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By COLLEEN LONG, LOLITA C. BALDOR and ELLEN KNICKMEYER

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials on Sunday were trying to precisely identify the latest two objects blown from the sky by F-22 fighter jets during a week of unprecedented incursions over the United States and Canada, carefully working to determine whether...

By JUSTIN SPIKE, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SARAH EL DEEB

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in...

By JESSICA DAMIANO

If you’re sending your sweetheart cut flowers or a potted plant for Valentine’s Day, choose ones that are safe for their pets.One lick of a pollen-covered lily stamen can be life-threatening to cats, as my daughter Julia learned when her cat, Nyah,...

By HOLLY RAMER

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The girls at New Hampshire’s youth detention center called their dormitory leader “Peepin’ Dave” because they say he leered at them through a bathroom window. But David Ball, later promoted to chief of operations, also is accused of...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A woman whose teenage son died by suicide in 2017 urged New Hampshire lawmakers Tuesday to pass legislation allowing kindergarten through 12th-grade students excused absences from school to deal with mental and behavioral health...

By ZEKE MILLER, SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden exhorted Congress Tuesday night to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation as he delivered a State of the Union address aimed at reassuring a country beset by pessimism and...

By WILL WEISSERT

PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic Party on Saturday approved reordering its 2024 presidential primary, replacing Iowa and New Hampshire with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a major shake-up meant to empower Black and other minority voters...

By KEN MILLER and DAVID SHARP

Rising temperatures offered some hope Friday for frustrated Texans days after they lost power — and in many cases heat — in a deadly winter storm, while a new wave of frigid weather rolling into the Northeast led communities to close schools and open...

By HOLLY RAMER

 Six years have passed since David Meehan told police he was brutally beaten and raped as a child at New Hampshire’s youth detention center. It’s been three years since he sued the state and almost two years since a broad criminal...

By MEG KINNARD, HOLLY RAMER and JILL COLVIN

SALEM — Former President Donald Trump kicked off his 2024 White House bid with a stop Saturday in New Hampshire before heading to South Carolina, appearances in early-voting states marking the first campaign events since announcing his latest run more...

By WILL WEISSERT

WASHINGTON — A Democratic National Committee panel voted to give New Hampshire and Georgia more time to make changes that would allow both to be part of a revamped group of five states leading off the party’s presidential primary starting next year....

By HOLLY RAMER

The New Hampshire Legislature is once again debating recreational use of marijuana but efforts to legalize it still face significant hurdles.In the decade since the state legalized medical marijuana, the House has passed recreational marijuana bills...

By LISA RATHKE

Noncitizen residents may continue to vote in municipal elections in Vermont’s capital city of Montpelier, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, stating that such voting in local elections doesn’t violate the state constitution.In its decision on an...

By HOLLY RAMER

New Hampshire is the only state that allows adults to drive without wearing seatbelts. Want to use your dog instead? Go for it, for now.While the state currently has no lapdog-related laws, the Legislature is considering a bill that would make it...

By ANDREW DALTON and JAE C. HONG

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — A gunman killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio amid a day of Lunar New Year celebrations and then may have tried — but failed — to target a second dance hall, authorities said Sunday. An urgent search was underway across...

By HOLLY RAMER

The state Senate gave preliminary approval Thursday to legislation that would keep New Hampshire’s troubled youth detention center open for nearly two more years.Debate over the future of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester began years ago,...

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD, N.H. — A group accused of displaying “Keep New England White” banners from an overpass in New Hampshire faces state Civil Rights Act violations, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday. The complaints allege that on July 30, 2022, the...

By MIKE STOBBE

NEW YORK — Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners dropped again last year, and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up.Usually, 94% to 95% of kindergarteners are vaccinated against measles, tetanus and certain other...

By FRANCES D’EMILIO

ROME — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on the run, paramilitary police...

By UPENDRA MAN SINGH, SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANISH BHATTARAI

POKHARA, Nepal — A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported hearing cries for...