Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas.

The East Coast is experiencing a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather.

Authorities have released autopsy results for three bodies recovered from a home, a car's back seat and a river between New Hampshire and Maine.

Police say a man who was being pursued in the killing of his wife in New Hampshire was shot by police and tumbled from the Interstate 95 bridge that connects the state to Maine.

The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Englanders are accustomed to cold weather, snow and ice, but Friday night's combination of extreme cold and powerful winds is enough to make even bundled-up skiers shelter indoors.

It's been six months since President Joe Biden signed his $1 trillion infrastructure package into law.

The Biden administration is removing the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from his position and replacing him with the U.S. attorney in Arizona.

President Joe Biden plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner on April 30.

President Joe Biden’s administration has been working for months to prepare people to rethink their personal risk calculations as the nation gets used to the idea of living with an endemic COVID-19.

President Joe Biden is making his second trip to New Hampshire since he signed bipartisan infrastructure legislation in November.

Methodist Healthcare is hosting its third annual “Crush The Crisis” opioid take-back day on Saturday so people can safely discard unused medications.

Britain will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne with four days of festivities beginning with her ceremonial birthday parade on June 2, 2022.

Queen Elizabeth II has made a quick visit to the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier that bears the name of her eponymous 16th-century predecessor as it prepares for its maiden operational deployment.

Black cemeteries are scattered throughout the United States, telling the story of the country's deep past of cemetery segregation.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The police chief in Portsmouth, Virginia, is on paid leave nearly three weeks after her department charged a state senator and several others from the city's Black community with conspiring to a damage a Confederate monument. City spokeswoman Dana Woodson confirmed in an email on Friday that Chief Angela Greene is on leave and that an assistant police chief will assume her duties in the meantime. Allies of State Sen. Louise Lucas in Richmond have called the felony charges against her legally weak and political. The case is based on words that police say Lucas spoke in the hours before protesters ripped heads off Confederate statues and pulled one down, critically injuring a demonstrator. Greene became Portsmouth's police chief in 2019 after chief Tonya Chapman resigned.

NORFOLK, Va. A Virginia state senator has been charged with damaging a Confederate monument in Portsmouth during protests that also led to a demonstrator being critically injured when a statue was torn down, authorities said Monday. Lucas is a longtime Democratic legislator and a key power broker in the state Senate, joining the chamber in 1992. The monument in Portsmouth consists of a large obelisk and statues of four Confederate military personnel. Felony charges leveled against a sitting state senator are to be taken seriously, and should not be sought out for political gain, he said in a statement. "It is for that reason that the Republican Party of Virginia calls for Senator Lucas to turn herself in.

Truax, the poet laureate for Portsmouth, N.H., pens a weekly pandemic poem that is included in the city's COVID-19 newsletter. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)CONCORD, N.H. Valerie Rochon is eager to read her email every Monday morning, even when it makes her cry. Tammi Truax, the citys poet laureate, has been contributing to the newsletters since early April, elevating the collection of public health updates and community resources with a layer of emotion and introspection. For the July 4 holiday weekend, she produced a found poem by extracting words from an Alexander Hamilton essay. One Good Thing is a series of AP stories focusing on glimmers of joy and benevolence in a dark time.

President Donald Trump walks to his vehicle after arriving at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for a fundraiser, Friday, July 10, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)MIAMI Friday was supposed to be the day President Donald Trump's campaign reboot itself got a reboot. With Tropical Storm Fay heading towards the Great State of New Hampshire this weekend, we are forced to reschedule our Portsmouth, New Hampshire Rally at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, Trump tweeted. Trumps visit to Florida was supposed to launch back-to-back days of high-profile campaigning but instead wound up being a one-off. Campaign officials privately acknowledged there had been fears all along about how many people would attend the Portsmouth rally. But there was also strong opposition to Trumps rally among some prominent New Hampshire Republicans.