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The Senate is debating a farm bill that would end cash payments from the federal government to help manage the risk of farming -- payments which have been in place in one form or another since the Great Depression.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to El Salvador as election-year pressure from Hispanics helped break a stalemate over the selection....

The new Senate farm bill is a bipartisan effort to cut the deficit, but what does it mean for farmers?

HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama said November's election will give voters the chance to break a stalemate about America's direction, declaring Thursday in a campaign speech in battleground Ohio that he and Republican Mitt Romney offer "two fundamentally different views" about how to grow the economy and create jobs....

A charity that raised close to $27 million to help animals worldwide spent nearly all of that money on fundraising expenses paid to a direct mail company, a CNN investigation finds.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking gay pride month just as it marks other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....

AZ Star Net | AZ Governer Jan Brewer wants police to have a clear understanding of what constitutes "reasonable suspicion."

John King answers viewers' questions submitted via Twitter on the presidential race and the JPMorgan losses

US President Barack Obama announces a new US strategy for sub-Saharan Africa which focuses on economic growth as well as security, democracy and development.

Mario Mandzukic's second-half equaliser earns Croatia a vital draw against Italy to leave Group C qualification wide open.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. plans to open for business in Myanmar, following the U.S. decision to suspend investment sanctions to reward the military-dominated country for democratic reforms....

Disgraced Texas tycoon Allen Stanford, famed for bankrolling cricket in the Caribbean, is jailed for 110 years for running a $7bn Ponzi scheme.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The search for a trauma surgeon and former military weapons expert who disappeared after the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend in a Buffalo hospital escalated into a nationwide manhunt Thursday, with authorities warning law enforcers and the public he could be armed and dangerous....

Jon Wertheim says that as details emerge from the Sandusky trial, Mike McQueary cannot simply be cast as a villain

TROY, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney is focusing on his grandchildren on Father's Day, bringing three of them to talk to the reporters traveling on his campaign plane....

Photos: Lance Armstrong over the years

Sen. Rand Paul says it would violate the constitution to use drones for routine surveillance of Americans

Syrian rebels outgunned by the military might of Bashar al-Assad's regime are relying instead on Iraqi insurgent-style improvised bombs.

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