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With an unusual tone of urgency, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel defended Chinese-style reforms he said must be implemented without delay, including allowing foreign investment in the country’s private sector and ...Read more

On the north end of Seattle's waterfront, in a building once made famous by MTV, there's a growing artificial intelligence startup.

Yoodli, which develops AI-powered speech-coaching software, could have been based in San ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s biggest cities and counties are changing their master plans to comply with a state law that takes effect this year, but new language alone may not have much tangible impact.

Assembly Bill 96, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Senate on Thursday passed a set of bills that raise taxes on commercial health insurance plans and software programs and end cap some corporate tax credits, with the chamber’s ...Read more

DETROIT — FBI counterterrorism investigators have arrested a Macomb County man they said is linked to a vow to commit a mass shooting and wrote "There is no God" on the stock of a rifle in a nod to Oxford High School ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants to remove some of the stigma from testosterone treatment.

The agency, through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is asking manufacturers to take off warnings that...Read more

CHICAGO — If you have been anywhere near the Obama Presidential Center this week, anywhere at all near Jackson Park and Stony Island Avenue, leading up to the opening ceremonies on Thursday, you have seen the checkpoints...Read more

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers-endorsed Michigan candidates for governor and U.S. Senate, Jocelyn Benson and Abdul El-Sayed, emphasized the economic challenges of families in an appeal to the Detroit-based union’s ...Read more

DETROIT — United Auto Workers delegates on Thursday voted in a narrow decision to amend their constitution prohibiting investment in Israel Bonds, a mark of a sea change in the union's politics, according to experts.

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WASHINGTON — Senators moved ahead with a bipartisan housing bill this week, paving the way for a final vote once they return from the Juneteenth long weekend. But on another topic, they seemed to go not forward, but back...Read more

Vice President JD Vance aggressively defended the controversial peace deal with Iran, and warned Israel not to criticize President Donald Trump over the agreement.

In a White House press briefing, Vance embraced his new ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down an initiative petition to lower the state income tax from 5% to 4%, stating that a summary of the proposal authored by the Attorney General’s office and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The criminal case against the chief engineer of the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge could be dismissed three years from now under an agreement with the government, entered into federal ...Read more

CHICAGO — While Jackie Mills waited for the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center to start, she found herself reminiscing on former President Barack Obama’s first inauguration.

Her entire family ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The finish line on the overdue state budget is in sight.

Millions of North Carolinians await a new state budget, which funds raises for teachers and state employees and pays for programs and capital ...Read more

U.S. regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country’s grids while simultaneously attempting to slow surging utility bills that have angered Americans.

The Federal ...Read more

Investors in the ever-hotter AI stock rally must suddenly consider a risk with the potential to be even more damaging than high valuations and big spending: Politics getting in the way.

The U.S. administration’s move to...Read more

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority on Thursday proposed its first passenger toll hike since 2012. The proposal, which would increase passenger vehicle tolls by roughly 45 cents for I-Pass users, comes on the heels ...Read more

Daveigh Chase’s longtime friend, who also previously served as her manager, is warning fans against contributing to a GoFundMe page launched shortly before her death.

“A man claiming to be Daveigh’s boyfriend has ...Read more

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce did plan to tie the knot this past weekend in Rhode Island, after all.

The 36-year-old lovers’ pivot to saying “I do” at Madison Square Garden over Fourth of July weekend ...Read more