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Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strike the US Gulf Coast as a hurricane
Consumer agency sets mortgage protections
Texas picks tea party darling
AUSTIN, Texas - Tea party darling Ted Cruz convincingly defeated the Republican establishment favorite, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in Texas' runoff election Tues…
Romantic crooner Tony Martin dies at 98
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tony Martin, the romantic singer who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and sustained a career in records, television an…
Landing is key for NASA Mars rover
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - It's NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet - and it begins with the red planet arrival late Sunday of the smartest inter…
Shaken and stirred
Tales from the runway
Dead cattle, devastation in wake of Western fires
White House makes clear: No push for new gun laws
LA officials vote to ban marijuana shops
LOS ANGELES - Unable to rein in hundreds of medical pot shops that blossomed around the nation's second-biggest metropolis, the Los Angeles City Council banned…
Sheriff Joe takes the stand in trial
PHOENIX (AP) - There were no TV cameras, no scrum of reporters, no protesters - and there was no swagger inside the courtroom when the typically brash Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio took the stand to face critics who s…
Meet the newest 'Idol' judge
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Mariah Carey will join "American Idol" as a judge next season, Fox announced Monday, bringing her star power to the show that remains a…
Sally Ride, 1951-2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail into orbit for U.S. women. With a pitch perfect name out of …
Foundation changes name of award amid wolf spat
The ever-expanding 'middle class'
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a recent speech, President Barack Obama referred to the "middle class" 14 times, defining it as a family that makes up to $250,000 a year.…
Feds, Kalispel Tribe sign deal to help Idaho trout
SPOKANE (AP) - Three federal agencies and the Kalispel Tribe have reached an agreement to spend $39.5 million over the next decade to improve stocks of native bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout in northern Id…