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Navy officials call the replacement of Ohio-class submarines home-ported at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay and at the Pacific base in Bangor, Wash., the service's "top priority program." (AP Image)

National Security

Navy: New submarine program still ‘top priority’

Associated Press · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

President ObamaÃÂ Obama will deliver a speech and meet with students Friday at Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-Tech), which was born out of cooperation between the city's Department of Education, the City University of New York and IBM. (AP Image)

Obama to visit cutting-edge New York City school

Associated Press · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Ted Cruz caps post-shutdown tour with wary Iowans

Associated Press · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

South Dakota Tea Party ad likens ‘Obamacare’ to communism

South Dakota Tea Party ad likens ‘Obamacare’ to communism

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

CBO: Raising Medicare age produces small savings

CBO: Raising Medicare age produces small savings

Andrew Taylor and Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Vice President Joe Biden addresses an audience during a forum on mental health policies that marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's signing of the Community Mental Health Act on Wednesday at the JFK Library and Museum in Boston. (AP/Steven Senne)

Joe Biden: Country on cusp of mental health changes

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

This photo taken Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 shows Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad speaking during his weekly news conference at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Fed up with being pushed aside, veteran Iowa Republicans are quietly working to wrest control of the state GOP from the evangelicals, tea partyers and libertarians they blame for alienating longtime party loyalists and diminishing the stateÃ?s coveted presidential caucuses. Led by Branstad, these Republicans want to grow the state party __ led lately by ideological crusaders __ by bringing back into the fold voters seeking pragmatic solutions to a host of problems and attracting people of diverse political stripes, including women and younger voters. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Veteran Iowa Republicans seek state GOP makeover

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Attorney and immigration activist Linda Vega announced Wednesday she will challenge incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in next year's Republican primary.

Immigration activist Linda Vega challenging John Cornyn in Texas GOP primary

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

State officials knew that Corrections Corporation of America was understaffing the Idaho Correctional Center since at least 2010. (AP File)

Staffing issues known for years at private prison in Idaho

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

A patient believed to be one of the National Guardsmen injured near the naval base in Millington, Tenn., was taken to The Med in Memphis, Tenn., early Thursday afternoon. Two ambulances arrived carrying two injured men shortly after the shooting occurred. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Karen Pulfer Focht)

National Security

2 shot at Memphis-area National Guard armory; gunman in custody

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

The Food and Drug Administration said in an online statement that hydrocodone-containing drugs should be subject to the same restrictions as other narcotic drugs like oxycodone and morphine. (AP File)

FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkiller

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Clinton state Rep. Harold Naughton released a video making public his plans to run for attorney general. He also announced campaign stops in Springfield, Fall River, Attleboro and Clinton. (AP Image)

Second Democrat jumps into race for Massachusetts attorney general

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am