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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Is RG4 on the way? Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III took to Twitter to let the world know he and his wife are expecting a child. On Thursday, Griffin's...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One person was killed and another wounded in a New Orleans shooting along a Mardi Gras parade route in uptown, police said. Police spokesman Frank Robertson said there was an ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is showing no sign of walking away from a decades-long political career, even though he's been abandoned by most of his party's leadership...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Somebody who stopped by a Shell station in southern Puerto Rico was potentially $100 million richer on Thursday, winning a share of a $564.1 million Powerball jackpo...

Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but they continue to struggle to come together to pass legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The agency is at risk of shutting down wh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's senior counterterrorism official acknowledged Thursday that U.S. intelligence was surprised by the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Yem...

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas Ranger testifying Thursday at the murder trial of a former Marine charged with killing famed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend said the two victims were arme...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged his cardinals Thursday to cooperate in reforming the outdated and dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy, saying the overhaul will help him govern the Catholic ...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Guns would fall silent, heavy weapons would pull back from the front and Ukraine would trade broad autonomy for the east to get back control of its Russian border by the en...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Congress cleared a bill Wednesday to construct the Keystone XL oil pipeline, setting up a confrontation with President Barack Obama, who has threatene...