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By JEFF MARTIN and MAYSOON KHAN

ATLANTA — Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Ga., a day after he entered hospice...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its “fatal” nuclear attack capacity and threatened additional powerful steps over upcoming military drills between the United...

By WAYNE PARRY

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Commercial casinos in the United States won more than $60 billion from gamblers in 2022, the best year in the industry’s history.Figures released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association, the gambling industry’s national...

By JESSICA DAMIANO

Planning this year’s garden? My guess is you’re envisioning plants bathed in daylight. But the problem is that by nightfall, when the sun has set and you’re ready to kick back at home, you won’t be able to see and fully enjoy the fruits of your...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine — The waters off New England, which are home to rare whales and most of the American lobster fishing industry, logged the second-warmest year on record last year.The Gulf of Maine, a body of water about the size of Indiana that touches...

By DAVID SHARP

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic politician or even a former tough-minded prosecutor. But there’s another side to the governor — she’s a poet.“If more politicians knew poetry,...

By HOLLY RAMER

The New Hampshire House dealt a blow Tuesday to efforts to quickly close and replace the state’s troubled youth detention center.The Senate passed a bill last month that would require construction of a new 12-18 bed facility to be put out to bid by...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The wild blueberry, Maine’s most important fruit, could get some help fighting off a pest under legislation proposed by the state’s Republican U.S. senator. Maine is the only state in the country with a significant harvest of...

By MEG KINNARD and STEVE PEOPLES

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Few have navigated the turbulent politics of the Trump era like Nikki Haley.In early 2016, the then-South Carolina governor said she was “embarrassed” by candidate Donald Trump and decried his reluctance to condemn white...

New Hampshire State Police are investigating whether two crashes on Interstate 93, one of which toppled a light pole and left about 10 vehicles with multiple flat tires, are related.Police said they responded to reports at about 7:10 p.m. Sunday that...

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...