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With some early childhood education centers already closing their doors because of the federal government shutdown, local leaders are scrambling to find money to keep Head Start programs available to some of the country’...Read more

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Echo Kopplin wants South Dakota’s leaders to know that money from a new $50 billion federal rural health fund should help residents with limited transportation options.

Kopplin, a physician ...Read more

A lung just harvested for an organ transplant. A part critically needed to restart an assembly line. The hottest toy for Christmas.

Those are among the kinds of goods shipped by the country's complex air cargo system that...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — More than a half century after the U.S. ignited 67 atomic weapons in the the central Pacific Ocean, a former Navy base in the Bay Area continues to carry that nuclear legacy.

Last week, residents were ...Read more

International travel to Cuba is tumbling, putting the cash-strapped communist island on track for its worst showing since the pandemic.

The island received 1.4 million foreign visitors during the first nine months of the...Read more

Lucas Bravo has been cast alongside Emma Roberts in the forthcoming rom-com A Murder Uncorked.

Directed by Ari Sandel and produced by Vincent Newman, the script comes from the same scribe as Legally Blonde and The Ugly ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: My niece-in-law, "Justine," is a few years younger than my husband and I. We have been best friends for the last 25 years. She's 55 and divorced, with a grown daughter but no man in her life. She's extremely ...Read more

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked an order late Friday night that would have forced the government to backfill the country’s largest anti-hunger program — a move the administration claimed would require it to “...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A jury on Friday awarded $8.5 million to the parents of a bus passenger who died after another passenger restrained him for several minutes during an altercation on a San Diego bus.

The San Diego Superior ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Peabody Energy is heading to the suburbs, the latest company to leave downtown St. Louis.

Peabody, the nation’s largest private coal producer, plans to relocate next year from its eponymous building at 701...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is moving to subpoena former U.S. officials who worked on the investigation into whether anyone associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign conspired with Russia ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered a federal investigation into the meatpacking industry, blaming “majority foreign owned” companies for soaring beef prices.

Trump asked the Justice Department to “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Agriculture Department’s request for administrative stays on two federal court orders requiring the agency to fully pay November food stamp benefits.

The high ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy who was shot when he responded to a traffic crash in the southwest area of the county on Friday afternoon died at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital.

Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz,...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials warned that the number of flight cancellations may need to double if the government shutdown drags out and air-traffic controller staffing shortages worsen, potentially escalating travel ...Read more

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Education to halt the practice of inserting partisan language into automated out-of-office emails from accounts of furloughed employees that blames the government shutdown on ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests against his immigration crackdown was permanently blocked by a U.S. judge, handing him a major loss in his bid to send ...Read more

Queen Elizabeth II allegedly knew of the unsavory sexual proclivities of her son, Prince Andrew, according to a royal historian.

The long-reigning British monarch is said to have been a part of covering up the former Duke...Read more

NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department urged a New York state appeals court to reverse Donald Trump’s felony conviction, an extraordinary intervention by federal officials as the president seeks to clear his criminal ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A popular restaurant manager in Fresno was granted a pardon by Gov. Gavin Newsom for a crime he committed in his youth, according to the clemency letter released Friday.

Psalm Behpoor, who manages Pismo...Read more