NEW YORK— Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states that the routine steroid injections they received for back pain in recent months may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis.It became apparent Thursday that hundreds, and perhaps thousands, ...

IWASHINGTON - Federal agents and prosecutors in Phoenix ignored risks to the public and were primarily responsible for the botched effort to infiltrate weapons-smuggling rings in the operation dubbed "Fast and Furious," according to a report released Wednesday by the Justice Department’s ...

SALT LAKE CITY— President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night the occupant of the Oval Office must “work for everyone, not just for some,” jabbing back at Mitt Romney’s jarring statement that as a candidate, he doesn’t worry about the 47 percent of the country that pays no income ...

CHICAGO— Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked a state court Monday to force Chicago school teachers back to work and end a weeklong strike he calls illegal.Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said city attorneys asked the Cook County Circuit Court to force Chicago Teachers Union members off the picket ...

LOS ANGELES— Next and final stop: The biggest object in the asteroid belt.After spending a year gazing at a giant asteroid, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Wednesday began the cruise toward an even bigger target — a voyage that will take nearly three years.Ground controllers received a signal ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Actress Ashley Judd brought her star power to breakfast Tuesday as she urged her fellow Tennessee delegates to talk up the achievements of President Barack Obama’s first term.The Franklin, Tenn.-based star of "Kiss The Girls" and "Double Jeopardy" said that "with all the ...