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By PHILIP MARCELO

BOSTON — Shoe makers are racing to the Boston area as they compete for millennial talent.Reebok picked the city’s rapidly growing Seaport District for its new global headquarters in December, following in the footsteps of New Balance and Converse,...

By KEN POWTAK

BOSTON — A fast start and another solid outing by goaltender Tuukka Rask made for a fairly easy afternoon for the Boston Bruins.Patrice Bergeron and Tim Schaller scored second-period goals Saturday to help the Bruins beat Buffalo 3-1 and complete a...

By MARK GILLISPIE

CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for an airplane that was carrying a beverage distribution company executive and five other people when it vanished over Lake Erie shortly after takeoff from the city’s lakeshore...

By DAVID SHARP

PORTLAND, Maine — The most powerful nor’easter in nearly two years brought heavy snow, powerful winds and even thunder and lightning to northern New England, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark Friday and burying some towns under 2 feet of...

By BASSEM MROUE and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

BEIRUT — A cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey went into effect in war-ravaged Syria at midnight Thursday, a potential breakthrough in the six years of fighting that have left more than a quarter-million people dead and triggered a refugee crisis...

By STEVEN WINE

DAVIE, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins gave up a season-worst 589 yards last week against the Buffalo Bills, allowed five first downs in overtime and still won.“We didn’t stop them,” Pro Bowl defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said, “but when we needed to, we...

By WILL GRAVES

Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different?The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The...

By BULLIT MARQUEZ

BATANGAS, Philippines — A powerful typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines on Monday after killing at least six people and spoiling Christmas in several provinces, where more than 380,000 people abandoned celebrations at home to reach emergency...

By MARK KENNEDY

NEW YORK — Tributes and well-wishes poured in for “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, who was spending Christmas Eve in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency on a flight the day before.“Princess Leia can survive anything!” wrote...

By MATT VOLZ

The email to a group that promotes diversity in northwestern Montana warned that white supremacists would encircle the advocacy organization’s office and end with someone “swinging by a rope from the nearest lamp post.”“Those days are not far off...

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian plane carrying 92 people to an air base in Syria crashed Sunday into the Black Sea minutes after taking off from the city of Sochi, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. There appeared to be no survivors, and those on board included...

By JULIE PACE

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” until the rest of the world “comes to its senses” regarding nuclear weapons.His comments on Twitter...

By WILSON RING

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A new law that will make it easier for people to travel between Canada and the United States will be good for Vermont and other states, even some far from the border, officials said Thursday.U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont was at...

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

JACKSON, Miss. — The arrest of a black man on a charge of burning a black Mississippi church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump” has sparked bickering online and consternation in the community surrounding the church.Andrew McClinton,...

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and RICHARD LARDNER

WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden remains in contact with Russian intelligence services, according to a bipartisan congressional report released at a time when Russia is considered a top national security...

By LISA LERER

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate.Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show...

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and DENISE LAVOIE

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A lawyer for Katherine Russell, widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombers, says the new film “Patriots Day” is unfair because it suggests she knew something was up before the attack and then didn’t cooperate with the investigation...

By KEVIN FREKING

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president, the White House said Monday.Obama has been...

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

WASHINGTON — There were many protesters but few faithless electors as Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote Monday — ensuring he will become America’s 45th president.An effort by anti-Trump forces to persuade Republican electors to abandon the...

By JONATHAN DREW

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina leaders struck a deal Monday to kill the state law widely derided as the “bathroom bill,” after it tarnished the state’s reputation, cost it scores of jobs and contributed to the Republican governor’s narrow...