House Speaker John Boehner says that President Barack Obama's recent outreach to congressional Republicans is a "hopeful sign" that progress could be made in breaking the recent impasse
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A huge swarm of sharks that shut down beaches in Florida is migrating up the East Coast in a display that has spring breakers staying out of the water.
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Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed dieters in a yearlong study to drop an average of 9 pounds - four times more weight than others who were not offered d
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As someone who has spent nearly a third of her life fighting the Washington Redskins nickname, Suzan Shown Harjo had a good laugh when asked about the team's latest line of defense.
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North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanc
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A push to abolish the death penalty in Maryland cleared a key hurdle Wednesday, when the Senate approved the measure that appears to have support in the House and the backing o...
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California state wildlife officials say they will perform a necropsy on the 4-year-old African lion that attacked and killed a female volunteer intern Wednesday afternoon at a bi..
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President Obama and Republican senators had a "good exchange of ideas" Wednesday evening during their roughly two-hour-long dinner at the posh Jefferson Hotel, just blocks fro...
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At 12:39 a.m. Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul ended his filibuster blocking John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA in protest of the Obama administration's policy tha...
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