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A woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new Kamala Harris campaign ad.

The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday evening on Speaker Mike Johnson’s spending proposal.

Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays. The State Department announced Wednesday that its online passport renewal system is now fully operational. It’s available to adult passport holders whose passport has expired within the past five years or will exp...

The first rate cut in years will affect many types of consumer products. Here’s what it means for credit cards, mortgage rates, auto loans and savings accounts.

Determined to thwart the automating of their jobs, about 45,000 dockworkers along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct. 1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation’s cargo from ships.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing the owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the Baltimore bridge collapse.

More device explosions were reported across Lebanon on Wednesday, a day after pagers belonging to Hezbollah members detonated across the country, killing at least 14 people and injuring nearly 3,000, state media reported.

A spokesperson for the airline said that Flight 1203 from Salt Lake City to Portland, Oregon, was unable to pressurize above 10,000 feet.

Also nominated are the “Choose Your Own Adventure” gamebooks, Hess Toy Trucks, My Little Pony, Phase 10, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, remote-controlled vehicles, Sequence, the stick horse and Transformers

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is expected to provide new developments in the ongoing case against a 17-year-old boy alleged to have been in communication with a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and attempted to obtain weapons of mass destruction.

A drug dealer who sold a fentanyl-laced pill is liable for $5.8 million in the death of the woman to whom he sold it.

Harvey Weinstein is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan on a new indictment charging him with up to three additional sex offenses, his lawyer said.

The company is seeking bankruptcy protection amid growing struggles to revitalize its business.

When it comes to burgers, the topping options are endless. But, somehow, classic cheeseburgers are still holding strong against the competition.