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Hurricane Rachel strengthens to a Category 3 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast
Seahawks fans pull out their wallets for Super Bowl tickets
Republican roundup
'This is our top priority'
Welcome relief in the heartland
Woman who tried to help terrorists gets prison term
DENVER - A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants was sentenced to four years in prison Friday, even as she tearfully told a judge that she never wanted to hurt a…
Privacy concerns over health care website prompt reversal
WASHINGTON - Bowing to privacy concerns, the Obama administration reversed itself Friday, scaling back the release of consumers' personal information from the government's health insurance website to private compan…
MasterCard to lift credit card swipe hold in Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) - MasterCard on Friday became the first major credit card company to say it will start handling U.S. card transactions in Cuba.
Garden gnome fans fret
NEW YORK - Apparently, airline passengers aren't buying enough garden gnomes, superhero pajamas and heated cat shelters. SkyMall has filed for bankruptcy.
Supreme Court to hear inmates' appeal
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is stepping into the issue of lethal injection executions for the first time since 2008 in an appeal filed by death row inmates in Oklahoma.
Obama heading to India
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama arrives in India this weekend anxious to take another step in moving the world's two largest democracies beyond the deep te…
1st significant winter storm heads toward Northeast corridor
HARTFORD, Conn. - A fast-moving coastal storm is forecast to blast several major cities in the Northeast with a mix of snow, sleet and rain today in the season's first real taste of winter along the busy Interstate…
Surprise! Magnets make you a drug smuggler
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Drug smugglers are turning "trusted travelers" into unwitting mules by placing containers with powerful magnets under their cars in Mexico and…
'Didn't fit the profile'
Some McDonald's workers who say they were fired because of their race are suing the fast-food giant, accusing it of dodging responsibility for the discrimination and harassment they say they endured.
Got battery?
NEW YORK - At a cozy watering hole in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, bartender Kathy Conway counted four different phone chargers behind the bar. …
Under pressure to govern, divisions emerge in GOP
WASHINGTON - In a House Republican majority often driven by the most conservative lawmakers, the pragmatists are suddenly demanding to be heard.