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Washington — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told congressional leaders that the U.S. has hit the limit on the amount of debt it can issue to fulfill its obligations, initiating “extraordinary measures” that will allow the country to avoid a catastrophic default for at least the next few months. “[T]he period …

Police have identified a person of interest in the shooting during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Florida that left a young mother dead, authorities said Wednesday.  Detectives with the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office identified 27-year-old Frederick Lamar Johnson, Jr. as a person of interest in the …

Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, curators and conservators are using new technologies to unearth old secrets from beneath the canvas. Their findings are part of the …