The US Department of Health and Human Services says it has frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota, as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigate allegations of fraud, ...

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The "ball" is dropping twice to ring in 2026. Days ahead of the iconic Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop in New York City ...

Elementary schools across the Island marked their 67th day of school this week with playful takes on the expression that shows no sign of going away.

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The Drake Equation was meant to estimate how many intelligent civilizations should exist in our galaxy, but when he began plugging in the real numbers—star formation, habitable planets, life, ...

GLADSTONE, Ore. (KPTV) - Tens of thousands of Oregonians have signed petitions that could put a pause on the governor’s transportation bill tax increases until they can be voted on in the November ...

The gap between the richest and poorest Americans is widening in what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has called a “bifurcated economy,” as the cost of living skyrockets from housing to food ...

It all started one summer lunchtime in 1992 on the terrace outside the CERN cafeteria. If you had happened to be there at the physics research lab near Geneva at the time, you might have overheard ...

U.S. companies shed 32,000 jobs in September, according to the payroll processing company ADP, a surprising decline that adds to growing concerns about the rapidly weakening labor market. ADP, which ...

Farm-equipment manufacturer John Deere, an industry bellwether, is laying off hundreds of workers because of a slowdown in sales due to customer uncertainty as the Trump administration's tariffs take ...