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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG

WASHINGTON — With only days left in the White House, President Joe Biden was saving a few surprises for his farewell address Wednesday evening. Instead of simply summing up his term in office, he used the opportunity to issue dire warnings about the future and call for deep changes to the country’s foundational document.

By STAN CHOE

NEW YORK — Wall Street shuddered, and a level of shock unseen since COVID’s outbreak tore through financial markets worldwide Thursday on worries about the damage President Donald Trump’s newest set of tariffs could do to economies across continents, including his own.

By STAN CHOE

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s fast-approaching “Liberation Day” had stock markets all over the world swinging sharply.

By AMANDA SEITZ and KEVIN FREKING

WASHINGTON — Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — The state’s top court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all the same charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, the latest twist in the long-running case that transfixed true crime fans nationwide.

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

Nineteen Democratic attorneys general sued President Donald Trump on Friday to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans.

By MIKE CATALINI

By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN

WASHINGTON — Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings Monday that unfolded without challenge, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the U.S....

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

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadly attack that officials said...

By SARAH EL DEEB

DAMASCUS — At Damascus’ international airport, the new head of security — one of the rebels who marched across Syria to the capital — arrived with his team. The few maintenance workers who showed up for work huddled around Maj Hamza al-Ahmed, eager to...

By BARBARA ORTUTAY

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn...

By STEVE LeBLANC

BOSTON — U.S. Reps. James McGovern and Richard Neal easily won reelection on Tuesday, as Massachusetts Democrats maintained their hold on the state’s Congressional delegation. In addition to McGovern and Neal, two other incumbents fended off...

By ZEKE MILLER, MICHELLE L. PRICE, WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony...

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, MELANIE LIDMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to...

By BILL BARROW

ATLANTA — From her earliest campaigns in California to her serving as President Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris has honed an aggressive but calibrated approach to debates.She tries to blend punch lines with details that build toward a broader...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains — and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.With the Food and Drug Administration’s clearance,...

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ASHRAF KHALIL

WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s war in Gaza and condemned American protesters in a scathing speech to Congress Wednesday that triggered boycotts by many top Democratic lawmakers and drew thousands to the...

By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly Monday to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their party that he would be unable to defeat...

By STEVE LeBLANC

Rescuers who helped free more than a hundred dolphins from the Cape Cod shoreline say they’ve confirmed that the mass stranding that began June 28 was the largest involving dolphins in U.S. history.There were two previous events on record in Hawaii...

By RANDALL CHASE and CLAUDIA LAUER

WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or...