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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service is embroiled in battles with tea party and other conservative groups who claim the government is purposely frustrating their attempts to gain tax-exempt status....

It's finally looking like ski season in California's Sierra Nevada as a late winter storm exceeded forecasts by dumping at least 6 feet of fluff at the highest elevations....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama's order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives....

PROVO, Utah (AP) -- In one of the rarest feats in the annals of family planning, a Utah woman has given birth on a third consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set in the 1960s....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Caustic commentator Andrew Breitbart was loved by conservatives who championed his viral Internet exposes that brought down politicians, and hated by others who said he selectively used the truth to do it....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Caustic commentator Andrew Breitbart was loved by conservatives who championed his viral Internet exposes that brought down politicians, and hated by others who said he selectively used the truth to do it....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- A 17-year-old boy will be tried as an adult in the Ohio school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service is battling tea party and other conservative groups that claim the government is purposely frustrating their efforts to gain tax-exempt status....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A woman dubbed the "Black Madam" could face charges in the death of a London tourist who received illegal buttocks-enhancement injections last year in a Philadelphia hotel, police said Thursday....

BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) -- With Maryland poised to legalize gay marriage, some conservative opponents and religious leaders are counting on members of their congregations, especially in black churches, to upend the legislation at the polls this fall....

HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) -- Crews cleared splintered plywood and smashed appliances from small-town neighborhoods Thursday, a day after tornadoes killed 13 people in the Midwest and South. But the forecast held a menacing possibility: More twisters may be coming, and they could be even stronger....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A woman arrested in connection with an illegal buttocks-enhancement injection that left a patient sickened last month is considered a "person of interest" in the death of a tourist who underwent a similar procedure last year, police said Thursday....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The New York Police Department ignored one of the key lessons of Sept. 11 by not sharing information with New Jersey law enforcement agencies when it conducted secret surveillance of Muslim communities, Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the nation's fallen warriors on Memorial Day, attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and honoring those who died during the Vietnam War....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials say one student has died and another is hospitalized after a stabbing at a Chicago school for children with behavioral and emotional needs....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart, who was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, has died in Los Angeles at age 43....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has defeated a Republican effort to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on contraception insurance coverage....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Walt Disney World is retooling an Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity after critics complained it was insensitive to obese kids and reinforced stereotypes....

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for slaying a pregnant acquaintance and cutting her baby boy alive from her womb....

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for slaying a pregnant acquaintance and cutting her baby boy alive from her womb....