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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would look to diversify critical minerals purchases during a meeting with five central Asian countries on Thursday, as the U.S. seeks to address China’s dominance in rare ...Read more

Senate leaders plan to take up a stopgap funding measure in a rare Friday session to test whether a Democratic logjam could finally break to end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

But after a long day of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators on both sides of the aisle on Thursday signed onto a call to keep advanced artificial intelligence chips from being sold to China.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., unveiled an as-yet unnumbered resolution...Read more

A Commission on Judicial Conduct hearing officer has found that a Boston judge accused of helping an illegal immigrant defendant escape from court did not take part on the plan but should receive a public reprimand for ...Read more

A listeria outbreak that federal health officials say has swept through 18 states, killing half a dozen people and causing more than two dozen hospitalizations has been linked to frozen pasta available at stores including ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk A/S secured deals with the Trump administration to slash prices for their blockbuster weight-loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy in exchange for tariff relief and wider ...Read more

SEATTLE — A King County jury on Thursday awarded $8 million to a former Seattle Public Schools student who was punched in the face by his middle school math teacher in 2018.

The verdict came after three days of ...Read more

CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino said federal agents’ operations had been “going very violent” the same day that his agents fired pepper balls at a moving vehicle in Gage Park and pointed rifles in...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal jury found a former Justice Department employee not guilty of misdemeanor assault over a viral incident in which he threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer.

The jury in the U.S...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Kim Davis, then the Rowan County clerk, repeatedly refused to sign her name to marriage licenses for unions of gay couples in her Eastern Kentucky county in the summer of 2015, she set off a ...Read more

Victims of the January wildfires in Los Angeles County urged Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday to call for the resignation of California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, saying the regulator has allowed insurers to run ...Read more

It was Bill Clinton's campaign guru James Carville who codified the insight that the Democratic Party's electoral prospects were destined to rise as Americans' feelings of economic well-being slid: "It's the economy, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In announcing Thursday she won’t seek another term after nearly 40 years in Congress, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the powerful former two-time House speaker who led passage of major Democratic legislation and...Read more

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has secured a procedural victory in his ongoing federal case.

A US court has approved his request for an expedited appeal - a decision that could bring oral arguments forward to April 2026.

The ruling ...Read more

SZA has spoken publicly for the first time about her online feud with Nicki Minaj.

The 35-year-old performer said she does not understand how the dispute began and insists there is "no backstory" behind their public ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo’s re-election bid, calling him, “SMART, STRONG, AND TOUGH.”

Trump presented his endorsement in a post on his media company, Truth Social.

“Joe ...Read more

Tesla shareholders voted to approve a $1 trillion compensation plan for Chief Executive Elon Musk, a record-breaking package intended to help the world's richest person focus on the electric vehicle maker.

Shareholders ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill came out on top in the race for New Jersey governor, defeating President Donald Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli.

“They always said we’re loud, but man, with ...Read more

Microsoft is creating a new system for employees to raise concerns over how its technology is used, in response to reports about mass surveillance data on Palestinian civilians stored on its cloud servers.

In an internal ...Read more

At a Whole Foods store just outside of Philadelphia, Amazon built a small warehouse housing Goldfish crackers, Tide Pods and other items you wouldn't find in an organic grocery store.

Amazon, which acquired Whole Foods in...Read more