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Rescue workers searched rubble early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others.

Some policy experts say Californians are already getting some benefits from the federal health care reform package signed into law this year. More features will kick in this fall.

U.S. border patrol agents are training Mexican federal police in Nogales, Ariz., to fight drug cartels. One official says it's a critical step in securing both sides of the border, where drug-related violence has soared.

The question of how to treat ductal carcinoma in situ is roiling the medical profession, and making for tough choices for women. The condition may never become invasive cancer. But some women choose to have mastectomies rather than live with uncertainty.

A federal judge ordered the city of San Diego Wednesday to allow military contractor Blackwater Worldwide to begin using a new counterterrorism training facility.

A decision on whether same-sex marriages will be allowed to resume in California is expected today, but even if a federal judge gives his OK, an emergency appeal could again put the brakes on.

The head of San Diego County Health and Human Services says state guidelines on how to use federal stimulus money were so vague that the county could not risk applying for millions in emergency assistance funding.

A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed prepared on Wednesday to invalidate a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The law is considered the most effective piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

U.S. federal officials have launched a new online system to help relatives and attorneys find people who are in immigration lock-ups. In the past, locating people was sometimes impossible.

Two years ago, the president promised to run the most transparent administration in history. Scholars and privacy experts have some doubts about how well the administration has fulfilled its commitment.