By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says he's ready to make the case to Congress this week that things are getting a lot better at the embattled ...

By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 31 former N.C. State male athletes alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine. In orders filed Tuesday, Wake ...

By HANNAH FLOR/Alaska Public Media Chris Andrews was working the belt at the Anchorage airport last fall, watching international cargo arrive. "An employee said, 'Hey, this box stinks, Chris,'" Andrews recalled. The box was labeled "car parts." Other stinky boxes came down the belt. ...

By GRETA SOLSAA and THEO WELLS-SPACKMAN/VTDigger VTDigger Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage. Moments later, Shortsleeve, who ...

By MICHAEL CASEY, R.J. RICO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Just a mile from Atlanta's stadium, which will welcome tens of thousands of fans to World Cup games this month, dozens of people were camped out on a downtown sidewalk waiting for a homeless shelter to ...

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the ...