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President Barack Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost.

The number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell slightly last week for the third straight week. But initial claims remain above levels that would signal net job gains.

A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" is denying that she planned to kill a Swedish artist or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.

Volunteers have filled a million sandbags as residents of Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., keep a wary eye on the rising Red River.

From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction and now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.

Health officials faced with meager supplies of swine flu vaccine last fall sent doses to some surprising places.

The Air Force Academy says applications to attend the school next fall are up more than 17 percent after stepped up recruiting among minorities and in areas of the country underrepresented at the school.

A plan to shutter a quarter of Detroit's public schools in June will add 45 more empty buildings to dozens of district properties dominating already blighted neighborhoods.

The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.

The father of 9 and 11-year-old siblings who helped deliver their baby brother at their Fremont home is calling his kids "super heroes."