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Obama asks Congress for $60.4B in Sandy aid
President Barack Obama asked Congress Friday for $60.4 billion in federal aid for New York, New Jersey and other states hit by Superstorm Sandy in ...
AP NewsBreak: FBI says Alaska man killed for fun
Investigators who spent hours interviewing an Alaska serial killer say he may have murdered close to a dozen people, and that he killed for pleasure ...
Boehner: No progress in fiscal cliff talks
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday there has been no progress in negotiations to avert a "fiscal cliff" combination of automatic tax increases and ...
Shadowy donor behind record 'super' PAC checks
A lawyer in Tennessee who is mysteriously linked to millions of dollars in campaign contributions steered to congressional candidates doubled his ...
Clinton: Northern Ireland peace requires vigilance
Extremists still scheming to spoil Northern Ireland's fragile peace can be beaten through a commitment to political sacrifice, compromise and ...
Fiscal cliff ads pick up where campaign stopped
Debate over the "fiscal cliff" has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall election campaign ...
With election over, less attention to jobs report
Reaction to the monthly jobs numbers isn't what it used to be. The first unemployment report since President Barack Obama's re-election barely got a ...
Report on Libya attack imminent
Sen. John Kerry says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about an ...
Corporate money to help pay for Obama inauguration
In a reversal from four years ago, President Barack Obama will accept unlimited sums of money from corporations and individuals to pay for events ...
GOP Senate group aided Akin despite disavowal
Despite publicly disavowing candidate Todd Akin after his "legitimate rape" remark, the National Republican Senatorial Committee quietly sent $760,000 ...
US works with Russia on Syria, but wants Assad out
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that the United States and Russia are committed to trying again to get President Bashar Assad's ...
Election hits $2B mark amid last-minute donations
Remarkable for its last-minute surge of contributions, the U.S. presidential election witnessed unprecedented sums of cash boosting two men in their ...
Analysis: DeMint move defies GOP shift to center
The surprise job change by the Senate's most prominent tea partyer will complicate Republican moderates' bid to nudge their party toward the center ...
AP-GfK Poll: Obama approval rises postelection
A month after the bitterly fought election, President Barack Obama has his highest approval ratings since the killing of Osama bin Laden, according ...
$2 billion price tag for presidential election
The 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion milestone in its final weeks, becoming the most expensive in American political history, according ...
Man pleads guilty in Seattle terror plot
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting an attack on a Seattle military complex with machine guns and grenades. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, 35, agreed ...
Judge may trim Apple's $1 billion patent verdict
A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to trim millions from a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics this summer as ...
Michigan GOP approves right to work amid protests
Republicans slammed right-to-work legislation through the Michigan House and Senate Thursday, drawing raucous protests from throngs of stunned union ...
NYC settles suit by abused foster kids for $9.7M
New York City will pay $9.7 million to settle a lawsuit by 10 disabled people who were fraudulently adopted by a woman and claimed they were ...
Marine brig officials grilled about GI's jailing
A former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a ...
Gypsies take curious route through US to asylum
A minivan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a ...
Correction: Bloomberg-Clinton-Mayoral Race story
In a story Dec. 5 about next year's New York City mayoral race, The Associated Press reported erroneously that former Bronx Borough President Adolfo ...
Debt limit gives GOP leverage, Obama demands fix
The political fight that took the nation to the verge of defaulting on its debts last year is back, overshadowed by "fiscal cliff" disputes but with ...
Egypt crisis tests opposition ahead of key votes
Egypt's latest political crisis over a disputed constitution is posing a difficult test for the mostly secular opposition: Can it maintain its ...