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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will move the United States a step closer to ending the war in Afghanistan when he announces plans Wednesday ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Amped-up rhetoric aside and with seemingly little regard for the national microscope being trained on them, lawmakers in New York ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's polarizing union rights law is set to take effect on June 29 after the state Supreme Court determined that a judge ov...

NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) — A fire at a southern Louisiana plant where chemicals are blended and stored for oilfield operations was being allowed to burn i...

ALBANY (AP) — The effort to legalize gay marriage in New York is getting an all-out lobbying effort from Democrats and celebrities, but there's still ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown's administration says his stalled plan to shift thousands of inmates from state prisons to local jails will...

ATLANTA (AP) — More Americans got food poisoning last year, with salmonella cases driving the increase, the government reported Tuesday. Illness rates...