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The FAA has strict guidelines for packing portable chargers — and a major carrier just announced a new policy limiting their use in the cabin.
The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering insurgencies’ underlying causes, instead ...
In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May. Businesses ...
You’ve heard of twofers. Kenya Hutton is a “threefer.” His parents are immigrants, he’s a Black man and he’s gay — at a ...
State legislative sessions around the country are coming to a close, and fights over public versus charter school funding and cell phones were among the biggest policy battles this year.
Religious services, concerts and vigils are set to mark Sunday’s fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer even as police reform and civil rights activists face ...
The following episode of The Story Behind the AP Story contains sound and descriptions that some listeners may find graphic ...
Voters in Venezuela are choosing lawmakers, governors and other officials Sunday in polling being held against a backdrop of heightened government repression and ...
One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away ...
The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment ...
Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners on Sunday, the third and last part of a major exchange that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed ...
The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Sunday. The missile triggered air raid sirens in Jerusalem and other areas. There were ...