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The federal minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 per hour. But many states have pushed wage floors higher over the years. Now, 18 states and 20 localities will raise their minimum wage on Jan. 1.

Allan Simmons has been accused of cheating in a professional Scrabble Championship in June. The former British Scrabble champion has now been banned from professional competition after he was found to have peeked at the tiles he was drawing.

They won before a sell-out crowd in Paris on Sunday. It was a gem of a game for the team, which controlled play from the beginning with crisp and precise passes. The win assures the U.S. will advance.

The first bill House Democrats' will vote on would establish automatic voter registration, strengthen the Voting Rights Act, limit partisan redistricting and tighten campaign finance laws.

Drivers might be cheering OPEC's decision to increase oil production, but analysts say the extra supply isn't expected to drive gasoline prices down in time for summer vacation season.

The United States women's hockey team is an Olympic gold medal winner once again. The U.S. beat four-time defending gold medalist Canada in a thrilling game that went into overtime and then a shootout.

Fully intact buildings stood right next to where others had been flattened. Families walked together in the streets, dressed-up in fancy clothes to visit relatives for Eid.

Rep. James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House, is embarking on a listening tour to talk up the Biden administration's federal aid package and push for Medicaid expansion in states that have not taken that step.

Goldman Sachs says it's "winding down its business in Russia in compliance with regulatory and licensing requirements," two weeks after the country first invaded Ukraine.

Novelists Aatish Taseer and Naomi Benaron portray life amid sectarian violence in Pakistan and Rwanda, respectively, while Glenn Carle reflects on being a CIA interrogator, novelist Jonathan Lethem explores his influences, and David Bellos probes translation's complexity.