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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Senate bill Wednesday aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, an election-year ritual that Democ...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the nation's comforter f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million. Those are among the findings of...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republicans kept their distance Tuesday from a Louisiana congressman who asked for forgiveness after a newspaper published a v...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston woman was convicted of murder Tuesday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, hitting ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California bill that sought to end killer whale shows at SeaWorld in San Diego and phase out their captivity was put on ho...

DETROIT (AP) — A teenager and two other men were charged Tuesday in the brutal beating of a 54-year-old suburban Detroit man after he accidentally hit...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating more than a dozen apparently random shootings targeting vehicles on Kansas City-area roa...

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — An 85-year-old woman with dementia had a male stripper gyrate in front of her against her will at her suburban New York nurs...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s talented freshmen shed a shaky regular season and then showed why the Wildcats were picked No. 1 in the preseason wit...

NEW YORK (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and union leader DeMaurice Smith met Tuesday to discuss the league’s workplace environment. In light of...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — One after another, some of the world’s best players and favorites to win the Masters trudged up the hill on the opening hole to st...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton admitted on Tuesday that he helped the FBI investigate New York Mafia figures in the 1980s, but he called it old ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities in San Francisco on Tuesday were looking for suspects who flipped four Smart cars. The small two-seat cars were flipp...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The rampage at Fort Hood that left three dead and 16 wounded last week was related to the shooter's request for leave from the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading Democrats sharply criticized a former CIA chief on Monday for suggesting that a disputed torture report produced by Sen. Dia...

BOSTON (AP) — A man who says that convicted gangster James "Whitey" Bulger helped frame him in a 1980 murder is now getting support from Bulger in his...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major new survey finds that a growing percentage of Americans gained health insurance as the initial sign-up season for President ...

BEIJING (AP) — The United States' campaign to encourage China to be more open about its military growth and intentions got a symbolic boost Monday, bu...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are n...