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BOSTON — Seventeen years after the Brood XIV cicadas last emerged as adults and annoyed people with their loud buzzing calls, they’re coming back.

Residents along inner Cape Cod and over the bridge into southeastern ...Read more

Republicans have waged a yearslong battle against cultural institutions. It reached an abrupt zenith on Thursday night.

President Donald Trump’s firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday marked the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump floated an 80% tariff on China ahead of negotiations due to begin Saturday as he urged Beijing to do more to open their markets to U.S. goods.

“80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B,...Read more

A week after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a woman turned herself in to U.S. Capitol Police, revealing she had a knife, two “Molotov cocktails” and planned to kill Trump Cabinet members, court documents say....Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly 18 months after the first of six guilty verdicts, the federal government has made good on its pledge to move some of California’s allegedly most dangerous inmates into the federal prison ...Read more

A federal judge freed a Turkish graduate student on bail while she fights possible deportation over the Trump administration’s claims of antisemitism in an op-ed she helped write.

The ruling Friday in favor of Tufts ...Read more

A man died Thursday after rushing into the perilous waters of San Francisco's Ocean Beach fully clothed in an attempt to rescue his dog, authorities said. While the dog made it out of the ocean alive, the man was ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s prison system once again is without execution drugs after its stockpile expired earlier this year, the latest in a series of hurdles to carrying out the death penalty in the state.

The Idaho ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Kent County's top prosecutor said he'll decide in the coming weeks whether to retry a former Grand Rapids police officer for second-degree murder after a mistrial was declared Thursday, but experts ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police will hold a vote of no confidence against Police Chief Johnny Jennings following reports of a settlement between Jennings and the city and allegations...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most California voters are confident in the state’s voting system, a new poll shows, with one large exception: Republican voters.

Nearly two-thirds of GOP voters in the state say fraud is either ...Read more

Forecasters are confident it’s a particularly bad water year for the Colorado River, worrying some about a likely return to record low levels in reservoirs that are reminiscent of 2022.

Las Vegas is almost entirely ...Read more

DORAL, Fla. — Dozens of Venezuelans gathered at El Arepazo, an iconic restaurant in the heart of Doral’s Venezuelan community, for a vigil Thursday night in support of deportation protections now under review by the U....Read more

ATLANTA — A woman has been arrested after police said she damaged a Tesla dealership with an automatic BB gun in Gwinnett County, one of several acts of violence targeting the electric vehicle company across the United ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia officials on Friday celebrated a new $37.8 billion state spending plan that devotes more money to schools, prisons and other priorities.

Now they must wait to see whether federal budget cuts and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Two city employees who were fired after making failed bids for local office last year sued Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott last week, accusing him of directing their firings because he saw them as aligning with...Read more

SEATTLE — A police response earlier this week to a locally famous nude beach on the shores of Lake Washington has brought into sharp relief the ongoing tension between the park’s history as a safe place for people in ...Read more

Commuters found themselves stranded at train stations across the Bay Area during the peak hours of Friday’s morning commute after a computer issue knocked out service to the region’s train system for more than four ...Read more