Ken Stanford

A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents that her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City's mayor has been charged with threatening the president.

The stock market is closing sharply higher after the government reported a pickup in hiring last month.

Health care coverage for newly legalized immigrants is emerging as a thorny issue in Congress' drive to remake the nation's immigration system, posing hard-to-solve problems for Senate negotiators and threatening a bill-writing effort in the House.

Georgia Mountain Food Bank (GMFB) Friday launched its Summer Lunch Bag Program with a kickoff event at the Hall County Boys & Girls Club on Downy Boulevard.

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Records show that Georgia is on pace to spend nearly $35 million on private lawyers to do work for its departments and agencies rather than state attorneys.

An appeals court says the U.S. Trade Representative can withhold a classified position paper prepared during free-trade negotiations.

President Barack Obama is defending his government's secret surveillance, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the collection of America's phone records and U.S. Internet use.