WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the State Department to release the e-mails she wrote from a private e-mail account as secretary of state, weighing in on a con...
No end in sight to party discord
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner’s job is safe despite passing yet another big bill that most of his Republican colleagues oppose,...
Obamacare faces another big challenge
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a major test of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul that threatens insur...
Now you can enjoy your third daily cup of coffee and feel healthy while you do it: According to a new study, that third cup of joe may be good for your heart.
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WASHINGTON — Former congressman Gabrielle Giffords is returning to Capitol Hill today to help kick-start a long-shot campaign to expand criminal background checks to all...
BOSTON — Two dramatically different portraits of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are expected to emerge when prosecutors and Tsarnaev’s lawyers give th...
U.S. helped by low gas prices
WASHINGTON — From the United States to Asia to Europe, a global economy that many had feared was faltering appears poised for a resurgence o...
NEW YORK — The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.
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Ferguson police unfairly targeted blacks
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department report says blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, are disproportionately subject to excessive police fo...
LOS ANGELES — Maxee Maxwell, a member of the 1990s girl group Brownstone — best known for the hit “If You Love Me” — has died after cutting herself in a fall at home, a ...
