The price of the President Obama's fundraising travel — as was the case with his predecessors — is partially footed by taxpayers, something the opposition party is quick to point out. And reimbursements don't cover the actual sum of expenses.

Exelon Corp. won conditional approval from Maryland regulators for its takeover of Constellation Energy Group Inc., leaving one regulatory hurdle to the $7.36 billion merger announced nine months ago.

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Is “Downton Abbey’’ perfectly attuned to these times or totally out of step?

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover agent on a whitewater

The special honors presented at the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards were emotional, too. Yolanda Adams sang the spiritual song “I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry” as part of a moving tribute to Whitney Houston, who died last week.

News: First presidential election since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year will be held in first week of June, an official judicial committtee supervising vote says

AFP: Netanyahu meets top US advisor amid Iran tension

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama seems to channel Napoleon Bonaparte these days, emulating the “little Corsican’s” celebrated observation that a commander should never interfere with an adversary who’s screwing up. That shouldn’t suggest Republican prospects are doomed this fall.

North Korea has threatened to attack South Korea accusing it of planning live-fire drills near their disputed sea border.