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Rain walloped the New York metropolitan area with a startling punch Friday, knocking out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranding drivers on highways,…
by JAKE OFFENHARTZ, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN AND JENNIFER PELTZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 30, 2023The Navy will begin randomly testing its special operations forces for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs beginning in November, taking a groundbre…
by LOLITA C. BALDOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 30, 2023Entrances to national parks will be blocked and thousands of park rangers will be furloughed if Congress doesn't reach a budget agreement this weekend, the Dep…
by ANITA SNOW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 30, 2023As Monette Ferguson braces for the looming government shutdown to strip funding from her Head Start program for disadvantaged children in Connecticut, she hark…
by HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 30, 2023FBI finds missing Proud Boys member
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports September 30, 2023Britney Spears knows she "spooked everyone" by twirling two large kitchen knives around her head and body. So, she posted another video of herself dancing with…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports September 30, 2023Marcialito Biol Benitez says he’s guilty of fraud charges tied to what prosecutors in California called a large-scale sham marriage agency that helped an estim…
September 30, 2023Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration officials anticipate about 70 state executive branch employees with salaries funded by the federal government…
by Michael R. Wickline September 30, 2023President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico but none in Alaska as it tries to navigate be…
by MATTHEW DALYand MATTHEW BROWN The Associated Press September 30, 2023The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitutio…
by MARK SHERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 30, 2023The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, less than two days before a new state law takes effect allowing victims of child …
by MICHELLE BOORSTEIN THE WASHINGTON POST September 30, 2023Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and…
by RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press September 29, 2023U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throug…
by The Associated Press September 29, 2023A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dug in Thursday, vowing he will not take up Senate legislation designed to ke…
by KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES The Associated Press September 29, 2023None of Arkansas' congressional delegates want a government shutdown.
by Alex Thomas September 29, 2023