll have t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior senators reached agreement Thursday on the framework for a bipartisan bill expanding veterans’ ability to get health care out...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is the fourth sitting president to attend a D-Day anniversary observance in Normandy and the only president t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, sett...

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — It’s too dangerous right now to search for the bodies of six climbers who likely plummeted to their deaths w...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are searching for a pair of burglars they say broke into Miley Cyrus’ San Fernando Valley home and got away with...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo beat back a challenge from the left Saturday, narrowly winning the nomination of the Working...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Strange, unsavory twists in Mississippi’s Senate Republican race are grabbing the most attention of Tuesday’s primary elections in e...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzz...

BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (AP) — Michelle Lesco is petite, but the 115-pound competitive eater still managed to gobble down more than 28 hot dogs — and buns ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota company that discovered an antibody technology while trying to cure flocks of dying geese is using its researc...

CHICAGO (AP) — A cheap, decades-old chemotherapy drug extended life by more than a year when added to standard hormone therapy for men whose prostate ...

A strike at downtown Las Vegas casinos was averted as union negotiators reached settlements with several properties only hours before workers were sch...

ISLAMORADA, Fla. (AP) — Like viewers worldwide, Fabien Cousteau was entranced by his famous grandfather’s films about marine life and human exploratio...

MIAMI (AP) — President Obama has edged closer to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by swapping five Taliban members for a captured American soldier, b...