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NEW YORK (AP) — Rushing to meet a deadline proved to be the downfall of Dan Rather and his CBS News team when their story questioning former President...

LONDON (AP) — Britain will be China's "partner of choice" in the West, Prime Minister David Cameron declared Wednesday, as China demonstrated its comm...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska suicide-prevention activist is hoping a man's very public suicide at an Alaska Native conference will propel people...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. expects Iran will take months to live up to its end of a seven-nation nuclear pact that could eventually provide the countr...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The ubiquitous handicapped symbol that marks parking spaces, building entrances and restrooms around the world is getting an up...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on protests by the Baltimore Uprising coalition, which occupied City Council chambers at Baltimore City Hall to protest a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines have ramped up an aggressive lobbying campaign that seeks nothing less than converting the government from industry re...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders clashed over U.S. involvement in the Middle East, gun control and economic policy in t...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday banned a protest rally and march by trade union and civic society activists who lost friends and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian jets intensified their airstrikes Monday in central Syria as government forces battle insurgents in a strategic area ne...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish and Muslim grassroots groups, self-declared defenders of their faiths, have played a key role in rising Israeli-Palestinian te...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Gun-rights activists and others gave voice to strong emotions on Friday when President Barack Obama came to meet privately with ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week has thrust the debate over the nation's gun laws to the center of the presid...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of the Oregon gunman who killed nine in a college classroom apparently wrote about her love of guns in an online foru...

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Facebook and thousands of other companies could find it vastly more complicated to do business in Europe after a court ruled that pe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is starting a new term that promises a steady stream of divisive social issues, and also brighter prospects for co...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of in...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Armed with multiple guns, a 26-year-old man walked into a morning writing class at a community college in this rural Oregon town...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — This small town in southern Oregon's timber country strongly supports gun rights, and that hasn't changed for the county's top l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A grim President Barack Obama says the U.S. has "become numb" to mass shootings like Thursday's incident in Oregon, where 20-year-ol...