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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - American whiskey absorbed some setbacks but showed resilience in the face of pandemic-related clampdowns on bars and restaurants as liquor sales benefited from enduring demand for a ...

LONDON - Facebook's quasi-independent oversight board issued its first rulings on Thursday, overturning four out of five decisions by the social network to take down questionable content. But critics ...

INDIANAPOLIS - A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy accused of fatally shooting his father, stepmother, two teenage relatives and a heavily pregnant 19-year-old woman was charged with six counts of murder T...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration confirmed Thursday that thousands more nursing home residents died of COVID-19 than the state's official tallies had previously acknowledged,...

NEW YORK - Peter Nicks had for months been documenting the students of Oakland High School, in California, when the pandemic hit. "It's in the Bay," says one student of the virus as he and others mill...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Sales of new homes rose 1.6% in December after a big decline in November that was even worse than previously thought. The increase last month pushed sales of new homes to a season...

NEW YORK - Within hours of Amanda Gorman's reading of the inaugural poem last week, bookstores were hearing from their customers. "Hopefully this will be a bridge that brings a lot of people to poetry...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Chinese-Canadian singer says a Chinese corruption charge against her mother, who has been held in custody for six years, has been withdrawn but she remains in detention. Wanting Qu,...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell but remained at a historically high 847,000 last week, a sign that layoffs keep coming as the coronavirus pandemic continue...

WASHINGTON - Stuck in the grip of a viral pandemic, the U.S. economy grew at a 4% annual rate in the final three months of 2020 and shrank last year by the largest amount in 74 years. For 2020 as a wh...