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SEATTLE/NEW YORK — The U.S. air safety regulator is drafting rules to permit small drones to be used for commercial purposes, a step toward allowing remote-control planes and helicopters to be deployed for everything from TV news coverage to monitoring crops. Media companies, energy...

FARGO, N.D. — Despite gas prices being at their highest levels since 2008, representatives from AAA and other travel associations do not expect holiday travel to be affected. Monday’s national average price for gas is $3.67 per gallon, up nearly 20 cents from last year’s price...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that business owners can object on religious grounds to a provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare law that requires closely held companies to provide health insurance that covers birth control. The court held...

It was billed as an economic policy address, but President Obama used a friendly venue Friday in Minneapolis to unload on congressional Republicans, accusing them of doing the bidding of the rich and powerful at the expense of middle-class Americans.“Sometimes I’m supposed to...

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and others participated in a broad plan to circumvent the state's campaign finance laws...

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. -- John Berens was taking pictures with his iPad when his wife yelled at him to get to the basement. He saw a white car across the street get lifted 6 feet in the air, and he knew it was time to take cover. "It was just like they say about a freight...

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. -- Kim Christensen was driving his four-wheeler through Wessington Springs on Wednesday night, because he didn’t want to puncture a tire on his vehicle. Wood, tin, nails and other debris -- the remains of homes and businesses no longer standing -- lay...

(Reuters) - Hundreds of residents driven from a Nebraska village leveled by a deadly tornado were expected to be allowed back into their community Tuesday to salvage the remains of their belongings. "Pilger is gone," said Sanford Goshorn, director of emergency management for Stanton...

BISMARCK -- The president has landed in North Dakota enroute to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived at Bismarck Airport in Air Force One at approximately 2:20 p.m. Friday. The couple waved to North Dakota leaders as...

CANNON BALL, N.D. – American Indians opposed to the Keystone XL oil pipeline erected a tepee and held up signs against a fierce wind to protest the project here Friday morning, hours before President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were scheduled to arrive.