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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — New FBI statistics show the vast Navajo Nation saw a sharp increase in the murder rate in 2013 and finished the year with 42 h...

PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder in the killing of her six babies over a decade, but she cann...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its European allies hit more than two dozen Russian government officials, executives and companies with sancti...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a former Marine and FBI agent who's been the target a campaign-finance investigation, was instead charged on ...

SHEDDER REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia (AP) — The Somali woman lives in a stick hut covered by ragged blankets in this dusty refugee camp. It was here that he...

CHICAGO (AP) — Raising U.S. educational expectations through national goals was a priority for Republican President George W. Bush. But many of his wo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not even Supreme Court justices can resist a good fish story. The court said Monday it will hear the case of a Florida fisherman who...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The push by President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage seems ready to join the parade of issues t...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Crews were searching the northern part of San Francisco Bay for a pilot after two small planes collided while heading home fro...

VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — Three years after a tornado devastated the Little Rock suburb of Vilonia, its residents found themselves huddling in the dark ear...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device...

DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP) — The feisty personalities and anti-establishment fervor that fed tea party challenges in recent Republican U.S. Senate primaries ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress gets back to work Monday after a two-week vacation, and it's looking like lawmakers will do what they do best: the bare min...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say a tornado has killed two people in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Quapaw. Ottawa County sheriff's dispat...

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A terminally ill woman with inoperable pancreatic cancer was able to see her 17-year-old daughter graduate from high school during...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines have reached a 10-year pact that would allow a larger U.S. military presence in this ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Opening the first visit to Malaysia by a U.S. president in nearly half a century, Barack Obama looked ahead Saturday to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jerry Starr thought he was taking the safe approach when a twister was reported heading toward his suburban neighborhood outside ...

BUNKERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — For a while, in certain quarters, Cliven Bundy was celebrated as a throwback to the Old West — a weathered, plainspoken ranch...