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WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will go public with its findings in a prime-time hearing next week, the start of what lawmakers hope will be a high-profile airing of the causes and consequences of the domestic attack on the U.S. government. Lawmakers […]

Teachers in Ohio are frustrated after lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would allow them and other school staff to carry guns in school safety zones, with little training. The bill overrules an Ohio Supreme Court decision from last year that required teachers to receive gun training equivalent to the […]

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s legislature is poised to ban people under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle, a major change to state firearm laws pushed through less than three weeks after an 18-year-old used one of the guns to kill 10 people at a supermarket in […]

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Colorado man pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Vermont to kidnapping a man who was later found shot to death in a snowbank in 2018 in what prosecutors allege is a murder-for-hire case stemming from a financial dispute. Federal prosecutors say they believe Jerry […]

FILE – Jose Luis Gonzalez walks through a ravine known as “La Raja de Rosa,” where people from Barrio Patron get their water supply in Morovis, Puerto Rico, Dec. 22, 2017, three months after Hurricane Maria hit. Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company was hit by a federal lawsuit on […]

NEW ORLEANS — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting an average oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the agency said Thursday. But that 35-year average is still nearly triple the goal for reducing the area with too little oxygen for marine animals to survive. […]

Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for defrauding Stormy Daniels, the client who made him a fixture on cable and a speculative candidate for public office for a brief time during the Trump administration. “It has been three years since she discovered what Mr. Avenatti has […]

AVON LAKE, Ohio — Ford will add 6,200 factory jobs in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio as it prepares to build more electric vehicles and roll out two redesigned combustion-engine models. The company says it will invest $3.7 billion in the three states between now and 2026. It also will convert […]

Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. She can’t call them, either. But she can write. In one small bit of normalcy, Griner has been able to receive emails and letters from WNBA players during her detainment in Russia. Hundreds of emails have been sent by players to an […]

BOSTON — Two manholes exploded in downtown Boston on Thursday morning, shattering a window, forcing the evacuation of two buildings and sending one person to the hospital. The explosions were reported at about 8:30 a.m. near the High Street and Federal Street area in the Financial District. There was no […]