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Imprisoned ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s sentence has been commuted. After months of speculation, President Donald Trump announced the decision as he prepared to board Air Force One Tuesday. “Yes, we commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump said. “He served eight years in jail, a long time. He seems like a very nice person – don’t know him.”  Trump...

More than 1,000 surgical patients are suing a northern Indiana hospital after being notified that a sterilization failure could have exposed them to deadly infections.

Workers at Amazon distribution centers in Germany have gone on strike for better pay on Black Friday, one of the busiest days of the year for the online retailer. Union ver.di said Friday that the walkouts began overnight at six distribution centers across the country, with some due to last until Tuesday. Union representative Orhan Akman said Amazon staff want...

HP Inc. says its board has rejected a roughly $33.5 billion takeover offer from Xerox.

A man’s Tesla, in autopilot at the time, safely navigated while he slept, but he says it could have ended up much differently.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley backed fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her bid to be president Wednesday, citing the way the senator has been fighting for the people. Pressley’s endorsement adds a prominent progressive voice to Warren’s list of supporters.

Her family says French cinematic icon Catherine Deneuve has had a mild stroke while filming her latest movie.

The Trump administration is shutting down one of the largest U.S. facilities for child migrants that had come under intense criticism from advocates and lawmakers.

A hospital in Salem is experience a baby boom from their staff. Eight co-workers at North Shore Medical Center Birthplace are all expecting around the same time. Six nurses, one obstetrician and one unit secretary are all due within the next five months.

The three boys involved in a BB gun shooting on Thursday that sent two children to the hospital have been identified by poilce. Two boys shot “indiscriminately” at children on the Greenhalge Elementary School playground in Lowell, Massachusetts early Thursday afternoon, police said.

Five children were shot with BB guns at a school playground in Lowell, Massachusetts, Wednesday, officials said. The children received minor injuries, and one was sent to the emergency room. The BB gun shooting took place at Greenhalge Elementary School in the afternoon, according to a represTwo males shot “indiscriminately” at children in a school playground in Lowell, Massachusetts, Wednesday...

The owners of a 10 1/2-year-old French bulldog are suing a West Hollywood-based dog walking company after their pet was run over by an SUV in March and later died of its injuries, allegedly due to the inattentiveness of its walker.

Alarmed by violence depicted in trailers for the upcoming movie “Joker,” some survivors of the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting are asking distributor Warner Bros. to commit to gun control causes.

One day after U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III formally declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, he spent the day making several campaign stops across Massachusetts.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine said Cardi B was a gang member while testifying under oath Thursday as part of a case against two alleged members of a Brooklyn street gang, NBC News reported. 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, said under cross-examination that Cardi B was also a member of the notorious Bloods gang, according to the New York Daily...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts was expected to introduce an impeachment resolution against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after new report of sexual misconduct. The resolution would call for an impeachment inquiry into Kavanaugh following a New York Times story that detailed a new allegation of sexual misconduct.

Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling near the Rhode Island state line. They say the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn Airport in Coventry, Rhode Island, and had been turning back toward the airfield when it...

U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a 2020 presidential candidate, spoke out against the politics of division during a Politics and Eggs event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Thursday. “We’re connected, regardless of where we come from — our race, religion, orientation — all of these different things that in this current political climate are too often used as wedges to divide...

A panel of three judges in North Carolina threw out the state’s legislative district maps on Tuesday, ruling that the maps were such an extreme partisan gerrymander that they violated the state constitution, NBC News reports. Lawmakers’ partisan intent in drawing the maps, the “surgical precision” with which they were executed, and the distinct advantage the maps gave to Republicans...