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Stocks closed at their highest level of the year Tuesday as investors welcomed the latest signal from the Federal Reserve that it will move slowly to raise interest rates. Big names including Apple and Microsoft led technology stocks higher as…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:

BALTIMORE (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday he's confident Congress will approve the $1 billion the president requested for cancer research and help pave the way toward cures for all types of cancer — a goal scientists say…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed at their highest level of the year Tuesday as investors welcomed the latest signal from the Federal Reserve that it will move slowly to raise interest rates. Big names including Apple and Microsoft led…

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The opportunity to reminisce and trade stories with old Raiders teammates is always one of the highlights for Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff when he hosts his annual golf tournament.

NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys general in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Massachusetts are investigating whether Exxon Mobil deceived the public or shareholders about the effects of climate change, joining similar inquiries into the oil giant launched by New York…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants one of America's most prestigious universities to move its campus south to the Sunshine State.

Daryl Thomas Long, the accused hit-and-run driver charged with killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence on March 13, Tuesday pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and felony hit and run.

Whenever talk of the best college basketball player this season came up so did two names: Denzel Valentine of Michigan State and Buddy Hield of Oklahoma.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to help launch a new cancer-fighting effort (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the Fed still envisions only a gradual pace of interest rate increases in light of global pressures that could affect the U.S. economy.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A convicted murder captured about 24 hours after he was found missing from an Ohio prison apparently didn't have an escape plan, authorities said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has demanded The New York Times retract a story that called the league's concussion research flawed and likened the NFL's handling of head trauma to the tobacco industry's response to the dangers of cigarettes.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium's justice minister pleaded Tuesday for critics of Belgium's intelligence failures to focus on the hunt for those behind last week's Brussels attacks and November's massacre in Paris.

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday postponed the trial of a teenager charged in the shooting deaths of an Arkansas couple so prosecutors can ask the FBI to help access an iPod and iPhone to search for evidence.

SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — The Latest in the legal battle of a 76-year-old man who says he's been wrongfully imprisoned in the 1957 slaying of a 7-year-old Illinois girl (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are breaking out of the doldrums Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank still expects interest rates in the U.S. to rise gradually. Big names including Apple and Microsoft are…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Janice Dickinson's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby should move forward, a judge ruled Tuesday, saying a trial can determine the truthfulness of the model's claims that the comedian raped her in 1982.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court is exploring a possible compromise ruling in the dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut marijuana bust has turned into a potential precedent-setting case on whether apartment and condo dwellers have the same rights as house owners when it comes to police using drug-sniffing dogs outside their homes.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Alaska's Pavlof Volcano (all times local):

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Tuesday he will appeal a court ruling that struck down key parts of a state law limiting the ability of cities to profit from traffic tickets and court fines.

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AP) — James Cain learned only last Tuesday, following the airport bombing in Brussels, that his daughter was married.

SEATTLE (AP) — The 25-hour saga of a man who refused to come down from a giant sequoia tree in downtown Seattle was "an incalculable waste of time and services," authorities said.

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Police are investigating whether powerful wind gusts played a role in the death of a man who fell off the roof of a seven-story office building in New Jersey.