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President Biden began his State of the Union speech Thursday night by invoking another president’s address to Congress 83 years ago. In what became known as the “Four Freedoms” speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to rally Americans to support European democracies facing annihilation from Nazi Germany.

Most people want to end the twice-yearly switch, but recent legislation to permanently stay on either standard or daylight saving time hasn't been able to become federal or state law.  

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, to announce his resignation and a political transition in a series of phone calls that took place Thursday and were described as “tense” by senior State Department officials.

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, a one-time American ally, was convicted in a New York court Friday of helping drug traffickers send tons of cocaine to the United States in exchange for hefty bribes that fueled his political career.

The Republican National Committee on Friday selected new leaders who were hand-picked by former President Donald Trump, a move expected to tighten the expected nominee's hold on the party's machinery before the general election.

Apple Inc., facing mounting pressure from regulators in the European Union, has reversed a decision to ban Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. from offering its own iPhone app marketplace in the region.

High school students scrambled into the auditorium Friday morning at Gonzaga Preparatory.

Sergio Florian was out for an evening run up a mountain on Oahu’s east side when something caught his eye: a white and gray dog curled up near the edge of a 1,000-foot cliff. The dog was in distress.

Donald Trump on Friday secured a bond for more than $91 million to cover the judgment in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case while he appeals.

A lengthy Defense Department review of U.S. government activities related to “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” more commonly known as UFOs, has found no evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth or that authorities have recovered crashed alien spacecraft and are hiding them from the public.

Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to the Golden State. No more.

Mark Anderson, a music teacher at East Junior High School, has displayed a pride flag in his Boise classroom since 2019 — to him, a symbol of a safe space. He said one parent thanked him for the flag, because it meant their child had a welcoming place in the school. “Students see me as a safe person to come to, someone that will not judge them for whatever they need to speak to me about,” said ...

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Legendary manga artist Akira Toriyama, the creator of the internationally popular “Dragon Ball” series and character designer on the “Dragon Quest” video games, died Friday after suffering an acute subdural hematoma, his Bird Studio announced Thursday. He was 68.

Walt Disney Co. has been accused in a lawsuit of systematically underpaying maintenance workers at its Southern California hotels.