National-party conflicts over age, experience, and ideology are playing out in the Maine Senate primary between Janet Mills ...

The ongoing government shutdown persists, but is it the longest the nation has seen? These are longest shutdowns in U.S.

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The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.9% in September, from 8.4% in August, a big drop that in normal times would be welcome news for a presidential incumbent seeking reelection in just over a month.

Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden face off on Tuesday in a televised presidential debate, part of a 60-year-old tradition marked by some of the most memorable moments of modern ...

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Six years later, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel to retake ...

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Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2025. There are 86 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad ...

Locally, about 640 men, including Bill Anslinger of Sinking Valley, reenacted Benedict Arnold’s march to Quebec in 1775 in a failed effort to capture the Canadian city. 25 years ago: 2000 — Anthony ...

The U,S. Supreme Court has not affirmatively upheld an assault weapon ban. However, this June it declined to hear challenges to a Maryland assault weapon ban on firearms like the AR-15. It thus let ...