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BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) – Trucking company Yellow Corp. has shut down operations and is headed for a bankruptcy filing, according to the Teamsters Union and multiple media reports. After years of financial struggles, reports of Yellow preparing for […]

BY ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border – a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and […]

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON (AP) – The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions. Monday’s announcement from […]

BY RENATA BRITO, ELAINE GANLEY AND SAMY MAGDY When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert, the sun had already set. Tunisian authorities had violently forced him, his wife and their 6-year-old daughter across the border to Libya […]

BY ZEKE MILLER AND CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that his administration is moving forward with new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments. The new regulations, which still need to go through a […]

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down their school’s race-conscious admissions plan as violating the Constitution, the board of North Carolina’s flagship public university has voted to strictly bar the use of “race, sex, […]

BY EDDIE PELLS The city itself will be one of the brightest stars at the Paris Olympics, with ceremonies on the Seine, beach volleyball by the Eiffel Tower, and a marathon route that passes through Versailles. In the end, though, it will […]

BY CORA LEWIS AND TOM KRISHER NEW YORK (AP) – The Federal Reserve’s expected move Wednesday to raise interest rates for the 11th time could once again send ripple effects across the economy. Mortgage rates, which have surged since the Fed began lifting rates in March […]

BY GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration is aiming to extend Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults starting Oct. 1, but that date depends on lawmakers completing the last step necessary to implement […]

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months, a streak of hikes that are intended to curb inflation but that also carry the risk of going too […]