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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will press European leaders this week to keep up pressure on Russia over its threatening moves in Ukraine, wh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Details of a refashioned bill to address the problems plaguing the federally run veterans’ health care system were released Sunday b...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) — A man serving life sentences for two killings was convicted Thursday in the deaths of four others who were fatally beaten wit...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Jessica Gamboa grew up hearing you should play dead during a bear attack, and she put that knowledge to the ultimate test whe...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A treasure trove of rare gold coins that were discovered by a California couple out walking their dog last year are set to go on ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A man arrested in the killing of an Arizona police officer carefully balanced a semi-automatic rifle on the roof of his vehicle during ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters swarmed to the Central California foothills on Tuesday, attacking a blaze that had grown to cover 2 square miles in...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps’ chaplain, speaking Sunday to a congregation that has tied gold ribbons on the church’s fence in honor of fallen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting critics of his foreign policy, President Barack Obama will soon outline a strategy for his final years in office that ai...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More veterans are being allowed to obtain health care at private hospitals and clinics in an effort to improve their treatment follo...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — The son of a Hollywood director stabbed three men to death in his apartment, gunned down two women outside a sorority and random...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire burning in rugged terrain in a northern Arizona canyon grew significantly because of fires intentionally set by cre...

ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic candidates are trying to figure out whether to embrace or avoid President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — or land some...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury was asked Tuesday to reject a claim of self-defense and find a former Las Vegas Strip performer guilty of the state’s m...

OAK CREEK CANYON, Ariz. (AP) — A wind-whipped wildfire in a canyon near Flagstaff dramatically increased in size Wednesday as it sent up choking plume...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared almost a half-million acres of rugged desert terrain along the U.S.-Mexico borde...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Finance Committee voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s nomination to become the nation’s ne...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats will participate in the special, Republican-led select committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, L...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month, Pr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to head off a growing furor over veterans’ health care, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of miscon...