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Several conservative Senate Republicans have swung behind a bipartisan budget bill, apparently giving it enough momentum to win a pivotal test in the Senate over the passive resistance of top GOP leaders.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with possession of methamphetamine following arrests in Cheyenne that federal agents claim yielded several pounds of the drug.

The first year of automatic, across-the-board budget cuts didn't live up to the dire predictions from the Obama administration and others who warned of sweeping furloughs and big disruptions of government services. The second round just might.

The head of the Border Patrol says his agents made about 420,000 arrests in the budget year that ended in September, a 15 percent increase from the previous year.

On this, Republican budget guru Rep. Paul Ryan and the Senate's top Democrat, Harry Reid, can agree: There won't be a "grand bargain" on the budget.

Some tourists to Yellowstone National Park are complaining about their treatment by National Park Service rangers when the park was closed down last week because of the partial federal shutdown.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Peter King is charging that tea party-backed members of the House Republican Caucus are trying to "hijack the party." The New York Republican says he senses that increasing numbers of House Republicans — perhaps as many as a hundred — are growing weary of "the Ted Cruz wing of the party...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The partial government shutdown is just the latest bad news for military towns already grappling with mandatory budget cuts and planned reductions in the size of the country's armed forces. Military contractors and other small businesses have been preparing for the worst for months in places like Fayetteville, N...

Things got off to a rocky start on Tuesday for the federal government's new health insurance exchange in Wyoming.

A federal judge has declined a request by an aircraft preservation group to dismiss a lawsuit involving aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart's missing airplane.