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Hurricane Polo fuels fears of landslides and flooding in Mexico's southwest

Rain and strong winds began to pummel the coastline on Wednesday afternoon with waves crashing onto the normally p…

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
Indictment unsealed: Trump faces 37 felony counts in classified documents probe

Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury, making him the first former president to face federal criminal charges. The 37-count indictment in t…

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
Live updates | Trump Classified Documents Indictment

Many top Republicans have suggested the case against Trump is politically motivated

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
The Republican presidential field is largely set

Hre are takeaways on where the contest stands

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
The pause on student loan payments is ending. Can borrowers find room in their budgets?

Under President Joe Biden’s cancellation plan, Chanthanouvong would be eligible to get $20,000 of her debt erased, leaving her owing $5,000

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
Papa Jake survived D-Day on Omaha Beach, now he's a TikTok star

Larson landed on Omaha Beach, where he ran under machine-gun fire and made it to the cliffs without being wounded

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties

For more than a half-century, the annual marches have been an opportunity to demand action on specific issues such as the AIDS epidemic

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
DeSantis looks to connect with voters during 1st full day of campaigning in Iowa

Trump and his allies unleashed a fresh round of anti-DeSantis attacks on Tuesday

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
Most in US say don't ban race in college admissions but its role should be small: AP-NORC poll

Many colleges, especially selective ones, say race is one of many factors that officials can weigh when choosing which students get accepted

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
From the Civil War to today's mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction

As early as 1869, The New York Times wrote that the holiday could become “sacrilegious” and no longer “sacred” if it focuses more on pomp, dinners and oratory

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
Target on the defensive after removing LGBTQ+-themed products

According to a 2021 Gallup poll, 21% of people in Generation Z identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, compared with 3% of Baby Boomers

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time

The 24 million packages UPS ships on an average day amounts to about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
TikTok and other social media trends are thrusting performance crimes into the US spotlight

Users also sometimes subvert the platform's controls by misspelling or changing words in hashtags

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
Hike again? Take a pause? Fed officials are split about what to do next to fight inflation

Greater clarity could arrive Friday, when Chair Jerome Powell is to speak at a Fed economics conference.

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
Supreme Court lets Illinois keep ban on sale of some semiautomatic guns for now

Supreme Court lets Illinois keep ban on sale of some semiautomatic guns for now

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal

Today, loneliness plays out on streaming TV all the time in the forms of shows like “Severance,” “Shrinking,” “Beef”