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Colorado Flooding Cuts Off Mountain Towns, Kills 3

Heavy rains sent walls of water crashing down mountainsides Thursday in Colorado, cutting off remote towns, forcing the state's largest university to close and leaving at least three people dead …

Health Care

Health Overhaul Confuses Medicare Beneficiaries

Dear seniors, your Medicare benefits aren't changing under the Affordable Care Act. That's the message federal health officials are trying to get out to elderly consumers confused by overlapping enrollment …

National

AP Sources: CIA Delivering Light Weapons to Syria

The CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian rebels for several weeks, following President Barack Obama's decision to arm the rebels.

National

Kerry Set to Test Russia on Syria Weapons

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his team open two days of meetings with their Russian counterparts on Thursday, hoping to emerge with the outlines of a plan for …

World

Syrian Rebels Blast Russian Offer on Chemical Arms

Syria's top rebel commander called Thursday for regime officials to be put on trial for carrying out an alleged chemical attack near Damascus that killed hundreds last month, blasting a …

Economy

Release of Report on Port Spending Friday

A legislative committee will release a report this week on its analysis of spending at the State Port at Gulfport.

World

AP Analysis: Russia Re-Emerges as Mideast Player

With a few days' worth of surprise diplomacy, Vladimir Putin has revived memories of an era many thought was long gone, when Washington and Moscow jostled for influence while others …

National

Obama Conditionally Backs Offer on Syria

President Barack Obama conditionally endorsed a Russian offer for international inspectors to seize and destroy deadly chemical weapons in Syria as efforts to avert retaliatory U.S. missile strikes shift from …

National

9/11 Anniversary to Be Marked With Tributes

Sept. 11 victims' loved ones will gather at ground zero to commemorate the attacks' anniversary with the reading of names, moments of silence and serene music that have become tradition.

National

The NSA machine: Too Big for Anyone to Understand

The National Security Agency set it in motion in 2006 and the vast network of supercomputers, switches and wiretaps began gathering Americans' phone and Internet records by the millions, looking …

World

AP Interview: Syria Renouncing Arms Shows Strength

Syria's acceptance of a proposal to relinquish its chemical weapons stockpile should not be interpreted as a concession or sign of weakness, a senior government official said Wednesday. Damascus' agreement, …

Economy

Top 1 Percent in U.S. Took Biggest Share Since 1928

The income gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America last year reached the widest point since the Roaring Twenties.

Justice

Indian Court Convicts 4 in Fatal Gang Rape Case

An Indian court convicted four men Tuesday in the deadly gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a brutal crime that galvanized public anger over …

National

Obama Talks Syria Diplomacy, Fallback Airstrikes

Pushing military might and raising hopes it won't be needed, President Barack Obama threw his support Tuesday behind a plan for U.N. Security Council talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical …

National

Kerry: Syria Should Do More Than Declare Weapons

Secretary of State John Kerry says Syria must do more than just declare its chemical weapons stockpiles and sign the international treaty that bans them if it wants a Russian-led …