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Mario Andrette McNeill is being charged with the first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a five-year-old North Carolina girl.

Health insurance companies are not rushing to judgment over whether to pay for annual mammograms for women 40 and older.

A teacher in Clayton Country, Georgia was arrested Monday on charges that he allegedly put a hit on one of his students.

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Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, 21, claims she had no choice but to refuse her orders because no one was available to care for her infant son.

Obama said Monday that individual expression is not an American ideal but a universal right that should be available to all.

Shores, who lives in Memphis with her mother, Vanessa, was stunned into uncharacteristic silence when she found out she’d won.

President Obama will host a White House summit next month on fighting the chronic joblessness that continues to be a drag on a struggling economy.

Communities need veterans' knowledge in technical skills such as engineering, logistics and public safety, she said.

Every so often, you meet a person who leaves an impression so deep, it’s hard to shake off.

"I was trying to be historically correct, not politically correct," said tour guide Ian Campbell, a black man.

The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday.

The call came into the 911 dispatcher: "I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm drunk."

President Obama and the first lady doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters.