WASHINGTON — Democrats received a clear message in 2024: A strong labor market isn’t enough to win elections. That reality could shape how the government responds to the next economic downturn.

Scarred by the long, slow recovery following the 2007-09 recession, President Joe Biden and his advisers banked their political fortunes on going ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The widening U.S. bird flu outbreak has made its way to Maryland, which has counted two cases on commercial poultry farms — one in Caroline County and another in Queen Anne’s County — since the start of the year.

Health experts say the general public is at little risk of exposure and illness, thus far. While human infections...Read more

Georgia officials suspended the sale of poultry in the state after confirming a positive case of bird flu in a commercial operation, threatening one of the state’s prime industries.

The case, found Friday in Elbert County, northeast of Atlanta, is the first confirmed instance of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or bird flu, detected in a ...Read more

A new contingent of 217 additional police officers from Kenya arrived in Port-au-Prince on Saturday aboard a chartered airplane escorted by the U.S. military, after months of uncertainty about whether President William Ruto would continue to field cops for the struggling mission in Haiti, where gang violence last year reached record levels.

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a U.S. law that threatens to shut down the popular platform as soon as Sunday.

Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that he’ll “probably announce it on Monday” — the day of his inauguration to a...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Progressive activists in Congress have put mounting pressure on President Joe Biden to direct the archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment — which would become the first explicit mention of women in the U.S. Constitution.

When Biden announced Friday that he believed the sweeping ...Read more

Tom Homan has crisscrossed America since President-elect Donald Trump named the former cop and immigration official his border czar, promising “shock and awe” alongside the biggest deportation the U.S. has ever seen.

But wherever Homan goes, from New York City to Texas, he’s zeroed in on two cities he plans to target in the first days of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another round of fire weather could last for much of next week in Southern California, bringing new dangers as Pacific Palisades, Altadena and surrounding communities struggle to assess the damage of devastating wildfires earlier this month.

"The bottom line is: we're in uncharted territories this deep into the winter, or rainy ...Read more

Tom Homan has crisscrossed America since President-elect Donald Trump named the former cop and immigration official his border czar, promising “shock and awe” alongside the biggest deportation the U.S. has ever seen.

But wherever Homan goes, from New York City to Texas, he’s zeroed in on two cities he plans to target in the first days of...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the nation braces for potential policy shifts under President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” mantra, the nation’s most populous state and largest health care market is preparing for a few changes of its own.

With supermajorities in both houses, Democrats in the California Legislature passed �...Read more

A few miles south of the Grand Canyon, thousands of tons of uranium ore, reddish-gray, blue and radioactive, are piled up high in a clearing in the forest.

They’ve been there for months, stranded by a standoff between the mining company that dug them deep out of the ground, Energy Fuels Inc., and the leader of the Navajo Nation, Buu Nygren.

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New state laws taking effect this month aim to confront the nation’s ongoing housing crisis in various ways, from expanding housing options, to speeding up the development process, to protecting struggling tenants from eviction.

Similar bills are in store for this year’s legislative sessions.

The new laws include measures to combat ...Read more

A historic rate of apartment building is starting to make a difference in Sun Belt rents, but most tenants are still paying way more than they did earlier in the decade and rents are still rising in many Northeast and Midwest states.

The fact that rents are starting to drop as more apartment supply comes online, yet still remain perilously high...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — High-profile mass shootings at the Crown Center shopping center and the Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally at Union Station heralded a violent start to the year for Kansas City in 2024, shocking the public with their brazen nature and widespread impact. Indeed, the latter shooting captured national attention, bred community ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — These men have dedicated their careers to stopping people's homes from burning down, but when the Eaton fire arrived on their doorstep, even their decades of firefighting expertise were no match for its wrath.

"I've never seen anything like this; it's like battling a hurricane, but instead of water it is flames," said Los ...Read more