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Social Security closings creating benefits delays

WASHINGTON – Budget cuts have forced the Social Security Administration to close dozens of field offices even as millions of baby boomers approach retirement, swamping the agency with applic...

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VA chief raises estimate of waiting veterans WASHINGTON – About 10 percent of veterans seeking medical care at VA hospitals and clinics have to wait at least 30 days for an appoi...

Florida man becomes third executed in U.S. in 24 hours

STARKE, Fla. – Florida has executed a man who fatally stabbed his wife and her young son in 1985. It is the third U.S. execution in less than 24 hours since a botched April lethal...

President Obama created in 3-D

WASHINGTON – A team at the Smithsonian Institution has scanned President Barack Obama to create the first 3-D portrait of a sitting president. Digital imaging specialists recentl...

2014 health-insurance premiums reasonable

2015 looks promising with more insurers

Backing Iraq war haunts many early supporters

WASHINGTON – The prospect of the U.S. military returning to the fight in Iraq has turned congressional hawks into doves. Lawmakers who eagerly voted to authorize military force 1...

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Texas governor may be thinking of California AUSTIN, Texas – Could Texas Gov. Rick Perry be California dreamin’? The Republican has made persuading top employers around...

Contributions from wealthy are on rise

NEW YORK – Wealthy donors are lavishing money on their favored charities, including universities, hospitals and arts institutions, while giving is flat to social service and church groups mo...

Millennials stepping up shift to walkable cities

Urban hipsters, you may not know it yet, but you’re living in a WalkUP. Your apartment building may have an elevator, but chances are good that if you’re a Millennial in a major U...

Lawmakers say more IRS emails missing

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has lost more emails connected to the tea party investigation, congressional investigators said Tuesday. The IRS said last Friday it had ...

Fight for gay rights not over yet, president says

NEW YORK – To a raucous embrace, President Barack Obama told gay donors Tuesday that American society and its laws have advanced the cause of gay rights over the past 10 years but said the j...

Somali extremists attack village

NAIROBI, Kenya – The killers in the Kenyan village singled out non-Muslims, shooting them point-blank or slitting their throats, just like the previous night in an adjacent hamlet. A Somali ...