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Obama touts action on climate change

WASHINGTON – A year after unveiling sweeping plans to tackle climate change, President Barack Obama is highlighting efforts by his administration toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions, ev...

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Rangel barely holds off primary challenger NEW YORK – U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, the face of Harlem politics for generations, held off a strong Democratic primary challenge and mo...

Report offers dirty truth about U.S. beaches

A day at the beach can be hazardous to your health, researchers say. About 10 percent of America’s beaches failed a new federal benchmark for what constitutes safe swimming water in the past...

Justices limit cellphone searches

Unanimous ruling requires a warrant to gain access to data

Rangel holds off challenge to win primary in New York

NEW YORK – U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, the face of Harlem politics for generations, held off a strong Democratic primary challenge and moved one step closer to what he says will be his 23rd an...

Bergdahl not interviewed yet by Army investigator

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army sergeant recently released from captivity by the Taliban is in something of a legal limbo as the investigation continues into why and how he left his post in Afgha...

Judge strikes down Indiana ban on gay marriage

DENVER – A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that states must allow gay couples to marry, finding the Constitution protects same-sex relationships and putting a remarkable legal winning ...

Appeals court: States can’t ban gay marriage

DENVER – A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that states must allow gay couples to marry, finding the Constitution protects same-sex relationships and putting a remarkable legal winning ...

Justices: ‘Get a warrant’ to search cellphones

WASHINGTON – In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first get...

Asiana pilots blamed for crash

WASHINGTON – Asiana Flight 214’s pilots caused the crash last year of their airliner carrying more than 300 people by bungling a landing approach in San Francisco, including inadvertently de...

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Judge rules no-fly list is unconstitutional PORTLAND, Ore. – A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government violated the rights of 13 people on its no-fly list by depriving t...

New attack threatens truce in Ukraine

MOSCOW – The shaky cease-fire in Ukraine was thrown into peril Tuesday when pro-Moscow separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter, killing nine servicemen. Ukrainian Pr...