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Posted: 7:06 AM There's a reason Republicans are continuing to defy President Obama. It's what their constituents want.

Posted: 7:03 AM The House is voting on whether to extend the current pay freeze for the nation's 2 million civilian federal workers.

Updated: 7:02 AM The asteroid will be too faint to see with the naked eye.

Posted: 6:59 AM The vacation ship carrying some 4,200 people docked late Thursday in Mobile after five numbing days at sea without power.

Posted: 6:58 AM Police say a 19-year-old woman has been charged in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl from her Philadelphia elementary school last month.

Posted: 6:56 AM President Barack Obama is wrapping up his post-State of the Union tour by talking about how government can build what he calls "ladders of opportunity" into the middle class.

Updated: 12:36 AM The first buses carrying passengers from a disabled cruise ship are pulling away to take them to next stop on their odyssey.

Posted: 3:19 PM A Coast Guard official says a disabled cruise ship is stopped off the coast of Alabama because of a broken towline attached to one of the boats towing the vessel.

Posted: 3:13 PM A southern Illinois family is finding their homemade maple syrup operation anything but sweet after investigators swarmed their property, mistaking their sap collection for a meth lab.

Posted: 3:02 PM A merged American Airlines and US Airways will carry more passengers around the world than any other, but even the biggest airline flying doesn't need eight hub airports on the ground.

Posted: 8:09 AM A judge presiding over the trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is holding a hearing to discuss scheduling and jury selection.

Posted: 8:04 AM The number of U.S. homes entering the foreclosure process fell in January to a level not seen since the peak of the housing boom.

Posted: 7:54 AM A government report says an increasing number of women are using the morning-after pill after sex.

Posted: 5:15 PM The head of the U.S. Postal Services is pleading with Congress not to thwart his plan to cut Saturday mail as a way to save money.

Posted: 7:58 AM A cruise line says it is making passengers stranded aboard a disable ship as comfortable as possible, contradicting accounts of some passengers.

Updated: 7:56 AM A sheriff's spokeswoman says charred human remains have been found in the burned-out cabin where a fugitive former Los Angeles police officer was believed to be.

Posted: 7:53 AM A look at some of the claims in his State of the Union speech, a glance at the Republican counterargument and how they fit with the facts.

Posted: 10:52 PM Republicans say President Barack Obama's second-term agenda will bring more tax increases and increase deficit spending. They're vowing to promote economic growth to help middle-class families find good jobs.

Posted: 10:14 PM President Barack Obama is launching three manufacturing hubs and is asking Congress to create 15 more that can create locations with partnerships between the private sector and the federal government to create high-tech jobs.

Updated: 10:17 PM San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says one of two deputies wounded in a gunbattle with a man believed to be a fugitive ex-LA cop has died.

Posted: 4:31 PM A law enforcement official says a person believed to be the fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop sought in three killings has exchanged gunfire with authorities in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Posted: 4:10 PM Tonight's State of the Union address will reflect President Barack Obama's focus on nation-building at home.

Posted: 4:08 PM In a solid show of bipartisanship, the Senate has voted to renew the two-decade-old Violence Against Women Act with new provisions to ensure that gays and lesbians, immigrants and Native American women have equal access to the act's anti-domestic violence programs.