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BEIJING, China — China will offer the Taliban tariff-free access to its vast construction, energy and consumer sectors, Beijing’s envoy to Afghanistan said on Thursday, as the ailing resource-rich but diplomatically-isolated regime looks to build up…

With under two weeks to Election Day, and as millions of Americans have already voted, the Democratic National Committee is kicking its ground game operation into high gear for the…

Dewey Bozella was 18 years old when he was arrested for murder. It was a terrible crime: An elderly woman had been beaten and suffocated in her home in Poughkeepsie, New…

As the dust settled after the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, as the initial shock wore off and the breaking news coverage subsided, residents of this tiny…

Donald Trump and his allies are spreading a new “big lie” ahead of Election Day. A World Series matchup for the ages is set to begin. And a new report…

A federal jury found that costumed players, dressed as Sesame characters near Philadelphia, did not discriminate against young Black patrons in widely shared video two years ago, court records showed on…

PITTSBURGH — Inside Acrisure Stadium, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took the stage last Tuesday to an embrace from one of the team’s former safeties, Will Allen,…

Jack Jones, a singer who found fame and chart success on the easy-listening side of the street in the 1960s, and who later became etched in television-watching America’s psyche with…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — On a recent Friday, Ari Cohen and three friends — all seniors at Asheville High School — gathered to play UNO inside his house, next to a…

The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex. In tiny boxes, hundreds of people, most of them white, meet weekly in online video conferences to share…