By JOSH LEDERMAN (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader… Read more »

(LAS CRUCES, N.M., AP) — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is promising that the “coward” who set off explosions outside two Las Cruces churches will be caught. The small blasts… Read more »

By TERRENCE PETTY and DAN JOLING (PORTLAND, Ore., AP) — Authorities used boats, personal watercraft, poles and their bare hands to remove protesters in kayaks and hanging from bridges who had… Read more »

By MATT SEDENSKY (TEQUESTA, Fla., AP) — Families hoped for a miracle even as science nagged that one was improbable and rescue crews went into a seventh day of searches… Read more »

By KATE BRUMBACK (ATLANTA, AP) — Four Confederate battle flags were found on the grounds of the Ebenezer Baptist Church near the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta on… Read more »

By LISA CORNWELL and DAN SEWELL (CINCINNATI, AP) — A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot a motorist after stopping him over a missing front license plate pleaded not guilty… Read more »

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (WASHINGTON, AP) — It’s lasted six years. But now welcome relief from rising U.S. health care costs seems to be winding down. Health care spending will outpace… Read more »

By JOAN LOWY (WASHINGTON, AP) — The House and Senate are moving toward passage of a three-month patch to keep federal highway and transit aid flowing to states while lawmakers… Read more »

By BRIAN BAKST and AMY FORLITI (BLOOMINGTON, Minn., AP) — A Minnesota dentist who went on a guided bow hunting trip for big game in Zimbabwe said that he had no… Read more »

By TAMARA LUSH (ABOVE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, AP) — As the search for two missing teen boaters from Florida entered its sixth day, Coast Guard crews on Wednesday extended the… Read more »