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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden  dropped out of  the 2024 race  for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that …

LOS ANGELES — Bob Newhart, the deadpan accountant-turned-comedian who became one of the most popular TV  stars of his time after striking gold with a classic comedy album, has died at 94. …

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday that apps that allow workers to access their paychecks in advance , often for a fee, are providing loans and therefore subject …

DETROIT — A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the …

The data of nearly all customers of the telecommunications giant AT&T was downloaded to a third-party platform in a security breach, the company said Friday, as  cyberattacks against …

WASHINGTON — Western intelligence agencies have uncovered Russian plots to carry out assassinations, arson and other sabotage in Europe against companies and people linked to support for …

Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Hot weather, too, can …

HOUSTON — About half a million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without electricity next week, the city's largest utility said Thursday, stoking the frustration of hot and weary …

NEW YORK — A new study that recreated commercial pasteurization in a government lab provides reassurance that heat treatment kills bird flu virus in cow’s milk, U.S. officials said …

NEW YORK — With fresh COVID-19 cases bubbling up in some parts of the country, health officials are setting course for a fall vaccination campaign. The Centers for Disease Control and …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court  cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on  homeless people  sleeping outside in public places on Friday, overturning a California appeals …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court  on Friday upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and …

Election 2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden forcefully tried on Friday to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate  with former President Donald Trump, as elected members of …

NEW YORK — Car dealerships in North America are still wrestling with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a company whose software is used widely in the auto retail …

NEW YORK — Donald Sutherland,  the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The …

AUGUSTA, Maine — Former U.S. Marine Gerry Brooks died alone at a nursing home in Maine, abandoned and all but forgotten. Then the funeral home posted a notice asking if anyone would serve as a …

KHARKIV, Ukraine — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked almost to the ceiling with home improvement products. The next Russian bomb streaked down like a comet seconds later, unleashing …

MENOKEN, N.D. — Some day, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet (10.6 kilometers) over Dan McLean’s North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other …

NEW YORK — Dr. Lisa Walling’s first house call of the day was with a particularly fluffy hospice patient — a 13-year-old Newfoundland named Rugby. Rugby happily licked a plate …

DES MOINES, Iowa — As the U.S. dairy industry confronts a bird flu outbreak , with cases reported at  dozens of farms  and the disease  spreading to people , the egg industry …

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