A combination of $25 million in city property tax relief and $120 million in state incentives helped lure General Election from its Connecticut headquarters to Boston, bringing hundreds of high-paying jobs with the Fortune 500 company.

The idea that China needs to devalue its currency to reflect a weakening export sector is not borne out by the 2015 trade figures, which show that China gained world-wide market share in a tough global trading environment.

Some analysts say any declines in U.S. stocks are likely to remain contained this year, mainly because of the strength of the U.S. economy.

“If the Clinton campaign is too thin-skinned to handle velvet-gloved contrasts from Bernie Sanders, you’ve got to wonder how they’re going to get through a general election,”

Donald Trump was under siege — stores were yanking his branded merchandise, Univision was dumping his Miss Universe pageant — and James Radcliffe wanted to help out

There are apparently plenty who agree; nearly 74,000 people contributed to the Republican White House hopeful over the summer, according to his campaign, and it’s a safe bet none of them comes close to his stated worth of many billions of dollars.

Mike Honda said outside the Capitol on Tuesday morning that he is proud Silicon Valley has reached out to the 14-year-old Texas student arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school.

The 14 Republicans in California’s congressional delegation are demanding a government plan to capture, store and transport the water expected from this winter’s El Niño.

"It's either, or. You show us how you're going to get the water or you show us the impacts and how we're going to deal with the impacts," Nunes added.

In the previous four years under President George W. Bush, the Justice Department had stopped taking police departments to court over allegations of misconduct or violations of civil rights.

In the nearly seven years since Obama came to office, his Justice Department has investigated 21 police departments -- big departments, including New Orleans and Detroit, and small ones, such as East Haven and Ferguson, Mo. 

The Republican Study Committee and the "Tuesday group" of House GOP moderates both endorsed Paul Ryan for speaker of the House on Thursday, meaning the Wisconsin Republican has support from the three groups he said he needed to run for the position.

The Tuesday group, whose membership includes more than 50 House GOP members, met with Ryan on earlier in the day and the move was expected, as many of those who attended were already publicly behind his bid.

The USS Simpson has turned into a ghost ship.

The U.S. Navy decommissioned the 30-year-old frigate Tuesday and with it shut the back cover on one of the most significant -- yet little-heralded -- stories in U.S. military history.

President Barack Obama announced Thursday that U.S. forces will remain in Afghanistan at their current levels throughout much of 2016, yet another delay in their scheduled withdrawal and an acknowledgment that America's longest war won't be concluded on his watch.

The U.S. military diverted two aircraft over Syria to ensure they could maintain a safe flying distance from a Russian fighter aircraft in the same area, according to Captain Jeff Davis, Pentagon spokesman.

Since the Russians began operating in Syrian airspace, U.S. pilots have been under orders to change their flight path if there is a Russian plane within 20 nautical miles, according to the official.

In early September, in the small New Hampshire town of Berlin, there were two Bernie Sanders signs along Main Street. Meanwhile, down the block, a sign on Hillary Clinton's Berlin office announced it would be fully operational six days a week.

Two mayors disputed Tuesday the claim by Hillary Clinton's campaign they endorsed her presidential candidacy.

The same Clinton aide said that their campaign had been talking with the mayor's office over the course of the summer about a possible endorsement.

The aggressive Jeb Bush that his allies have been waiting for emerged this week -- and it was an attack on his family that got him going.

"Let's be clear: Donald Trump simply doesn't know what he's talking about," Bush wrote, adding that Trump's "bluster overcompensates for a shocking lack of knowledge on the complex national-security challenges that will confront the next president."

"Let's be clear: Donald Trump simply doesn't know what he's talking about," Bush wrote, adding that Trump's "bluster overcompensates for a shocking lack of knowledge on the complex national-security challenges that will confront the next president."

Embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has flown to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is now his chief sponsor.

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On September 30, the Russian Air Force began pounding Assad's opponents with airstrikes

Federal investigators from the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday that they had discovered many errors in eligibility decisions under the Affordable Care Act that had led the government to pay for duplicate coverage for some people and an excessive share of costs for others.

The Obama administration, commenting on the reports, said it was stepping up efforts to “prevent duplicate coverage” under Medicaid and government-subsidized private insurance policies sold through the marketplaces.