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Once an outlaw, a moonshiner reckons with a changing craft
In Virginia’s Franklin County, Henry Law made the switch from illicit moonshine production to commercial sales.…
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Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century…
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What happens to Lindsay Clancy now? Here’s what to know after mistrial.
The mistrial in the case of the 36-year-old Massachusetts mother who admitted to killing her three children sets up the…
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In boost to GOP, Supreme Court says parties should get lower TV ad rates
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that political parties should get discounted TV ad rates when they coordinate spending…
Read at source →Infant died of measles in Pennsylvania, coroner confirms
The 6-week-old died Aug. 18 at home, after being in palliative care at home soon after birth, Lancaster County coroner…
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Here’s why wages are falling behind inflation, an economic warning sign
Inflation beat out wage growth again in August, which feels like 2023.
Read at source →Lindsay Clancy murder trial ends in mistrial despite dramatic appeal from defense
Prosecutors must now decide whether they want to try the case again.
Read at source →Judge orders DOJ to disclose who conceived of now-defunct payout fund
The Trump administration dropped plans for a fund to compensate people who say they were unfairly prosecuted, but…
Read at source →The behind-the-scenes effort to contain the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak
Public health workers are relying on word-of-mouth immunization clinics to fight the state’s growing outbreak.
Read at source →Senators call for investigation into GI Bill trade schools, citing Post series
A bipartisan team of lawmakers is urging Veterans Affairs and the Justice Department to crack down on fraud in veterans…
Read at source →Lindsay Clancy’s attorney asks judge to remove a juror
The defense attorney said the juror “refuses” to follow the judge’s instructions.
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Former labor secretary misused funds and drank on the job, report finds
Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned in April over the misconduct allegations. She oversaw a “toxic, intimidating and…
Read at source →College loans were late due to new federal rules. Students are paying the price.
Following a confusing rollout of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s loan changes, some students couldn’t pay bills over…
Read at source →The wrong people are paying off their mortgages
People with low interest rates should be holding on to their mortgages. Instead, they're accelerating their payments.
Read at source →Trump administration aims to strip schools’ tax exemption if they consider race
The Treasury Department and IRS proposal would apply to private schools and colleges.
Read at source →NYC approves $1 million to send eighth-graders to 9/11 memorial
City lawmakers want to make sure students know about the terrorist attacks.
Read at source →Judge blocks Trump’s latest attempt to limit birthright citizenship
The judge said the issue raised in Trump’s August executive order was settled by the Supreme Court, and “no…
Read at source →Gloria Steinem, lodestar of the modern women’s movement, dies at 92
"In my heart, I think a woman has two choices," she once said. "Either she's a feminist or a masochist."
Read at source →How the data center backlash is growing in U.S. statehouses
Legislation is being introduced at a record pace as growing public opposition to data centers drives more proposals to…
Read at source →The ‘Gen Z stare’ — and the decline of saying things out loud
We’re speaking fewer words every year. Scientists worry what that’s doing to our brains.
Read at source →Lindsay Clancy jury deadlocked for second consecutive day
Jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman who killed her three children in 2023, told the judge…
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‘Friday the 13th’ screenwriter Victor Miller, creator of Jason Voorhees, dies at 86
The 1980 film kicked off a blood-splattered media franchise with nearly a dozen sequels. Mr. Miller worked on daytime…
Read at source →Will you get your full Social Security payout? Here’s what experts say.
The Social Security trust fund is on track to hit zero by 2032. Ten experts share their predictions about who will get…
Read at source →Deep in the Grand Canyon, the rain left them nowhere to go
Hikers thought they’d prepared for the reality of a flash flood, but they never imagined that they’d be trapped in the…
Read at source →Bessent says U.S. plan to ‘asphyxiate’ Iran’s economy has allies’ support
On the sidelines of the G-20 meeting of finance ministers, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed allies to support…
Read at source →Trump’s withholding of N.Y. counterterror funds threatens safety, governor says
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Trump administration hasn’t given the state $87 million in promised…
Read at source →Most Americans disapprove of Lake Ontario name change
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week renaming it Lake America, as part of his feud with Canada.
Read at source →College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled…
Read at source →Trump administration closes 110 trucking schools over English-language rules
The crackdown is part of a broader effort to remove undocumented immigrants from the country, the Department of…
Read at source →17-year-old girl charged with murder in live-streamed California mosque shooting
Prosecutors say the North Carolina teen allegedly helped plan and share the manifesto behind the attack.
Read at source →Here’s where colleges are offering free tuition
Explore our database of nearly 1,000 colleges and universities that offer free-tuition programs.
Read at source →At 98, he took on a summer reading challenge. He plans to do it again at 99.
As Abner Gaston Jr. nears the century mark, his son said, going to the library helps him get out of the house and meet…
Read at source →At least 80 people rescued after Grand Canyon flash flooding; one is unaccounted for
Accurately tallying the missing has been a challenge, said one person familiar with the situation. Two deaths have been…
Read at source →Ex-gang leader convicted of murder 30 years after Tupac Shakur’s death
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, faces a potential sentence of life in prison…
Read at source →The CDC hasn’t added 2 deaths to its measles database. Here’s why.
The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
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