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BOSTON — An evening rodent walk showed the ways Boston is battling rats, by piloting different types of technology, pumping lethal carbon monoxide into the ground, and unleashing rat-killing dogs to try to eliminate the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the Senate tries to navigate its final business before the midterms, Republicans are facing another question — who will steer the ship once they’re done?

So far, they’re not straying far from their...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — The Mariposa-Yosemite Airport has been closed because of temporary flight restrictions in place around the Dome fire burning in Yosemite National Park.

The county-owned airport, which sits 18 miles from...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the Trump administration resume its aggressive policy of deporting people to countries other than their own, seeking emergency action on a pillar of...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro are deadlocked less than two weeks before Brazil’s election, a new poll showed, following fresh revelations about the challenger’s ties to a jailed banker at ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston issued a coastal storm warning as a rare early fall nor’easter spins toward the city, expected to last Friday through the weekend and pose a risk of coastal flooding, high winds, power line damage, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to permanently improve the “overcrowded, squalid and degrading” cells where undocumented New Yorkers are detained at 26 Federal ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday he isn’t pursuing a moratorium on new data centers in Illinois, arguing he can’t impose one on his own and that he would rather see lawmakers pass tough regulations on the facilities ...Read more

WASHINGTON — China’s president issued a call from the White House on Thursday for artificial intelligence to remain “under human control” as the world’s two superpowers race for technological supremacy.

Xi ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citing his violence against native tribes in the 1840s, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is moving forward with a plan to remove the name of famed explorer John C. Fremont — a former U.S. senator...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Xi Jinping addressed their intense competition over artificial intelligence on Thursday during a summit aimed at keeping ties between the world’s largest economies on track.

How the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Minnesota, and the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis over state law requiring a 30-day waiting period for a firearm purchase, arguing the statute violates the Second Amendment.

The...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democratic leaders filed a lawsuit Thursday aiming to prevent the Trump administration from following through on statements that they are considering sending armed federal agents to polling ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Sixteen people, including four juveniles in a car reported stolen, were hospitalized after the car crashed into a Maryland Transit Administration bus while officers followed it Thursday afternoon in East ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Mayo Clinic is paying $50,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit, filed after the Rochester-based health system declined to exempt a security guard from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious ...Read more

The Clark County coroner’s office said it has investigated 260 deaths where heat was a factor so far this year.

In a Thursday update, the first since the end of July, the number shot up dramatically from 46.

The toll ...Read more

A back-door discount pharmacy arrangement that millions of Americans use to fill prescriptions in Canada and other international drugstores will close next month.

Effective Oct. 22, the Trump administration will tighten ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 100 people, including several celebrities and local elected officials, were arrested at protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the U.N. ...Read more

DENVER — Charges filed against four demonstrators arrested during a July protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Arapahoe County will be dismissed Friday, the 18th Judicial District ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Trump’s ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administration’s most severe attack yet on the Washington...Read more