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As a young professional, Lauren Haynes has moved a number of times in the past decade for her job – from South Jersey to Philadelphia to California and, most recently, to Charlotte.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture directed states to roll back any steps taken to issue full food aid benefits to low-income Americans or risk financial penalties.

ATLANTA — A Georgia judge issued a blistering takedown of a rural county GOP committee that tried to impose a “mysterious Star Chamber-like” process to block candidates from qualifying to run as Republicans based on ideological tests. The 33-page ruling Friday dismantles the Catoosa County GOP’s attempt to bar four Republicans from seeking local office — and it hints at the legal perils ...

CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said someone fired at federal agents Saturday morning in the Little Village neighborhood, touching off a chaotic series of confrontations between agents and residents armed with whistles and bent on disrupting their operation. Both Chicago police and federal officials were seen making several arrests in the morning as agents, including Cmdr. ...

WASHINGTON – Bipartisan talks in the U.S. Senate to end the federal shutdown have taken a positive turn, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Saturday, with lawmakers working on deals to temporarily reopen the government and introduce three longer-term funding bills for some agencies.

WASHINGTON – U.S. airlines canceled 1,460 flights on Day 2 of government-mandated flight cuts across the country and thousands of flights were delayed, causing mounting travel woes as air-traffic-controller absences spiked amid the federal government shutdown.  

Officials in Irvington, New Jersey, had an idea. To raise awareness about the dangers of opioid use and addiction, the township could host concerts with popular R&B artists like Q Parker and Musiq Soulchild. It spent more than $600,000 in 2023 and 2024 to pay for the shows, even footing the bill for VIP trailers for the performers. It bought cotton candy and popcorn machines.

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the foreign meatpacking industry, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday shortly after President Donald Trump called for a probe into what he called “fishy” beef price increases.

CHICAGO – More than a dozen suburban Chicago mothers were arrested outside an immigration detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office, in a protest against the ongoing immigration crackdown in the area launched by U.S. President Donald Trump.

It was founded when Napoleon was still alive. And well before any American could even buy a typewriter. The Farmers’ Almanac, the annual tome of long-term weather predictions and homespun advice, is going out of business. Incongruously for one of America’s oldest publications, the editors posted the announcement on Instagram.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County officials are set to pull kratom and its synthetic extract, sometimes called 7-OH, from shelves immediately. Inspectors will be sent to retailers next week to begin red-tagging illegal products containing the compounds, the L.A. County Department of Public Health said in a release Friday morning. Shops that don’t comply could be hit with fines or other ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to withhold for now about $4 billion needed to fully fund a food aid program for 42 million low-income Americans this month amid the federal government shutdown.

Cassie Evins has ridden the tallest roller coaster at a Missouri amusement park more than 150 times over two decades. She often has a passing fear that she could fall, but until recently, she had always walked off the ride with a surge of adrenaline and a smile.