The Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades — bipartisan legislation designed to improve housing affordability ...

Delegates including Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) stand as the national anthem is sung during the closing session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, ...

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Before making her upcoming sixth album, the country star returned to her small-town Texas home and discovered the power of in-between spaces. "I found a lot of clarity there," she says.

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Ford struggled to find his footing in Hollywood before being cast as Han Solo in Star Wars. Now 83, he plays a therapist in the Apple TV series Shrinking: "I really do love the work," he says.

A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts ...

Israel targeted Iran's oil facilities for the first time early Sunday, with videos showing huge flames lighting up the sky, ...

The price of crude oil briefly neared $120 a barrel Monday as Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei the supreme leader and then ...

Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

More than a week of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran has dragged in global powers, upended the world's energy and transport sectors, and brought chaos to usually peaceful areas of the region.

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