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After some major bloodletting last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its biggest single-day percentage gain since 2009 on Monday, rising nearly 1,300 points or more than 5%. The...

BOSTON — Students and teachers at the private St. Raphael Academy in Rhode Island had recently returned from a study trip to Italy and two other countries last week when...

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Pisa can relax: The “Leaning Tower of Dallas” is just a memory. An 11-story office building in Texas that refused to be demolished for two weeks, turning it into an...

DALLAS — In a last-minute bid to unite the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, Senator Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg on Monday threw their support behind a presidential campaign...

WASHINGTON — President Trump pressed the pharmaceutical industry on Monday to “accelerate the development” of vaccines and therapies to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus and hinted at further travel...

WASHINGTON — She told the Fox News host Sean Hannity that refusing to celebrate President Trump’s America was “unforgivable” and tweeted angrily about the “ill-conceived” Senate impeachment trial. She recently...

New York City’s once-ubiquitous street pay phones may soon be a thing of the past. A spokesperson for New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s office told CNN about 30...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper has urged American military commanders overseas not to make any decisions related to the coronavirus that might surprise the White House or run...

Rice also called Biden “the strongest candidate to take on and defeat Trump” in a Twitter thread. “Above all, @JoeBiden is a Democrat and the strongest candidate to...