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As he assembles his team for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump is entitled to some latitude, even for his more unconventional picks. Yet not all executive-branch positions are created equal. Senate Republicans ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- On a recent cloudy winter Sunday, Peg McCormick, 72, was picking up a pair of sunglasses at the Warby Parker in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis for an upcoming snow-escaping trip to Mexico.

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News that President-elect Donald Trump’s team wants to hack away at the forbidding tangle of U.S. bank regulation is welcome in the abstract. In practice, though, much will depend on the details. The goal should be ...Read more

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while attending a home-buying class. The new mom’s plans to buy a house stalled.

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China abruptly ousted two military lawmakers from its national parliament without explanation, as a purge of key personnel in the upper echelons of the nation’s defense establishment shows no sign of easing.

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President-elect Donald Trump wants a Miami-Dade County commissioner to serve as ambassador to Panama. The nomination comes as Trump is threatening to retake control of the Panama Canal over fees charged U.S. ships in the ...Read more

In the weeks after Ballot Measure 1 passed by a hefty margin, many Alaska employers are beginning to understand its impacts.

The measure, effective July 1, will raise the minimum wage and establish the state's first sick ...Read more

Beyoncé lit up an NFL stage on Christmas Day, performing a medley of hits from her newest album, “Cowboy Carter,” at halftime of a game between the Baltimore Ravens and her hometown Houston Texans.

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Five board members from the ed tech group Massachusetts Computer Using Educators recently resigned following a MassCUE conference when speakers made “dangerous” anti-Israel and Holocaust comments.

The Herald last week...Read more

For people living with debt, getting back into the black can be a significant burden.

According to a new report, Virginia falls short in setting up guardrails for debtors to avoid being pushed further into poverty. This ...Read more

Stormy seas along the California coast calmed a bit for the Christmas holiday, but powerful ocean waves were expected to return to the Bay Area for the rest of the week.

Waves up to 30 feet high were expected to crash ...Read more

Honda Motor Co. absorbing Nissan Motor Co. could give the two struggling Japanese brands the scale they need to take on China’s BYD Co., sales figures released Wednesday show.

Honda, which earlier this week sketched out...Read more

BOSTON — A local Massachusetts police officer “likely saved a Christmas headache” after he discovered roughly 80 Amazon packages left behind in the woods, days before the holiday.

Early Sunday morning, Lakeville ...Read more

The soon-to-be 47th president of the United States wished almost everyone a Merry Christmas on Wednesday, even the “Radical Left Lunatics” and the “wonderful soldiers of China.”

Presidents and politicians have ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs and Luigi Mangione spent Christmas Day inside the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where one report online said cornish hen and green beans were on the menu.

However, a ...Read more

Russia launched a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, prompting the country’s grid operator to limit power supplies on Christmas Day.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram...Read more

CHICAGO — A body was found in a wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hawaii, authorities said.

The body was found in the well of one of the main landing gears after flight 202 landed at Maui’s ...Read more

MIAMI — Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto Florida’s shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs.

The season peaks ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden signed a bill this week aimed at preventing hazing on college campuses and building transparency around hazing incidents — the first federal law of its kind.

Though most states have ...Read more

Alleged mass-murderer Bryan Kohberger was reportedly investigated in connection with another home invasion attack that occurred not far from where he’s accused of slaying four University of Idaho students in an off-...Read more