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WASHINGTON -- The House has approved a bill intended to avoid a shutdown of federal highway and aviation programs, but it may encounter...
Ron Autry, a Madera police sergeant, is caught in a prescription-drug shortage nightmare. Autry, 52, was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer at the end of July after a routine colonoscopy found the disease....
Washington — Continued high unemployment drove the number of Americans living in poverty to a 52-year high in 2010 and pushed the nation’s median household income down for the third straight year since the Great Recession first cast its ominous cloud over the...
AUGUSTA, Maine -- A Maine lawmaker barred from the State House after he was charged with pulling a loaded gun on a stranger in a...
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the government will be rolling out a different airport pat-down policy...
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans say a 105-year-old law that allows the president to designate national monuments on public...
WASHINGTON -- A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a freeze in defense spending at $513 billion for the next military budget, including a $1.6 billion cut in funds that the Pentagon says it doesn't need for Afghanistan security forces even as the U.S. embassy in Kabul came under attack. By voice vote,...
WASHINGTON -- The CIA said Tuesday it is investigating whether the agency broke the law by helping the New York Police Department build intelligence-gathering programs that monitored life in Muslim communities. The CIA's new director, David Petraeus, told Congress on Tuesday that the agency's...
