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Authorities say they have confirmed a total of at least 11 victims whose remains were found in the home of Anthony Sowell.

The Senate has voted to give the jobless up to 20 weeks of additional unemployment benefits and significantly expand a tax credit program aimed at getting buyers back into the dormant housing market.

In a coup for House Democrats, officials say AARP will endorse sweeping health care overhaul legislation headed for a history-making floor vote.

For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.

The Federal Reserve says the nation's economy continues "to pick up" but it plans to keep its key interest rate at a record low for an "extended period."

Maine has become the fifth state to allow dispensaries where marijuana can be distributed to medical patients.

Officials at a prison hospital say chronic medical problems are complicating a psychiatric evaluation for the 89-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum.

The White House says that Republican wins in two governors' races were not referendums on the president.

The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems.

The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping.