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HARTFORD, Conn. — On the day after their election victories, Connecticut Democrats said Wednesday that their next step will involve trying to make healthcare more affordable at a time of rising costs.

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LOS ANGELES — A major sand replenishment is headed to the San Clemente beach along the long-imperiled railway line, part of a large shoreline work package aimed at fortifying the vulnerable railroad while also protecting...Read more

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña submitted his resignation Thursday after the collapse of a major commercial bank with ties to his government plunged the South American nation into turmoil.

Regulators seized Ueno Bank ...Read more

Data center opposition had been building across the country, one moratorium or blocked project at a time. Then, virtually overnight, the midterm election tilted a broad swath of the regulatory map against the AI buildout. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain is running to keep her post as chair of the House Republican Conference next term, but she faces some competition after Democrats' rout of GOP candidates in this week's ...Read more

Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sánchez, the award-winning founder and director of the independent news outlet 14ymedio, in Havana on Thursday morning amid the latest government crackdown on independent ...Read more

The fears had shadowed Wall Street off and on for months. Then, all at once, everyone rushed for the exits.

The stock-market rout on Thursday, which began soon after the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, ...Read more

First the AI whiz kids were humbled. Then came the macro shocks. Credit scares followed.

Soon, nowhere would be safe for hedge funds. Pain cascaded across the industry in October, as a broad tech selloff collided with a ...Read more

A King County, Washington, Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that Albertsons violated the law by dispensing a high volume of opioid prescriptions while ignoring signs that prescriptions were illegitimate or being abused....Read more

Two Sacramento hotels have become staging grounds for confrontations between federal immigration agents and activists protesting their presence in the city. The protesters recently gained a vocal ally in City Councilmember...Read more

Matt Damon regrets rejecting a role in Ted.

The 56-year-old actor has revealed that he was offered a lead role in Ted, the 2012 comedy movie - but he ultimately declined the opportunity, before Mark Wahlberg accepted the ...Read more

Sir Tom Jones feared his life was "over" after being admitted to hospital with flu.

The 86-year-old pop star was left fearing for his life after being admitted to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, ...Read more

Glenn Close is "lazy" with her beauty regime.

The 79-year-old actress has never obsessed about her appearance, explaining that she's not a "classic beauty".

Glenn told Harper's Bazaar magazine: "I'm lazy. I can't stand ...Read more

BOSTON — An 18-year-old Tewksbury man who law enforcement says has described mass shooters as his “heroes” and advocated a race war faces federal charges alleging that he threatened to kill President Donald Trump.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas’ newly elected governor, who will take office in January, pledged to fire Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Morath and to stop existing state takeovers of school districts such as Fort ...Read more

LANSING — Michigan House Republicans chose a new leader Thursday, Nov. 5, to replace House Speaker Matt Hall in the new year after the GOP lost 11 House seats and majority control of the lower chamber in Tuesday's "blue ...Read more

At the direction of Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, three competitive statewide races are being audited in accordance with a state law that requires reviews of results in races that are within one percentage point....Read more

NEW YORK — Judges hearing an appeal of Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for concealing a hush-money payment to a porn star focused on whether prosecutors properly applied campaign-finance law to his conduct.

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DENVER — Two days after polls closed, a measure restricting which teams transgender athletes may play on has been approved by Colorado voters, while a second measure that would ban gender-affirming surgeries for minors ...Read more

DENVER — Before Tuesday’s blue wave election, the one bright spot beleaguered Colorado Republicans could point to was that they had as many representatives in Congress from the Centennial State as Democrats did.

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