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The STOCK Act bars presidents and members of Congress from trading securities based on the kind of insider information they routinely have access to.

Philonise Floyd said people would go to church just because his brother was there: "He just was like a person everybody loved around the community. He just knew how to make people feel better."

After a historic meeting in Havana, President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro spoke about the differences that remain between the two countries.

Most states have surging coronavirus case counts — 15 are up 40% or more. The start of what could be a third U.S. peak in cases first took hold in rural states, and they are straining to keep up.

At least 45 people were killed and some 150 injured in a crush at the gathering of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel, where tens of thousands had convened.

Ohio hospitals and health departments are trying to figure out how to give out 200,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine that are expiring at the end of the month.

Emma Coronel Aispuro faced charges of conspiring to distribute drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and laundering the profits. Investigators say she helped stage her husband's tunnel escape from prison.

A Connecticut judge has approved a rare request from the state's child welfare agency: to move a transgender teen to adult prison, even though she has not been charged with a crime.

The military's Commander in Chief, President Donald Trump, is in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus. So what does that mean for the military operations?

Nurses and doctors across the U.S. pitched in when New York City was overwhelmed with the coronavirus. Now with the pandemic simmering coast to coast, hospitals can't count on reinforcements.

Researchers studying the wreckage of the Clotilda, which has been buried in mud on the Alabama coast since 1860, say that most of the wooden schooner is still largely in one piece.

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vow to continue their protest against an oil pipeline under construction in North Dakota. They're preparing for a long, cold winter.

In fall 2020, NPR reported that enrollment numbers in public schools were dropping. A year later, has that changed? In many places, the answer is an emphatic "No."

The 25% tariff on U.S. whiskey will be removed in January. Gone too will be the tariffs on U.S. motorcycles and denim, all levied during the Trump administration's trade battle with the E.U.

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several immunizations required by most U.S. transplant programs.

Rutgers University fired its men's basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after a video of him physically and verbally abusing players was aired on ESPN. There are still questions about how the university did or did not respond when it learned of the abuse months ago.

With most of the votes counted, it appears a comedian with no political experience will become president. He made a name for himself on TV playing a teacher who becomes president by a twist of fate.

Pittsburgh is the latest Rust Belt city hoping to lure high-skilled immigrants into its labor force by helping refugees and other immigrants land the kind of jobs they held back home.

Some who are struggling to conceive worry that the battle over abortion could put fertility treatments like IVF in jeopardy. The argument that life begins at conception could restrict such processes.

Israeli politicians and commentators, for the moment at least, clearly support the country's military operations in Lebanon. But the goals -- and the final result -- of that operation are less clear.

Next week Medicare will begin enrollment for its new prescription drug benefit. With literally dozens of different enrollment plans available, Medicare unveiled a new Web site this week meant to simplify the process. But a new survey finds that it's going to take a lot more than a fancy computer program to help seniors sign up.

The sentencing phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial culminates with the jury recommending life in prison for the confessed terrorist conspirator. The jury apparently agreed with many of the prosecution's key arguments, but ended up voting against the death penalty. Formal sentencing by the judge takes place Thursday.

The possibility that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will call a special election is growing more likely. He wants to give the public a vote on measures he says he can't get through a Democrat-controlled legislature. But opponents say the threat of a special election is creating a political impasse.

Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum pleaded not guilty to all federal charges brought against him on Wednesday before he was released pending trial.

Concern is growing over damage to a Ukrainian nuclear facility seized by Russians in March, which is reportedly currently under bombardment. Ukraine is seeking an international mission to the plant.