(WASHINGTON, AP) — The Senate’s top Republican is conceding that his party will have to await the next president before it can cut off federal funds that go to Planned Parenthood. Senate… Read more »

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (WASHINGTON, AP) — The last major piece of President Barack Obama’s health care law could raise costs for thrifty consumers as well as large corporations and union members when it… Read more »

(OMAHA, Neb., AP) — A survey conducted in August suggests there will be little or no economic growth over the next three months in a nine-state region of the Midwest and Plains,… Read more »

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO (LOS ANGELES, AP) — Results for some of the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the first time this spring are out, with overall scores… Read more »

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and MATTHEW BROWN (WASHINGTON, AP) — U.S. officials knew of the potential for a catastrophic “blowout” of poisonous wastewater from an inactive gold mine, yet appeared to have… Read more »

By RUSS BYNUM (SAVANNAH, Ga., AP) — A 25-year-old officer from Texas who flies Apache attack helicopters is one of the first women to complete the Army’s grueling Ranger School,… Read more »

(EDGARTOWN, Mass., AP) — The White House has hired its first openly transgender staff member. The White House announced Raffi Freedman-Gurspan’s appointment on Tuesday. Freedman-Gurspan is an outreach and recruitment… Read more »

By CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM (MOREHEAD, Ky., AP) — A Kentucky clerk who defied a federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses and turned away four gay couples has until… Read more »

(MINNEAPOLIS, AP) — The ceiling of a landmark Minneapolis concert venue partially collapsed during a show late Wednesday night, injuring three people, officials said. Firefighters responded to a report of… Read more »

By KRISTIN J. BENDER (SAN FRANCISCO, AP) — Public urination has gotten so bad in San Francisco that the city has painted nine walls with a repellant paint that makes… Read more »