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Federal workers who have gone a month without getting paid during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history expressed relief Friday that a deal had been reached to end the impasse, but are worri...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says he'll sign legislation shortly to reopen shuttered government departments for three weeks - until Feb. 15.Trump's action would end what has become a recor...

NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein won a judge's approval Friday to overhaul the defense team in his rape and sexual assault case, replacing his bulldog New York City attorney with a four-person squad that's...

NEW YORK - The Federal Aviation Administration reported delays in air travel Friday because of a "slight increase in sick leave" at two East Coast air traffic control facilities. The delays come as a ...

TOKYO - Human rights and LGBT activists on Friday denounced a ruling by Japan's Supreme Court upholding a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their g...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Some U.S. diplomats in Venezuela headed for the Caracas airport early Friday amid a political power struggle between President Nicolas Maduro and an opposition leader who has decl...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to release a proposal to impose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with net worths of $50 million or more, according to documents provided by her presidential camp...

DETROIT - Sweethearts - those chalky little candies with messages on them - won't be on store shelves this Valentine's Day.The New England Confectionary Co. - or Necco - had been making the popular ca...

WASHINGTON - A Senate committee has subpoenaed President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, his attorney said Thursday, and Cohen intends to comply with the interview demand related ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A splintered Senate swatted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown on Thursday, leaving President Donald Trump and Congress ...