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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military leaders clearly expressed reluctance about using American might to stop the unending violence in Syria, insisting that diplomacy remains the best option to force President Bashar Assad to end the brutal crackdown on his own people....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police officers and FBI agents began tearing apart a New York City basement Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal said more firings could be imminent following the ouster of three agency employees....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and pushed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most employers through a sharply divided House....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the Senate Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A team of police officers and FBI agents began digging up a basement in New York City on Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone....

EDCOUCH, Texas (AP) -- Masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight at a Texas ranch near Mexico early Thursday, killing three people and wounding eight others in what authorities described as a bloody massacre....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A woman arrested in the mysterious slaying of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife will be charged with first-degree murder....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....

CONROE, Texas (AP) -- A nurse accused of fatally shooting a new mother and speeding away with the dying woman's infant son has quietly told a Texas judge that she understands she's facing capital murder charges....

FALLBROOK, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities have determined that a body found near a Southern California lake is that of Brittany Dawn Killgore, a Marine's wife whose disappearance has led to the arrest of another woman on suspicion of murder....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal agent Jeff Novitzky testified Monday that Roger Clemens was not a target when Novitzky began questioning Clemens' former strength coach, Brian McNamee, about performance-enhancing drugs....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings would follow the forced ouster of three agency employees....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over homeland security says he's scheduled a hearing for May 23 to review the Secret Service investigation of the Colombia prostitution scandal....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military is working on additional ways to try to halt the unending violence in Syria, but diplomacy remains the foremost option, Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military is working on additional ways to try to halt the unending violence in Syria, but diplomacy remains the foremost option, Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday....