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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Lawyers for people who say their homes were wrecked by defective drywall made in China have filed a new lawsuit against the manufacturers and a new defendant — the Chinese Cabinet agency that oversees the country’s biggest ...

(AP) They were once friends, or at least friendly. Both were self-made men who’d soared far past their working-class background. One was a rising star of the Republican Party and potential vice-presidential pick. The other, a multimillionaire entrepreneur who owned ...

(AP) When former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted on corruption charges in January, the couple stood together at a hastily called news conference to denounce the charges. Three days later, they held hands as they made ...

(AP) A jury of eight men and four women was selected Monday in the trial of a former Virginia governor and his wife, who are charged with trading the influence of his office in exchange for thousands of dollars in ...

(AP) Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban was ruled unconstitutional on Monday in the first such decision by a federal appellate court in the South. “We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) After several months of indirectly taking shots at each other, Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and Republican challenger Ed Gillespie traded jabs in person Saturday at their first debate. The pair battled over immigration, energy, ...

(AP) One of the drugs used in three recent botched executions across the country will remain part of Virginia’s lethal injection protocol, a spokesman for the prison system said Friday. Larry Traylor said the Department of Corrections is not considering ...

(AP) Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is a possible witness in the upcoming corruption trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday. The person told the ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) Five people, including two women in the U.S., were charged Wednesday with funneling money to the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia, prosecutors said. The two U.S. women — Muna Osman Jama, 34, of Reston, and Hinda Osman ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health care law is enmeshed in another big legal battle after two federal appeals courts issued contradictory rulings on a key financing issue within hours of each other Tuesday. A divided court panel in ...