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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday for his administration to review federal bans on offshore drilling....Read More

For the first time in 34 years Friday, a sitting U.S. president attended and addressed the annual convention of the National Rifle Association....Read More

Former President George H.W. Bush was released from a Houston hospital on Friday after a two-week stay to treat pneumonia and chronic bronchitis....Read More

The U.S. House passed a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, giving lawmakers another week to hammer out a deal on the budget....Read More

The Rhode Island Division of Taxation said authorities erroneously sent 500 residents duplicate tax refund checks worth a total of about $364,000....Read More

The Commerce Department said the national economy grew at a rate of 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2017, a 1.4 percent decrease from the previous quarter....Read More

The man charged with the slaying of a pregnant Food Network contestant and her husband pleaded guilty in a North Carolina court....Read More

Arkansas executed a murderer late Thursday, wrapping up a stretch of putting to death four inmates in eight days before a lethal injection drug expires....Read More

Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday it is recalling 228,000 of its Tacoma pickup trucks in the United States for model years 2016 and 2017....Read More

The U.S. Senate confirmed the last of President Trump’s Cabinet secretaries Thursday, approving labor chief Alex Acosta with the help of eight Democrats....Read More