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Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike set to take effect in weeks and tied to a pricey Alzheimer’s drug whose benefits have been widely questioned.

If you’ve turned on a television in the last three years, chances are you’ve been inundated with advertisements for sports betting, and not only during game broadcasts.

President Joe Biden’s latest measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 will increase the hassle factor of entering the United States, even for American citizens returning from overseas.

Even Christmas trees aren’t immune to the pandemic-induced shortages and inflation plaguing the economy.

The holly, jolly, best time of the year has gotten a light-filled launch.

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.

Louis Vuitton has staged its first ever U.S. fashion show in Miami, showcasing the collection of designer Virgil Abloh just days after his death.

Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir.

As the tourism industry bounces back from COVID-19, Miami is one of the top search destinations on several travel websites.

Americans are spending freely and going back to store shopping, knocking out some of the momentum in online sales from last year when Americans were making many of their purchases exclusively via the internet.

Decorations unveiled for Joe and Jill Biden’s first White House Christmas honor frontline workers who persevered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From appliance stores in the United States to food markets in Hungary and gas stations in Poland, rising consumer prices are putting a pinch on households and businesses worldwide.

It's an omnipresent truth: Merriam-Webster has declared vaccine its 2021 word of the year.

The overcast, drizzly skies match the somber mood at the Tshwane University of Technology, a hot spot in South Africa’s latest surge of COVID-19 cases, apparently driven by the new omicron variant.

Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush.

The second Thanksgiving of the COVID-19 pandemic comes as a resurgent virus has pushed new infections in the U.S. to 95,000 daily and caused alarming increases at hospitals in Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado and Arizona.

A Virginia man is fighting to hang on to $9,000 in unemployment benefits that the state gave him when his compressor plant closed in 2018.

A year after new owners took over Bally's casino in Atlantic City, a $100 million facelift is underway involving hotel rooms, the casino floor and more.

Giant balloons once again wafted through miles of Manhattan, high school and college marching bands from around the country were back, and so were the crowds at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

A renowned Chinese fashion photographer has apologized for her past work after online critics called it insulting to the Chinese people and fashion house Dior removed one of her photos from a show in Shanghai.

Some of Europe's Christmas markets are warily opening amid surging coronavirus infections.

On this year’s Black Friday, things almost seem normal.

Subway sandwich chain co-founder Peter Buck has died.

The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department’s review of the 1966 death of an employee of wealthy heiress Doris Duke.

Millions of Americans are loading up their cars or piling onto planes, determined to reclaim Thanksgiving traditions that were put on pause last year by the pandemic.

Santa is back this year, but he's asking people to be cautious as he continues to tiptoe through the pandemic.

Traveling this holiday season can be safe if you're fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

First, the good news: There is no shortage of whole turkeys in the U.S. this Thanksgiving.

Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and entrepreneurs within the iconic U.S. landmark are still reeling from a staggering pandemic.

Pregnant women with COVID-19 face increased chances for stillbirths compared with uninfected women.

Business is booming at a truck-driving academy in suburban Los Angeles amid a nationwide shortage of long-haul drivers.

Democrats have brushed aside monthslong divisions and are approaching House passage of their expansive social and environment bill.

The House has handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory.

It was the Meghan hour Thursday on the talk show of her friend, Ellen DeGeneres.

It’s a neutral pronoun that’s proving anything but: A nonbinary pronoun added to an esteemed French dictionary has ignited a fierce linguistic squabble in the country.

Customers are caught in the middle of a growing dispute between Amazon and Visa over transaction fees.

The United States opened its borders to people fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but some who got the shots are finding they're still not eligible to visit.

Pandemic-weary workers at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts are holding a one-day strike over stalled contract negotiations with management.

A multimillionaire dog named Gunther VI is selling his Miami mansion that was once owned by Madonna.

The number of airline passengers traveling for Thanksgiving this year is expected to rebound to pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, but the Transportation Security Administration says it is ready to handle the surge.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says crowds will once again fill Times Square this New Year’s Eve.

Many people in Turkey are facing increased hardship as prices of food and other goods have soared.

When Bob Mackie was 11, his uncle asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and his response was a costume designer on Broadway.

America is about to find out where its heart is.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised advocates, and even many of her Democratic colleagues, when she revived a long-sought paid family and medical leave plan and said it would be part of a massive social and environmental spending bill in the House.

At only 7 years old, Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the “Sesame Street” canon.

The books editor for National Public Radio has died at 46.

New York City has ushered in the holiday season with the arrival of a 79-foot Norway spruce that will serve at Rockefeller Center as one of the world’s most famous Christmas trees.

It's been a bear of a year for Ohio's Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the nation’s second-largest zoological park.

The government is telling nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing many remaining pandemic restrictions while urging residents, families and facility staff to keep their guard up against outbreaks.

Charlie Watts kept his feet firmly on the ground despite the success of the Rolling Stones.