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By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP and ERIC TUCKER

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A passenger jet collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.

By CHRIS MEGERIAN

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives.

By PATRICK WHITTLE and MICHAEL CASEY

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by surprised residents of states hundreds of miles away.

By MELANIE LIDMAN and AREF TUFAHA

By ZEKE MILLER,CHRIS MEGERIANand MICHELLE L. PRICE

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president Monday, returning to power with a promise to end America’s decline and to “completely and totally reverse” the actions of the man who drove him from office four years ago.

By CORA LEWIS

NEW YORK — Lenders will no longer be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. for mortgages, car loans or business loans, according to a rule the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized this month.

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEF FEDERMAN

By BILL BARROW and CHRIS MEGERIAN

WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.

By FATIMA HUSSEIN

WASHINGTON — A day after he was in the nation’s capital to witness President Joe Biden sign into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, UMass professor Max Page said the remarkable achievement will...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Teddy Stiga scored on a breakaway at 8:04 of 3-on-3 overtime to give the United States a 4-3 victory over Finland on Sunday night in the world junior hockey championship game.The Boston College winger — a healthy scratch at the start...

By ERIC TUCKER, JIM MUSTIAN, KEVIN McGILL and JACK BROOK

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing 10 people as he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police, authorities said.More than 30 people were...

By TED ANTHONY

SHARPSBURG, Pa. — When did we know for sure?Was it April, when Nature Made introduced its pickle-flavored gummy vitamins? Was it November, when Petco’s “Pickle Mania” promotion offered 26 different pickle-themed toys for dogs and cats? Maybe it was...

By BILL BARROW

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was...

By SARAH PARVINI, GARANCE BURKE AND JESSE BEDAYN

President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence...

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is working to uncover eight angels that were hidden under layers of paint for more than a century.The painted angels — with round childlike...

By WILL WEISSERT and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken...

By REBECCA SANTANA

NEW YORK — The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead, then an officer’s voice crackled over the radio.After watching for about two hours, he said, “I think that’s...

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including once with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress, as lawmakers released the conclusions of a...

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and BASSEM MROUE

JERUSALEM — Israel approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Tuesday, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.Israeli warplanes meanwhile carried...

By JILL COLVIN and ROB GILLIES

President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products...