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On the same weekend that President Donald Trump declared houses of worship are essential, pastors and congregants from some of those churches are cautiously returning to ...

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As Yellowstone and other national parks end a two-month shutdown due to the coronavirus, park officials want visitors to take precautions, such as washing their hands, ke...

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Immigrants and their advocates say the U.S. citizenship process has stalled during the coronavirus crisis even as many parts of life have pivoted online or are starting t...

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Cooped-up Americans are snapping up new bicycles or dusting off decades-old bikes to stay fit, keep their sanity or have a safe alternative to public transportation.

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The killing sparked outrage across a nation fixated on a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly 100,000 American lives.

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Merriam-Webster has updated its dictionary entry on “Chinese restaurant syndrome,” a term many Asian Americans saw as antiquated and even racist.

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Another round of evacuations is taking place in Central Michigan further downriver from two dams that were overwhelmed earlier this week by floodwaters.

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Much of the country remains unlikely to venture out to bars, restaurants, theaters or gyms anytime soon, despite state and local officials increasingly allowing businesse...

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A group that monitors online activity of jihadists says the suspect killed during an attack at a Texas naval air base voiced support for hardline clerics.

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The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX's brand new rocketship and return human orbital launches to the U.S. are classmates and friends.

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A contact tracing app pushed by the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota as a tool to trace exposure to the coronavirus violated its own privacy policy by sharing l...

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Universal Orlando is aiming to reopen its theme parks in early June.

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says checks from the state's oil-wealth fund will begin going out to residents three months earlier than usual because of economic hardships cau...

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The U.S. Senate is doing almost anything but deliberate the coronavirus.

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After refusing for weeks to release reopening guidance for churches, the Trump administration on Thursday abruptly changed course — with the president saying he had instr...

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Michigan Senate candidate John James has been called a rising star of the Republican Party so many times it’s become a cliche, but his race against Sen. Gary Peters in a ...

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As much of California reopens businesses amid easing coronavirus conditions, a farming region bordering Mexico is struggling with a spike in cases.

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Court papers show actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty to charges that will include prison time in the c...

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For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil.

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President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison Thursday and is expected to serve the remainder of his sent...

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Growing numbers of U.S. colleges are pledging to reopen this fall, but they're planning dramatic changes to campus life to keep the coronavirus at bay.

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At least four states combined data from two different test results, potentially providing a misleading picture of when and where coronavirus spread as the nation eases re...

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A teacher who instructed preschoolers inside a Kansas nursing home before the coronavirus pandemic has been named the nation's top educator.