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WASHINGTON (AP) - Mayor Muriel Bowser's decision to ease mask requirements in the nation's capital has sparked a public debate about timing, with the majority of the D.C. Council pleading with her to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government on Friday moved to open up COVID-19 booster shots to all adults, expanding efforts to get ahead of rising coronavirus cases that experts fear could snowball into ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution sold at Sotheby's in New York for $43.2 million, a record price for a document or book sold at auction.The buyer, hedge fund manager Kenn...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland became the latest state on Friday to expand eligibility for COVID-19 booster shots to all adults before the federal government has authorized them.People 18 and older wh...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over guns, vigilan...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats brushed aside months-long divisions and pushed their expansive social and environment bill through a sharply divided House on Friday, as President Joe Biden and his party m...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that Arbery did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at t...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial began deliberating for a third day Thursday with a new defense request for a mistrial hanging over the politically and racially fraught...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Before her daughter's birth, she spent weeks in bed. Another difficult pregnancy would be worse as she tried to care for her toddler.Faced with that possibility, the 28-year-old Te...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support ...