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NEW YORK — A swath of the U.S. East Coast from Philadelphia to New York City to Maine braced for a potentially historic blizzard today expected to dump as much as 3 feet of snow and snarl transportation for tens of millions of people. The National Weather Service on Sunday issued...

CHICAGO — U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed agency staff to create and deliver an updated Animal Welfare Strategy plan within 60 days, according to an internal email reviewed by Reuters.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson was one of two Democrats to vote in favor of a Department of Homeland Security spending bill Wednesday. House Republicans drew a hard line against President Barack Obama’s executive immigration initiatives, voting to block them as they passed...

DULUTH -- U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn. has signed onto draft legislation that a Wisconsin congressman is circulating that, if passed and signed by the president, would once again remove federal protections from wolves in the Great Lakes region and Wyoming. Rep. Reid Ribble...

UPDATE: The Grand Forks County Sheriff has confirmed that two people were killed in the bus and train accident Monday afternoon. BREAKING: Train-bus accident reported at Larimore Forum News Service LARIMORE, N.D. -- An accident involving an elementary school bus and a train...

A U.S. federal judge on Monday began the process of selecting the jury that will hear the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, telling the first of some 1,200 prospects to read no more news accounts about the deadly blasts.Tsarnaev could get the death penalty...

(Reuters) - Authorities on Sunday praised a seven-year-old girl who ventured through dark woods for help after surviving a plane crash that killed her parents, a sister and a cousin on Friday in rural western Kentucky. “She is one remarkable young lady,” Heidi Moats, an investigator...