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By MARK SHERMAN and ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — Assured of support from majority Republicans, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch wrapped up two days of Senate questioning Wednesday to glowing GOP reviews but complaints from frustrated Democrats that he concealed his views from the...

y MATTHEW LEE

WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday urged coalition partners to step up efforts to defeat Islamic State militants as top officials from 68 nations gathered in Washington to assess the fight to retake Iraq’s second largest city and advance on...

By JILL LAWLESS, PAISLEY DODDS and DANICA KIRKA

LONDON — A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in the heart of Britain’s seat of power Wednesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Five...

By JON GAMBRELL

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH — American sailors watched as the first Revolutionary Guard vessels appeared on the horizon of the Strait of Hormuz, beginning a daylong face-off that has become familiar to both Iranian paramilitary and U.S. naval...

By MARK PRATT

BOSTON — The remains of an Army medic from Massachusetts who was reported missing in action during the Korean War in 1950 are returning home for burial, military officials said Tuesday.Cpl. Jules Hauterman Jr. is scheduled to be buried in Holyoke on...

By MARLEY JAY

NEW YORK ( — U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in five months Tuesday as a health care bill backed by President Donald Trump ran into trouble in Congress, which raised some questions about his agenda of faster economic growth spurred on by lower...

By MARK SHERMAN and ERICA WERNER

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch declared Tuesday he’s made no promises to Donald Trump or anyone else about how he’ll vote on abortion or other issues and testified he’ll have no trouble as a justice holding anyone accountable,...

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL

WASHINGTON — U.S. and British officials said Tuesday the decision to bar laptops and tablets from the cabins of some international flights wasn’t based on any specific threat but on longstanding concerns about terrorists targeting...

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK

DUBLIN — Martin McGuinness took up arms to fight British soldiers in the streets but ended up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II. A militant who long sought to unify Ireland through violence, he became a peacemaking politician who earned the...

By RALPH D. RUSSO

TAMPA, Fla. — College football’s first national championship rematch was fitting sequel to the original, with an unusual twist at the end.Deshaun Watson and Clemson dethroned the champs and became the first team to beat Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty...

By SAM HANANEL

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from three sex trafficking victims who accuse advertising website Backpage.com of helping to promote the exploitation of children.The justices left in place a lower court ruling that...

By DENISE LAVOIE

BOSTON — A drifter convicted of killing two Massachusetts men in 2001 carjackings was sentenced Monday to death for the second time.Gary Lee Sampson was first condemned to die in 2003, but a judge later granted him a new sentencing trial after finding...

By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON — With steamy nights, sticky days and torrential downpours, last year went down as one of the warmest and wildest weather years on record in the United States.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that 2016...

By CURT ANDERSON

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Iraq war veteran held in the fatal shooting of five people inside Fort Lauderdale’s airport was appointed a federal public defender on Monday after telling a judge that he has no job and only $5 or $10 in the bank.Esteban...

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOCELYN GECKER

FORESTVILLE, Calif. — Emergency crews in rescue boats and helicopters rushed to take advantage of a one-day break between storms Monday to rescue stranded people and assess damage after the heaviest rain in a decade overwhelmed parts of California and...

By MARLEY JAY

NEW YORK — So close! The Dow Jones industrial average missed the 20,000 mark by a fraction of a point Friday as U.S. stock indexes rose after the government said wages jumped in December. Two other major indexes set records.Stocks wavered between...

By DON BABWIN

CHICAGO — A judge rebuked four black people accused of beating a mentally disabled white man and broadcasting the attack on Facebook, sternly asking, “Where was your sense of decency?” before denying their attorneys’ pleas to set bail so they might be...

By PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE

RIO DE JANEIRO — Thirty-one inmates were slain Friday in northern Brazil, some with their hearts and intestines ripped out, during a prison killing spree led by the country’s largest gang, authorities said.The bloodshed comes just days after 60...

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEB RIECHMANN

WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America’s presidential election in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies declared Friday in the government’s first formal allegation...

By ERICA WERNER and JILL COLVIN

WASHINGTON — It was the signature promise of his campaign: Donald Trump vowed to build an impenetrable, concrete wall along the southern border. And Mexico was going to pay for it.Now as he nears inauguration, that wall is sounding increasingly like...