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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector employers on Nov. 1, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday in another sign of the city's gradual return to pre-pandemic ...

BEIJING (AP) - China's government on Monday criticized President Joe Biden's statement that American forces would defend Taiwan if Beijing tries to invade as a violation of U.S. commitments about the ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - According to prosecutors, Ryan Sawyer Mays was a young, arrogant sailor angry about being assigned to deck duty after failing to become a Navy SEAL - and he made the Navy pay in a big...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. leaders from President Joe Biden on down are being careful not to declare a premature victory after a Ukrainian offensive forced Russian troops into a messy retreat in...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is facing a tough challenge from the secretary of state in Tuesday's Democratic primary as he seeks his first full term in office after ta...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has stopped talking so much about inflation worries.His remarks in Columbus, Ohio, in suburban Washington at a Democratic fundraiser, at a Cab...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is launching a new initiative to encourage biotech production and research in the U.S., the latest move by the White House to boost domestic industry.Bi...

New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware will host the final multistate primary elections of the 2022 midterm season Tuesday, with contests to select candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats desperately needed the vote of Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to get their signature legislative priority across the finish. So they did what Washington does b...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The heads of the nation's two largest rail unions said Sunday that the freight railroads' move to begin delaying some shipments ahead of this week's looming strike deadline is only ...