By JILL COLVIN (NEW YORK, AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she’s proud to have been part of an administration that “banned illegal renditions and brutal interrogations” and said… Read more »

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS (COLUMBUS, Ohio, AP) — The state’s former expert witness on lethal injection should have known that a condemned inmate would suffer because of a two-drug combo that… Read more »

By PAT EATON-ROBB (HARTFORD, Conn., AP) — The families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher wounded two years ago at the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed… Read more »

By KRISTIN J. BENDER and PAUL ELIAS (BERKELEY, Calif., AP) — Authorities arrested nearly 160 people in Berkeley as crowds marched for a third night in a row to protest grand… Read more »

(NEWBURGH, N.Y., AP) — Two boys trapped in a snow pile in the Hudson Valley for several hours after a plow buried them were able to survive thanks to an… Read more »

By ELLIOT SPAGAT (SAN DIEGO, AP) — Advocacy groups barely waited for President Barack Obama to finish speaking about sweeping changes to the U.S. immigration system to start warning about… Read more »

By KRISTEN WYATT (DENVER, AP) — That’s not mistletoe. From new marijuana strains for the holidays to gift sets and pot-and-pumpkin pies, the burgeoning marijuana industry in Colorado is scrambling… Read more »

By CAROLYN THOMPSON (BUFFALO, N.Y., AP) — People in storm-socked areas around Buffalo began returning to work on Monday as fast-melting mounds of snow fed into creeks that were starting… Read more »

(WASHINGTON, D.C., AP) — Missouri’s two U.S. senators say they’ll continue to support the Keystone XL Pipeline despite a loss in the Senate. The bill fell one vote short Tuesday… Read more »

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., AP) — More than two dozen American Indian tribes are teaming up with a tourism group and the National Park Service to tell a… Read more »