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Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
WASHINGTON (AP) - Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.
Obama to Congress: Work together to aid jobless
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. - President Barack Obama says members of Congress should put country before politics, set aside their differences and find ways to get pe…
Small plane crashes at K.C. air show, pilot killed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A stunt pilot was killed in fiery crash during a Kansas City air show on Saturday after his plane appeared unable to pull out of a downward spiral and nosedived into an airfield, witnesses a…
Inspectors arrest 15 in prescription drug case
SAN DIEGO - U.S. border inspectors are not only seizing drugs coming into the country from Mexico - they're making arrests for drug smuggling that's going the …
Ex-death row inmate enjoys first night of freedom
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Most prison inmates count down the weeks or months to freedom.
Strauss-Kahn accuser to meet prosecutors
NEW YORK (AP) - The lawyer for the woman who accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said Saturday that he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges.
Months later, Giffords now knows who gunman killed
PHOENIX - For months after the spasm of violence that shattered her world, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shielded from the wider scope of that January morning, when a gunman shot her in the head, bad…
A new fountain of youth?
NEW YORK - Baby boomers heading into what used to be called retirement age are providing a 70 million-member strong market for legions of companies, entreprene…
3 dead, 1 missing in Pittsburgh flash flooding
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A pair of storms that pounded Pittsburgh on Friday cut electricity to hospitals and universities and submerged more than a dozen vehicles in …
US fines WSU for campus safety
SEATTLE - Federal education officials have fined Washington State University $82,500 for violations in 2007 of a campus crime reporting law, including not properly reporting two sexual assaults, the university said…
Obama takes bully pulpit on road
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - It's the biggest bullhorn in the political world.
Bachmann, Perry talk jobs
WATERLOO, Iowa - The two fastest-rising stars in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination worked to broaden their appeal Sunday in Iowa.
Sept. 11 changed air travel greatly
Five-year-old Frank Allocco is 37,000 feet above America, face pressed against the window.
Obama sets sights on rural America to talk jobs
WASHINGTON - Trading Washington's hot house for states critical to his re-election prospects, President Barack Obama is headed to the Midwest after a summer of…
Could it happen here?
A black man killed by police. Mobs of looters. Cities charred and shaken. The riots in London mirror some of the worst uprisings in modern U.S. history.