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WASHINGTON (AP) — The calendar shows April 15, and you haven't even started on your federal tax return? Chances are, you don't need to fret. If you're...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge selected a second grand jury Monday in an investigation into whether Gov. Rick Perry abused his power by vetoing fu...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station cargo ship will remain Earthbound for a while longer. With just over an hour remaining, the Space X compan...

LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — After a bear mauled a woman in the driveway of her suburban Florida home, dragging her four feet before she escaped, wildlife o...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson quarterback Chad Kelly was dismissed from the team Monday, two days after he was benched for the second half of the spri...

Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement, the first step toward possibly swimming at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The 22-time Olympic medalist will compet...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post and The Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for revealing the U.S. government's sweeping surv...

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Police in Utah are questioning a mother and family members about the killings of seven babies whose bodies were found stuf...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas C...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Attorney James Connell has visited his client inside the secret Guantanamo prison complex known as Camp 7 only ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is pressing ahead with Monday's planned launch of a supply ship despite a critical computer outage at the Internation...

RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators said Sunday that they haven't found physical evidence confirming a witness' claim that a FedEx truck wa...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A man in his 70s opened fire Sunday outside of a Jewish community center and nearby retirement community, killing three peo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abruptly on the spot as the new face of "Obamacare," Sylvia Mathews Burwell faces steep challenges, both logistical and political. B...

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — When a BP oil well began gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, fisherman George Barisich used his boat to help c...

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Every day from the Perth airport and a nearby military base, about a dozen planes from several countries take flight to search...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare diplomatic rebuke, the United States will not grant a visa to Tehran's controversial pick for envoy to the United Nations,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a regulatory safety finding against SeaWorld in the drowning of a trainer who was pulled un...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to hydraulic f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama praised outgoing Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for helping to steer his health care law's come...