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WASHINGTON, Aug 5 – A U.S. judge early on Thursday ordered the Biden administration to quickly respond to a legal challenge to a new eviction moratorium put in place by...

Wildfires in the West have spread so rapidly amid continuing dry, gusty conditions that a Northern California town has been destroyed. Firefighters had made progress on containing the Dixie Fire,...

WASHINGTON, Aug 5 – The U.S. Senate’s $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill does not pay for itself and would increase federal budget deficits by $256 billion over 10 years, the...

NEW YORK, Aug 5 – The New York State Assembly impeachment investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo is nearing completion and the chamber’s judiciary committee has asked his lawyers to submit...

GREENVILLE, California, Aug 5 – The main thoroughfare in a historic California gold-rush town was in smoldering ruins, officials said on Thursday, hours after the state’s largest wildfire engulfed the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ ban on mask mandates faced new legal challenges — including from a school district where hundreds of staff and students are quarantining because of a...

A North Carolina man is sending a stark message to unvaccinated neighbors and passersby, installing a large skeleton and tombstones in his yard to drive home the grim reality of...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As he recovers from a breakthrough infection of the coronavirus, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he has urged former President Donald Trump to press his supporters...

WASHINGTON, Aug 5 – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of the largest U.S. labor organization and a key figure in Democratic politics, has died at age 72, representatives for the...

MIAMI — Two North Carolina men accused of raping a 24-year-old tourist who overdosed during spring break in Miami Beach now face first-degree murder charges. On Wednesday, a grand jury...