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West Virginia senators voted Tuesday to allow Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker to remain in office following a two-day impeachment trial. The vote was 32-1 with one senator absent. A two-thirds majority was required to remove Walker, whose 12-year term ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that he sees no need to drop the central bank’s gradual approach to raising interest rates. Powell said the combination of steady, low inflation and very low unemployment shows the country is going ...

A federal judge has refused to order a St. Louis County high school to put a 16-year-old boy on a soccer team while his family sues for discrimination. U.S. District Court Judge John A. Ross denied the temporary restraining order ...

About half of young Americans expect to be financially better off than their parents, according to a new poll, a sign that the dream of upward mobility is alive though somewhat tempered. The poll, by The Associated Press-NORC Center for ...

Amazon, which has faced political and economic pressure to raise pay for thousands of employees, is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in ...

The FBI has finished interviewing a friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was said to have attended a high school gathering in the early 1980s where a woman says she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh, the man’s lawyer ...

It’s not just the U.S. Supreme Court. The bitterly partisan fight regarding President Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s highest court, and the questions it has raised about the judiciary’s independence, mirror what voters are seeing in state supreme court ...

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. Sales were slow, however, and industry’s campaign to free up taxpayer money for ...

The company that owns the Ride the Ducks operation in Branson asked a judge Monday to dismiss some of the lawsuits filed after one of its boats sank in a Missouri lake in July, killing 17 people. Ripley Entertainment said ...

A St. Louis County jury on Friday found attorney Scott Bailey guilty of second-degree involuntary manslaughter for his role in a fatal street race. Prosecutors alleged that Bailey and another man, Haven Sooter, were racing on Lindbergh Boulevard on July ...

Spending on U.S. construction projects edged up a slight 0.1 percent in August as a strong gain in government spending offset weakness in home building and nonresidential construction. The Commerce Department said Monday that the rise, which followed a 0.2 ...