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More Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to consider an interest rate hike this year at their March meeting than in January, as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened to worsen inflation in the coming months

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Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it is raising its checked baggage fees by $10 less than a year after ending its famous “bags fly free” policy

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The mother of an freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq says she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades

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A British pastor faces manslaughter charges in the drowning of a 61-year-old man during a backyard baptism

1:13 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it

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The Department of Justice has indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi won't appear for a scheduled deposition next week before a House committee investigating how the government handled its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein

12:08 PM on Wednesday, April 8

In 2010, police searching for a missing woman began finding human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway near New York’s Gilgo Beach

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The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change

9:23 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work

9:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Tariff-driven uncertainty, rising costs and tax law changes have prompted many companies to reconsider their strategies

9:15 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work

9:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The ceasefire reached Wednesday has raised hopes of halting hostilities between Iran, Israel and the United States, but many issues remain unresolved

9:03 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College is growing as Passover ends this year

7:23 AM on Wednesday, April 8

General Motors is recalling more than 270,000 Chevrolet Malibu vehicles in the U.S. because the rearview camera screen may display a distorted or blank image

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Route 66 turns 100 this year, making the legendary road ripe for an American road trip

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

6:29 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Texas health regulators have told Camp Mystic’s owners they are investigating hundreds of complaints following last year’s deadly floods that killed 27 girls

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Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia