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By COREY WILLIAMS

DETROIT — Tysen Benz was at home when he saw social media posts indicating that his 13-year-old girlfriend had committed suicide. The posts were a prank, but the 11-year-old boy apparently believed them.Moments later, his mother found him hanging by...

By VIVIAN SALAMA and JULIE PACE

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Friday he has developed an “outstanding” relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting with the leader of a nation Trump has criticized as a menace to the United States.The widely...

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and JOSH BOAK

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers cut back sharply on hiring in March, yet Friday’s jobs report still had much to be encouraged about, including a drop in the unemployment rate to 4.5 percent, the lowest in a decade.Employers added just 98,000 jobs, the...

By ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — After weeks of turmoil, the Senate confirmed Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch as the Supreme Court’s youngest justice Friday, filling a 14-month vacancy after the death of Antonin Scalia and restoring a rightward tilt that could last for...

By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN

STOCKHOLM — A hijacked beer truck plowed into pedestrians at a central Stockholm department store Friday, killing four people, injuring 15 and sending screaming shoppers scattering in panic in what Sweden’s prime minister called a terrorist attack.A...

By ZEINA KARAM and DAN PERRY

BEIRUT — President Donald Trump’s 59-missile message to Syria — the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated — may well resonate with Bashar Assad.But to truly change the game in a catastrophic, six-year civil war, the U.S. will have to show...

By SUSAN HAIGH

HARTFORD, Conn. — Leaders of Connecticut’s two federally recognized tribes met Thursday with legislative leaders, trying to assure them that authorizing the state’s first casino on non-tribal land will not risk the hundreds of millions of dollars the...

By HOPE YEN

WASHINGTON — Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites.Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous year and the highest in three...

By HANNAH DREIER

CARACAS, Venezuela — Tens of thousands of Venezuelans shut down much of the capital on Thursday and clashed with police to protest what they call an attempted coup by the socialist administration.It was the largest opposition demonstration the country...

By ANDREW TAYLOR and EMILY SWANSON

WASHINGTON — Most Americans oppose funding President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and even many of his supporters reject his proposed budget cuts to scientific and medical research, according to poll released Thursday by The...

By ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — In a confrontation that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations, Republicans tore up the Senate’s voting rules Thursday to allow Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch to ascend to the high court over furious Democratic objections.Democrats...

By MICHAEL TARM

CHICAGO — Companies cannot discriminate against LGBT employees in the workplace because of their sexual orientation, a federal appeals court said, in a ruling that a gay rights group called a “game changer.”The 8-to-3 decision Tuesday by the full 7th...

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early in the season, forcing vessels to slow to a crawl or take detours of hundreds of miles.Experts...

By ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats elevated their attacks against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Wednesday, portraying him as an ally of the powerful and an enemy of the weak as an explosive showdown loomed on the Senate floor. Republicans...

By MARLEY JAY

NEW YORK — A big rally in U.S. stocks evaporated Wednesday as the Federal Reserve appeared to struggle with questions related to inflation and government policy and suggested it might start trimming its balance sheet later in the year.Stocks had...

By JOSH LEDERMAN

WASHINGTON — His expression grave and his words emphatic, President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday the deadly chemical attack in Syria had crossed “many, many lines” and abruptly changed his views of Syrian President Bashar Assad. But he refused...

By SARAH EL DEEB

BEIRUT — The grief-stricken father cradled his 9-month-old twins, Aya and Ahmed, each in the crook of an arm. Stroking their hair, he choked back tears, mumbling, “Say goodbye, baby, say goodbye” to their lifeless bodies.Then Abdel Hameed Alyousef...

By DENISE LAVOIE

BOSTON — Former Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas Finneran must forfeit his $34,000-a-year pension because of his conviction on an obstruction of justice charge, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday.The Supreme Judicial Court agreed with a...

By BOB SALSBERG

BOSTON — A Harvard University professor who introduced Americans to the concept of designated drivers to deter drunken driving is now taking on the deadly problem of motorists distracted by cellphones and other electronics.Jay Winsten is consulting...

By STEVE LeBLANC

BOSTON — Massachusetts officials say more than 10 percent of drivers for ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft have failed a required background check.More than 62,000 drivers passed, including some who drive for both companies. About 8,200 failed the...