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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's state Board of Education banned "critical race theory" from public school classrooms Thursday, adopting new rules it said would shield schoolchildren from curricula ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of senators is eyeing an infrastructure deal with $579 billion in new spending as part of a $1 trillion package. It could be rolled out as soon as Thursday as nego...

ST. IVES, England (AP) - President Joe Biden called on global leaders Thursday to join him in sharing coronavirus vaccines with struggling nations around the world after he promised the U.S. would don...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina senators approved a bill on Thursday to bar women from getting abortions on the basis of race, sex or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.With the Senate's party-...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the U.S. and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar crimina...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that U.S. regulators extended the expiration date on millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by an extra six weeks.The company said a Food and D...

BOSTON (AP) - The chair of the Boston School Committee resigned Monday amid criticism of racially charged texts she shared with another member of the committee disparaging families of students, city o...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper told a state psychiatrist he wanted to destroy a building "Timothy McVeigh-style" and that there was "no defense" for the c...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A city engineer who fatally shot 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building in 2019 "was motivated by perceived workplace grievances" that "he fixated on for years," accordin...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on the contentious project after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Bide...