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NEW YORK (AP) - Already, the spread of cheap, packaged foods has been linked to rising obesity rates around the world. Yet advice to limit processed foods can seem unhelpful, given how convenient they...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks announced Friday that she won't seek reelection next year because she wants to spend more time with her family after four terms in Congres...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Navy has named the first female leader of the U.S. Naval War College after removing the college president who is under investigation. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer announc...

[vemba-video id=”politics/2019/06/14/us-images-iranian-boat-removing-mine-orig.cnn”] By Nic Robertson, CNN (CNN) –Iran would like the world to think that the attacks on two tankers o...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York lawmakers are poised Thursday to eliminate a religious exemption to vaccine requirements in the face of its worst measles outbreak in decades. The Democrat-led Senate and Assem...

WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month. President Donald Trump announced the news on Twitter Wednesday. He says Sanders...

NEW YORK - Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested Thursday and charged with forcible touching after a woman accused the actor of groping her at a New York City night spot. Gooding, 51, was charged after turnin...

The U.S. Education Department is opening investigations into foreign funding at Georgetown University and Texas A&M University as the Trump administration increases its scrutiny of international m...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's assertion that he would be open to accepting a foreign power's help in his 2020 campaign ricocheted through Washington on Thursday, with Democrats condemning it a...

The wife of indicted Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to misuse campaign funds, including for an Italy trip that cost more than $10,000.Margaret Hunter...