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NEW YORK — Thousands of American football fans wonder whether it’s worth it to see the Super Bowl in person. You could take a once-in-a-lifetime plunge and spend perhaps tens of thousands of dollars to get yourself to Glendale, Arizona, to watch the Seattle Seahawks take on the...

NEW YORK — Joe and Debbie Valerio, a couple in their 60s, put their Westport, Connecticut, home of more than 20 years on the market because...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama challenged the Republican-led Congress Tuesday to break out of the “tired old patterns” of confrontational...

DALTON, Georgia — Barack Obama enters the final two years of his presidency with a blemish on his legacy that looks impossible to erase: the decline of the middle class he has promised to rescue. The revival of middle-class jobs has been one of Obama’s mantras since he took office...

FARGO — It’s not something that Jim Kloster talks a lot about. Then again, the retired Lutheran minister from rural Clearbrook, Minn., isn’t known to talk much about himself. So, it wasn’t until his son Colin, a U.S. history teacher at Fargo North High School, mentioned that...

Sue Ann Arnall, the ex-wife of Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm, has deposited a handwritten $975 million divorce check, Hamm's lawyer said on Thursday, in a move that may end an epic divorce battle over a fortune worth billions.

By Archie Ingersoll FARGO – The U.S. Supreme Court is set to meet privately Friday to consider for a second time in recent months whether...

A young woman tells domestic violence advocates she feels trapped with an older man. He’s the only person who can inject her with the heroin to which she’s addicted. “Abusive boyfriend,” the advocates conclude, and they set about trying to help her. They don’t see that...

Two people died and multiple were injured after an elementary school bus and a train collided just east of Larimore just before 4 p.m. Monda...