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The White House is reviewing a decades-old federal coal-leasing program. The outcome could help taxpayers but cost coal miners.

Republican lawmakers narrowly defeated legislation to protect the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees of government contractors.

Eighty percent of GOP voters want party leaders to stop whining and support him, according to new poll.

Thursday's verdict was a defeat for more than two dozen surviving victims of the 2012 Aurora massacre and relatives of 12 people who were killed.

The PGA star has agreed to repay more than $1 million in the case, while the ex-chairman of Dean Foods faces criminal charges.

Toney Chaplin was named acting chief after Chief Greg Suhr resigned following officers' fatal shooting of a black woman.

The woman drove off in a stolen car after refusing to comply with police orders, and died in a hospital after being shot, police said.

Meredith Vieira told graduates to be the left shark from Katy Perry’s Super Bowl show.

The presumptive Republican nominee is helping out his former rival pay off his campaign debts with an unusual event.

The nominations of Democrat Lisa Fairfax and Republican Hester Peirce will now go to the full Senate for a vote.

The bill, which the state Senate passed Thursday, would make abortion procedures a felony. Republican Gov. Mary Fallin is said to be anti-abortion.

Military personnel who have been sexually assaulted are often discharged after reporting their attack, which ends their military career and affects the rest of their lives.

The third largest church in the U.S. is growing overseas, especially in Africa and Asia, where more conservative views on sexuality predominate.

Attorneys for Cinemark USA Inc. told jurors that liability for the carnage rested mainly with the convicted gunman, James Holmes, and not theater owners.

The White House has threatened to veto the House bill, having requested $1.9 billion.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has put his faith in a D.C. insider who helped John McCain in his failed 2008 campaign.

Mark Zuckerberg met Wednesday with prominent conservatives after a tech blog accused the social network's Trending Topics of favoring liberal posts.

Efforts against campaigns are considered so serious that some congressional panels have been briefed on the activity, a source said.

The news suggests that some 25,000 victims of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme may soon recoup at least some of their losses.

The city has agreed to pay a total of $3.2 million to the families of Ryan Rogers and Emmanuel Lopez.

Five of the Republican's 11 prospective Supreme Court nominees match a group suggested by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

But U.S. insistence on renegotiation could unravel the 195-nation Paris Agreement compromise to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Hundreds of bogus bids were whittled down to seven real offers before the winning bidder emerged Wednesday in George Zimmerman's auction.

Here are some ways you can donate funds, goods and time to help those affected by the floods in Sri Lanka.

The Republican candidate's daughter disputes press reports of sexual misconduct, saying "it's not who he is."

The agency has repeatedly been accused of improper gunplay, racial profiling, excessive roughness and verbal abuse.

Find out which products may have been affected by listeria and how to get a refund.

A 26-second clip posted to YouTube Monday shows students singing along to the A$AP Ferg song “Dump Dump.­”

The Vermont senator hopes to chip away at Hillary Clinton's lead, but winning the remaining states won't be an easy feat.