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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...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An internal investigation has determined that the decision to forcibly clear racial justice protesters from an area in front of the White House last summer was not influenced by then...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not. Reporters traveling to the United Kingdom for President Joe Biden's first overseas trip were d...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Vinyl record sales surged during the pandemic as music lovers fattened their collections, and audio cassettes began a comeback as well, keeping business spinning at record store...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The rich really are different from you and me: They're better at dodging the tax collector.Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011. Tesla founder Elon Musk's in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - For months, President Joe Biden has laid out goal after goal for taming the coronavirus pandemic and then exceeded his own benchmarks. Now, though, the U.S. is on pace to fall short ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A pipeline company CEO made no apologies Tuesday for his decisions to abruptly halt fuel distribution for much of the East Coast and pay millions to a criminal gang in Russia as he f...