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The decision of the Irish government to recognize Palestinian statehood has taken formal effect more than 40 years after Ireland first called for a Palestinian state.

Just after midnight on May 17, 2004, same-sex couples began filling out marriage license applications at Cambridge City Hall. One married couple looks back on their wedding and how it's gone since.

A New York City jury convicted the New Jersey senator of accepting bribes to benefit businessmen in his home state and the governments of Egypt and Qatar.

Veterans of the FBI are demanding answers after more senior executives left the bureau recently without a clear explanation for their termination.

At a resort in Mexico, Julie Moore flew off a waterslide and hit the water hard. She became disoriented and began to lose consciousness. Then, she felt hands grab her and pull.

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.

The Senate failed to advance two partisan bills that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked as the shutdown drags on.

Visitors to the White House will now have something besides their memory to rely on when recounting their visit. That's because a 40-year-ban on photography during public tours has been lifted.

Members of a union representing federal workers said it has been waiting for guidance from the CDC and its parent agency on whether telework will be considered an accommodation under its revised policy.

White House economist Stephen Miran appears likely to win confirmation for a job on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, after a contentious hearing Thursday.