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Frigid air is blowing across the United States, dropping temperatures in many areas into the single digits and leading weather monitors to issue wind chill advisories and politicians to plead with res...

TORONTO (AP) - A scandal-plagued Bill Cosby returns to the stage Wednesday night for the first time since November and his reception is certain to be mixed, with some planning protests, others vowing ...

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle on Wednesday spotted the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board, an important...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman accused of splattering green paint at the Washington National Cathedral and suspected of committing similar vandalism at sites including the Lincoln Memorial in 2013 wi...

BOSTON (AP) — To try to save him from the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers will probably look for jurors who are intellectually curious and eager to...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once on the short list to be Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has re-elected John Boehner to be speaker in the new Republican-led Congress, despite opposition by tea party lawmakers that underscored party divisions. The Ohio Rep...

Tuesday morning brought the region's first snow storm, with the National Weather Service issuing a winter storm warning for parts of Virginia and Maryland. The Associated Press rounded up the res...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans assumed full control of Congress on Tuesday for the first time in eight years in a day of pomp, circumstance and raw politics beneath the Capitol Dome. "We wil...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once a top Republican prospect for national office, faced sentencing Tuesday for selling the influence of his office to the CEO of a diet...