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Like Hercules and his 12 labors, Democrats’ $1.85 trillion package of social and climate initiatives seems afflicted by a maddening parade of hurdles.

When the UNLV women’s basketball team runs sprints during practice, she usually finishes first. Hates to get beat, actually. And during games, when there is a loose ball or contested rebound, she takes pride in being the first …

The extent to which Biden’s $1.85 trillion bill exacerbates inflation largely depends on how much it stimulates the economy and whether Americans will …

Even without the benefit of a second earner, single mothers — those who have never married — have made up a growing share of homebuyers over the past three decades …

The Japanese government’s preparations for the next virus surge include adding thousands more hospital beds to avoid a situation like last summer when COVID-19 patients were forced to stay home, even while dependent on oxygen deliveries.

A little girl who lost a special teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year.

Britney Spears’ independence day may finally have arrived.

A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies died Thursday evening at a Florida aquarium despite life-saving efforts to treat a gastrointestinal abnormality, aquarium officials said.

A Missouri man who admitted to burying his wife’s body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder.

Ricky Wright points to the bank of a creek to show one way his hometown has been affected by climate change. Many banks have eroded or collapsed, and now some favorite fishing spots that were once on solid ground are reachable only by boat.