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President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on.

Congress, controlled by forelock-tugging Republicans, is a passive bystander as the President decides to shovel out 12 billion to compensate farmers for the damage his trade war ' regarding this war, as with real ones, Congress is powerless by choice ' is doing to them.

New Hampshire does an exemplary job managing its natural resources.

Union protestors and celebrity advocates have decided that waiters' tips aren't big enough. They are upset that in 43 states, tipped workers can be paid a lower minimum wage, as low as 2.13 an hour.

We were pleased to see that Hampton selectmen have decided to drop the town's lawsuit seeking additional state funding for Hampton Beach State Park.

ON JULY 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation's Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift.

I'm rhapsodizing about rhubarb for the many fans of this old-fashioned, New Hampshire summer garden favorite.

The Loon Preservation Committee's Summer Nature Talk Series on Thursday, Aug. 9, will be all about New Hampshire's moose.

Easterseals New Hampshire's Military Veterans Services has received a 15,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of the bank, to help provide a safety net of critical case management and emergency assistance for veterans, service members and their families during unexpected crises.

Two airsports athletes are heading to all 50 states this year in a single, unbroken journey to go skydiving in each one, and New Hampshire is the 34th stop on the trip.

The Way Home, a local nonprofit that offers services and support to homeless families and individuals in New Hampshire, is inviting motorcycle riders and friends to hit the road for its ninth annual Freedom Ride on Saturday, Sept. 15.

Paula Richey, a member of American Legion Auxiliary Roland E. Patnode Jr. Unit 7, was recently recognized by the national organization as New Hampshire's Unit Member of the Year.

Police are continuing to investigate a July 24 accident that resulted in serious injuries to a bicyclist.

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman spent more than a million dollars on suits and luxury clothes ' much of it paid with money from undeclared foreign accounts that he did not report to the IRS, federal prosecutors told a jury Wednesday.

The Trump administration said it's weighing whether to increase the proposed tariff on 200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent, stepping up pressure on Beijing to change its trade practices.

As fire crews struggled to gain containment on more than a dozen wildfires raging across California on Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown told reporters that large, destructive fires would probably continue and cost the state billions of dollars over the next decade.

It's not Super Bowl Sunday or even New Year's Eve that makes for the most lethal day on U.S. highways. It's Aug. 2.

A Salem woman pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to illegally buying firearms for a Massachusetts man.

LET'S START the new month off on the right foot a welcome change with an apology or two and the reasons not excuses for them.

A judge has ruled that the defendants in a medical malpractice suit have no right to view a statement the plaintiff's widow wrote a few days after her husband's death but before she hired a lawyer.