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ATLANTA — The U.S. Senate gave final approval this week to legislation honoring former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn by renaming the tiny post office in their hometown of Plains.

The measure by the ...Read more

It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers.

But nearly four years after the ...Read more

A recent immigration surge brought newcomers to every state this year, helping to offset a continued drop in U.S. births while contributing to a national upswing of about 3.3 million new residents, according to new U.S. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A sliver of pavement under an I-4 overpass is the place a half dozen unsheltered men call home.

They sleep in a group to look out for each other’s safety and ensure their few belongings aren’t stolen...Read more

NEW DELHI, India — At the outset of 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was riding a wave of international acclaim and anticipating an election campaign that looked like such a formality he talked of a thousand-year ...Read more

MIAMI — In Cuba the population is fighting shortages of food, fuel and medicine while a collapsing electrical grid that resulted in three nationwide blackouts this year continues to leave many people in the dark.

In ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Washington is full of people who obsess about the daily news cycle and who is “winning” it. But looking back on her 24 years in the Senate and nearly half a century in politics, Sen. Debbie Stabenow said...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday commuted the prison sentence of former Kansas City police Detective Eric DeValkenaere, the first Kansas City officer ever convicted of killing a Black man, an ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — More than a year ago, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker warned Missouri Gov. Mike Parson that pardoning former Kansas City police Detective Eric DeValkenaere, the city’s first officer ever ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Board of Education voted unanimously Friday to fire Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez, clearing the way for the mayor to install a new leader for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden set a new record for federal judicial confirmations in a single term, when Serena Murillo became his 235th life-tenured federal judge confirmed by the U.S. Senate as lawmakers worked into...Read more

NEW YORK — Stepping out of the Port Authority bus terminal late in the evening on Nov. 24, authorities say, Luigi Mangione took a taxi to the New York Hilton Midtown, where UnitedHealth Group Inc. planned its annual ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools chief Pedro Martinez filed an injunction in Cook County Court and asked for a temporary restraining order to prevent the school board’s possible firing of him Friday night.

“The ...Read more

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The debate over the rights of transgender athletes to compete in school sports intensified this week in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, as two Republican lawmakers called for the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The now disgraced and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi must surrender to federal authorities early next year for a medical evaluation at a federal prison in North Carolina, a judge ruled Friday.

The decision...Read more

OTTAWA, Canada — A key former ally of Justin Trudeau’s said he would vote to topple the government, a move that would likely plunge the country into an election early next year unless the prime minister seeks a ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge on Friday blocked a series of long-standing restrictions on abortion, but kept in place a licensing requirement that could delay providers from immediately restoring access to the ...Read more