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Under pressure from U.S. safety regulators, Ford is recalling about 2 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America because the seat belts can spark and cause fires. The recall, which covers trucks from the 2015 through 2018 model years, comes ...

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation tumbled into highly charged arguing Thursday about whether key documents were being withheld, and one Democrat risked Senate discipline by releasing confidential material. A newly disclosed email revealed that President Donald Trump’s pick once ...

A wave of sexual-harassment complaints that accompanied the #MeToo movement is straining many of the state and local offices tasked with policing workplace discrimination of all kinds. Places such as New York City and Massachusetts have added resources to deal ...

The Trump administration said Thursday it plans to circumvent a longstanding court agreement that governs how children are treated in immigration custody, in part to detain families longer as a way to deter migrants from crossing the Southwestern border illegally. ...

Lawyers are seeking to force President Donald Trump’s administration to pay for the mental-health treatment of immigrant children they say are suffering lingering emotional effects from being separated from their parents at the U.S. border. A federal class-action lawsuit filed ...

U.S. services companies grew at a faster pace in August as business activity and new orders rebounded. The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday that its services index rose to 58.5 last month from 55.7 in July. Readings above 50 ...

U.S. businesses added 163,000 jobs in August, a private survey found, a decent gain that suggests that employers are confident enough to keep hiring. Payroll processor ADP said Thursday that the job gains were the fewest since October. Last month’s ...

Kyle Bailey knows firsthand it can be lonely working on a campaign for an independent political candidate. There’s no party structure to rely on to help with campaign fundraising, mobilizing voters, developing policies or even providing a sounding board. That ...

Election security wasn’t a mission initially envisioned for the Department of Homeland Security, the sprawling department creating after the Sept. 11 attacks. It’s now one of the highest priorities, though, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday. Nielsen said in a speech ...

A Roman Catholic bishop who apologized to his flock last month for the “misguided and inappropriate decisions of church leaders” is reckoning with his own role — revealed in federal court a decade ago — in the system that protected ...

Two advocacy groups alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that police in Phoenix violated the free-speech rights of protesters outside a rally by President Donald Trump by firing tear gas as they were about to confront Trump supporters. The excessive-force lawsuit ...