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WASHINGTON - The U.S. edged closer to crisis Friday with NATO ally Turkey, which began receiving components of a Russian-made air defense system in defiance of Trump administration warnings that the d...

WASHINGTON - The House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a bill ensuring that a victims compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.The 402-12 vote sends the bill to the Senate,...

CHICAGO - R. Kelly was arrested on federal charges that accuse him and members of his entourage of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with the singer and paying them to co...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting support from an unlikely source - the president - in her fight with freshmen Democrats.Republican Donald Trump is defending top Democrat Pelosi and s...

NEW ORLEANS - Building toward hurricane strength, Tropical Storm Barry began hitting Louisiana with wind and rain Friday as it closed in what could be a long, slow - and epic - drenching that could tr...

WASHINGTON - Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is resigning following criticism of his handling of a plea deal with a wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of und...

WASHINGTON (AP) -President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Instead, Trump says he's ordering every federal department and agency to provide ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google said its contractors are able to listen to recordings of what people say to its artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant. The company acknowledged that humans ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Elizabeth Warren released a far-reaching immigration agenda on Thursday that envisions a significant leftward shift in U.S. policy, including the remodeling of immigration enforcemen...

Former Tennessee Titans All-Pro defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth says on social media that he needs a kidney transplant. The 38-year-old Haynesworth posted on Instagram that he's been battling kid...