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With his allegations that Planned Parenthood has misused federal funds, U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., is taking out his frustration by lobbing malicious, unsubstantiated allegations, just like an elementary school bully who's angry that he lost a game.

Governors along the U.S.-Mexico border agreed on Thursday to examine how to create shared databases where they can swap DNA and other biometric information on criminals in an effort to curb the flow of guns and drugs between the two countries.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn's decision to uphold key provisions of Alabama's controversial new immigration law -- characterized by supporters and detractors alike as the toughest in the country -- could have repercussions that reverberate far beyond the Yellowhammer State.

Two powerhouse top seeds in the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees, and a pair of wild card Cinderellas make for intriguing match-ups in the first round of Major League Baseball playoffs starting Friday.

Missouri Republicans have backed down from their threats to hold their presidential primary in February, electing to hold a caucus on March 17 instead -- but in other states, the mad rush for early primaries continues, to the detriment of voters.

As several U.S. states fight to enact stricter immigration laws, several sources have reported a shocking practice that has occurred in more than one state: shackling pregnant women to their hospital bed during childbirth.

Scientists study social dominance in mice.

The latest listeria outbreak has taken at least 16 lives and caused dozens of illnesses in 18 states across the U.S., marking the deadliest food outbreak in over a decade.

The group that oversees the power grid serving the Western United States has requested potentially sensitive market information as it investigates the Sept. 8 power outage that left 7 million people in the dark in California and Arizona, the California grid operator said on Wednesday.

Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Arizona shooting that injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, should get four more months of psychiatric treatment, a federal judge has ordered.

The U.S. Energy Department finalized loan guarantees for two major solar projects on Wednesday, as the deadline loomed for the government's renewable-energy incentive program.

The Florida legislature is planning to schedule the state's Republican presidential primary for Jan. 31, 2012, expressly violating party rules and further upsetting the 2012 election cycle.

A federal judge upheld a measure to require public schools to verify the citizenship of its students as well as another that allows police to detain suspected illegal immigrants without bond.

Seventy-two people from 18 states, so far, are confirmed to have been infected with the deadly Listeria bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes as of Monday. Here are nine more states that may be in danger of suffering listeria infections or possible deaths.

Seventy-two people from 18 states are confirmed to have been infected with the deadly Listeria monocytogenes bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Another haboob, or dust storm, swept across Arizona Tuesday afternoon near Phoenix, causing a multi-car accident on Interstate 10 that injured a dozen people. The dust storm prevented highway patrol officers from clearing the car crash that blocked eastbound lanes on I-10 near Picacho Park for several hours.

At least 13 people in eight U.S. states have died as a result of a listeria outbreak from contaminated cantaloupes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Cantaloupe Listeria Deaths Continue to Rise

Matt Kemp has a legitimate chance at the National League Triple Crown.

The implication is that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is too lax on enforcing federal immigration laws, and that his support of the in-state tuition bill aligns him more closely with Democrats than Republicans. But to those who have followed Perry's career as governor, the narrative that he is overly sympathetic to immigrants or weak on enforcement is somewhere between an oversimplification and an outright falsehood.

Real Madrid faces Ajax in Champions League group play action.