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By JOSHUA GOODMAN

BOGOTA, Colombia — After five decades of war, more than four years of negotiations and two signing ceremonies, Colombia’s congress late Wednesday formally ratified a peace agreement allowing leftist rebels to enter politics.The 310-page revised accord...

By FERNANDO VERGARA and JOSHUA GOODMAN

MEDELLIN, Colombia — The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording...

By JAY REEVES

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Tornadoes that dropped out of the night sky killed five people in two states and injured at least a dozen more early Wednesday, adding to a seemingly biblical onslaught of drought, flood and fire plaguing the South.The storms tore...

By JULIE PACE and LAURIE KELLMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s leaving his business empire to focus on being the nation’s 45th president, bowing to pressure to avoid potential conflicts of interest between governing and profiting in the...

By BOB SALSBERG

BOSTON — Hundreds of people rallied and nearly three dozen were arrested on Tuesday during a protest held for a $15-per-hour minimum wage.State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, an Acton Democrat, was among those taken into custody after a group of minimum wage...

By COLLIN BINKLEY

BOSTON — After nearing collapse under the Obama administration, the for-profit college industry is celebrating Donald Trump’s election as a chance for a rebound.As stock prices for some of the nation’s largest college chains have surged, industry...

By BLAKE NICHOLSON

BISMARCK, N.D. — The hundreds of arrests during the months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota have created an unprecedented burden for the state’s court system, which faces huge cost overruns and doesn’t have enough...

By RONALD BLUM

NEW YORK — Negotiators for baseball players and owners are meeting this week in Irving, Texas, in an attempt to reach agreement on a collective bargaining agreement to replace the five-year contract that expires Thursday. After eight work stoppages...

By BERNARD CONDON

US stocks rise to fresh records in shortened sessionNEW YORK — Stocks hit fresh records in a shortened trading session Friday as investors continued to bet on a pickup in economic growth and rising corporate profits.The gains were modest but broad,...

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

NEW YORK — Shoppers were on the hunt for deals and were at the stores for entertainment Friday as malls opened for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the holiday season edges ever earlier.Julie Singewald’s Black...

By JANIE McCAULEY

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Not even in grade school, Tom Brady cried from his seat at The Stick when Dwight Clark made “The Catch.” The New England quarterback had so counted on playing at Candlestick Park in 2008, his first NFL game back home in the Bay...

By DAVE COLLINS and LISA MARIE PANE

HARTFORD, Conn. — Police departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits, from lowering educational requirements to forgiving some prior drug use, to try to attract more people to their ranks.The changes are designed to deal with...

By KYLE HIGHTOWER

FOXBOROUGH — Pete Carroll knows he can’t go back in time to 1997 when he arrived in New England as the Patriots’ giddy 46-year-old new head coach.But if he could, he says he certainly would have done things a lot differently.It’s been 17 years since...

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN

HAVANA — For a while Saul Berenthal and Horace Clemmons were the seventy-something poster boys of U.S.-Cuba detente.The retired software entrepreneurs made worldwide headlines by winning Obama administration permission to build the first U.S. factory...

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s lawyers pressed a judge Tuesday to keep the comedian’s damaging deposition in a decade-old lawsuit out of his sexual assault trial, saying Cosby agreed to answer questions under oath after being assured he wouldn’t be...

By DENISE LAVOIE

BOSTON — A federal judge on Tuesday questioned lawyers for Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi on the severity of DiMasi’s health problems as the once-powerful Democrat seeks an early end to his eight-year prison sentence on public corruption...

By BRIAN WITTE

BALTIMORE — A school bus was blocks away from its first stop Tuesday morning when it hit a cemetery wall, rear-ended a car and then ricocheted off a roadside pillar into an oncoming commuter bus. The pre-dawn accident killed six people and injured 10,...

By PHILIP MARCELO

NATICK — President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it a “date which will live in infamy” — and three-quarters of a century later, relics from that audacious attack still conjure strong emotions.A new exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the...

By DENISE LAVOIE

BOSTON — Five alleged associates of the New York-based Genovese crime family were arrested on extortion-related charges Thursday in Massachusetts as part of a huge East Coast mob sweep.The men were accused of committing crimes in Springfield,...

By ADRIAN SAINZ and HILLEL ITALIE

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Scotty Moore, the pioneering rock guitarist whose sharp, graceful style helped Elvis Presley shape his revolutionary sound and inspired a generation of musicians that included Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Bruce Springsteen, died...