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NEW YORK — Another day, another huge lottery jackpot gets larger still. There was no winner in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, the 23rd straight drawing without a jackpot winner in the ga...

  (CNN) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday blamed Iran’s “enemies” for stirring up unrest in the country, as the death toll from days of anti-gover...

  DALLAS (AP) – Southwest Airlines says it will pay all employees a $1,000 cash bonus next week and order more planes as a result of the recent tax law. Southwest said Tuesday that it exerc...

 OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – A lawyer for a Canadian man recently freed with his American wife and children after years of being held hostage in Afghanistan says his client has been arrested and...

 BEL AIR, Md. (AP) – A man accused of fatally shooting three co-workers and wounding three other people has been indicted in Maryland.The Harford County State’s Attorney’s offic...

 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Sen. Al Franken has officially resigned from the Senate.The Minnesota Democrat formally resigned Tuesday afternoon. It comes nearly a month after he announced his pl...

 WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah says he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the U.S. Senate.Hatch, 83, says he’s always been a fighter...

WASHINGTON — Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain plans to return to Washington soon, sources close to the senator tell CNN.McCain was diagnosed with a brain tumor in July. In December, it was an...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. dollar started 2018 on the wrong foot, hitting its lowest point since mid-September.In fact, the greenback lost value for almost all of 2017. It plummeted despite factors t...

WASHINGTON — A US service member was killed on Monday in the Achin District of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, the US military said. The service member’s name is not being immediat...