Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is sworn in despite credible evidence of election loss
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday to serve a third six-year term, extending his increasingly repressive rule until 2031 despite protests and credible ...
Trump tax cuts, if made permanent, stand to benefit highest income earners, Treasury analysis shows
Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis estimates the top 0.1% of earners would get a tax cut of $314,000 under a full extension of ...
Thursday’s high school scores and highlights
ROUNDUP BOYS BASKETBALL Eleven different players scored, led by junior Brody Bumila with 21 points and 12 boards as Bishop Feehan routed Bishop Fenwick 80-48 in Catholic Central League play. In a ...
Reading takes a big step in ML hockey race
In a Middlesex League Liberty title race that Reading boys hockey coach Mark Doherty believes could be the tightest across all five teams it’s been in his tenure, he feels any ground ...
Winter storm plods into the Deep South, prompting states of emergency and school closures
Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert ...
Americans have dimmer view of Biden than they did of Trump or Obama as term ends, new poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second, a new poll finds ...
Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold
Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate ...
US economy likely added 153,000 jobs last month, returning to normal after strike and hurricanes
The December jobs numbers are expected to deliver a more accurate reading of where things stand with the economy.
What ignited the deadly California wildfires? Investigators consider an array of possibilities
Utilities are required to report to the California Public Utilities Commission when they know of “electric incidents ...
LA area’s 2 biggest blazes burn at least 10,000 structures, while new fire leads to more evacuations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have burned at least 10,000 homes, buildings and ...
Trump to be sentenced in hush money case, days before return to White House
With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an ...
Cerullo: Red Sox still in table-setting mode
Though clearly improved, the Red Sox still don’t seem ready to go all-in. Instead, they’ve spent the offseason setting the ...