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A team surveying bighorn sheep for Utah’s wildlife agency found the strange object, 10 to 12 feet tall, embedded in the ground in a remote part of Red Rock Country. It’s probably art, officials said.

The picks are a repudiation of President Trump’s isolationism, but they will have to resolve tensions between an Obama-era approach and the “fresh thinking” the president-elect says he wants.

“This was amazingly irresponsible,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said of the event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 task force now has access to the government agencies leading the pandemic response. Here’s the latest.

Wall Street notched records, as relief settled in that the election is over and Janet Yellen will be the Treasury secretary in the next administration.

A forest health resort promotes its therapeutic waters and fine dining but bristles with anger at any mention of its gruesome past.

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

A lawsuit they filed in 2018 over the network’s coverage of the murder of Mr. Rich, who had been a Democratic aide, comes to an end.

An employee at a Coast Guard testing center entered false scores in exchange for bribes, federal prosecutors say.

The final rankings will not come until at least Dec. 20. But on Tuesday night, the playoff’s selection committee gave an early look at how it is approaching the pandemic-upended year.

The comedian was unhappy that “Chappelle’s Show” was licensed to Netflix and HBO Max, saying that he should have been paid.

The admission in federal court brought a formal end to a major investigation that resulted in a multibillion-dollar settlement between the drug maker and the government.

Civil servants, elected officials and judges did their jobs and protected democracy.

The company, which has largely escaped the scrutiny faced by other social media outfits, is being pushed to restrict misleading videos.

The end of President Trump’s time in office leaves his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, looking for a new home — but they appear to have plans in New Jersey.

Officials have been waiting since July to inspect and repair the FSO Safer, a stricken tanker off the Yemen coast. Houthi rebels have finally given approval, the U.N. said.

The incident caused a national uproar and soul-searching in the Grand Rapids, Mich., police department. Honestie died of Covid-19.

In her lifetime, the Princess of Wales was adored by many women in Africa and the diaspora, who then passed that loyalty on to their daughters.

Philip Brickman was an expert in the psychology of happiness, but he couldn’t make his own pain go away.

#WriteInTrumpForGA was one of Twitter’s top trending topics, though such a campaign might only hurt Republicans.