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Teenagers aren’t turning their backs on college — but they are rethinking what “college” actually means.

And they’re doing it at a moment when the value of higher education itself is under fresh scrutiny.

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The U.S. Justice Department confirmed it was investigating potential antitrust violations in the meatpacking industry amid soaring domestic beef prices and a shrinking cattle herd.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota officials offered a rare, last-minute pardon to a Laotian refugee in the hopes of halting his deportation after he was swept up in the federal government’s unprecedented immigration crackdown.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — “Striking” purple waves are crashing onto the Northern California coastline, according to an online news feed.

“(It’s) not something you see every day, a purple wave in Point Reyes” in ...Read more

Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown on Monday was honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for her groundbreaking and impactful investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the people and institutions ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis’ office is pursuing legislation that would allow state agencies to invest enterprise fees and other public money in privately managed investment funds, instead of investing through the ...Read more

WINONA, Minnesota — Ron Passe retired from Fastenal in 2024 and said he has a comfortable lifetsyle thanks to dividend payments he receives on company stock he acquired throughout his years there.

Sporting a hat he ...Read more

MIAMI — Palm Beach County commissioners will take their first public vote Tuesday on the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump, now that county officials have reached a tentative trademark deal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a newly passed congressional map that gives his fellow Republicans four pickup opportunities in this fall’s midterm elections.

A spokeswoman for DeSantis ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland state Sen. Arthur Ellis is calling for a special session to review and address Maryland’s congressional maps following the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting the use of race in redistricting...Read more

BEIRUT — Confusion reigned on Monday over the fate of a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran after a wave of fresh strikes on the United Arab Emirates and Oman, along with reports of attacks on ships in ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.

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LOS ANGELES — Dolly Parton has been receiving treatment for unspecified health issues concerning her immune and digestive systems, she announced Monday, saying at the same time that her postponed Las Vegas residency has ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach areas have had one of their driest Aprils in state history. Farmers are taking the brunt of it.

The South Carolina Drought Response Committee met Thursday ...Read more

When Adriana Gomez-Weston first got the offer for her current job in Seattle, she was ecstatic.

Working for the catering company Compass, she estimated that she'd make around $60,000 a year before taxes. That sounded high...Read more

NEW YORK — Broadway’s famed Eugene O’Neill Theatre caught fire Monday, with the blaze quickly escalating to three alarms and causing substantial damage, FDNY officials said.

The electrical fire broke out in a rear ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Star Tribune has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its newsroom-wide coverage of a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church last summer.

Marjorie Miller, administrator of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A United Airlines flight hit a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, sending the truck driver to the ...Read more

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have reached an agreement to resolve their legal dispute, bringing an abrupt end to a high-profile and increasingly contentious battle that had been set to go to trial later this month.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law the congressional map his office created.

Within hours, opponents filed a lawsuit.

DeSantis’ plan could add four more seats for the Republican Party. It...Read more