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

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to gas d...

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina prison inmate used a smuggled mobile phone to keep in touch with kidnappers holding the father of a prosecut...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who authorities say drove an SUV that crashed into another vehicle, sending it spinning into a daycare center where a girl ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The prosecutor cross-examining Oscar Pistorius at his murder trial Friday tried to shred his version of events on the ni...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after hailing the Civil Rights Act as a lasting legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, President Barack Obama is using anot...

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) — Authorities are confident that signals detected deep in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian jet's black boxes, Aus...

ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — A FedEx tractor-trailer crossed over a grassy median on a Northern California freeway and slammed into a bus carrying 44 high sc...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman was taken into federal custody Thursday after throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton as the former secretary of state bega...

ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — Nine people were killed Thursday and dozens injured in a fiery crash between a FedEx delivery truck and a charter bus carrying h...

NEW YORK (AP) — The high-flyers are laying the stock market low — once again. Investors turned against biotech, Internet and other once-soaring stocks...

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister said Friday that authorities are confident that a series of underwater signals detected in a remote...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning as the White House seeks to move past the election-year...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The chief prosecutor laughed scornfully at an answer from Oscar Pistorius during the Olympic athlete's murder trial Thur...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan is sticking with controversial new Common Core curriculum standards and standing by New York State's e...

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — Authorities are casting a wide net in the search for the man they say drove the vehicle at the center of a day care car crash...