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From the Midwest to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the season’s first flakes will fly in the days ahead. As of early ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.

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Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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Gas prices are edging up in about half of all states, including Oregon, ahead of Thanksgiving, AAA Oregon/Idaho said Tuesday, ...

A weather pattern change this week will usher in conditions more typical of November to the central and eastern U.S., ...