Pension costs worry mayor
NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leaving the nation’s biggest mayoral job with a glowing view of cities’ future but a stern warnin...
Citizenship is secondary
WASHINGTON — With immigration legislation stalled in Congress, Hispanics and Asian-Americans say getting relief from deportations is more importa...
Advisory group releases report
WASHINGTON — If President Barack Obama follows even half of the recommendations urged by his advisory panel, the National Security Agency w...
But experts argue advice
CHICAGO — Many older adults with high blood pressure can be treated less aggressively, which could mean taking fewer pills to get it under contro...
But fewer consider marijuana dangerous
WASHINGTON — Fewer teens are trying fake marijuana known by such names as K2 and Spice, according to the government’s annual survey...
Lab leaps in front of train after blind man passes out
NEW YORK — Gallant guide dog Orlando was just doing his duty.
The black Lab bravely leaped onto the tracks at a Man...
Winning tickets sold in Calif., Ga.
DES MOINES, Iowa — The two winning Mega Millions tickets were sold in California and Georgia, lottery officials said today.
The $636 m...
Crucial vote clears Senate
WASHINGTON — A modest, bipartisan budget pact designed to keep Washington from lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis and ease the harshe...
DALLAS — Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent fo...
NEW YORK — A cat-and-mouse game played out in a Chinese village some 5,300 years ago is helping scientists understand how wild felines transformed into the tame pets we ...
