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Worried about the possibility of losing congressional seats, California Republicans are trying several strategies to fight Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aggressive push to redistrict the state to boost Democrats in response to a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Department of Justice published a new list of immigration “sanctuary jurisdictions” Tuesday, and it includes the entire state of Minnesota.

The designation comes months after the department ...Read more

Is there something really wrong with the nation’s employment counts?

Questions about the quality of the jobs data came into the spotlight this month when President Donald Trump fired the boss of the Bureau of Labor ...Read more

Two Chinese nationals were arrested this week on charges that they sent tens of millions of dollars worth of advanced AI chips made by Nvidia Corp. to China in violation of U.S. export restrictions, according to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In past Olympic Games held on American soil, sitting presidents have served in passive, ceremonial roles. President Donald Trump may have other plans.

An executive order signed by Trump on Tuesday names ...Read more

Almost every week seems to bring a new report that plastic is even worse than had been thought for both human and planetary health. This week, it’s a paper in the Lancet that warns of a “grave, growing” danger from ...Read more

Late 19th-century and early 20th-century historical monuments, representative of California’s early development, once hid under a dense Placer County forest.

The monuments, a 60-foot lime kiln and quarry, could not be ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota purchased a mass notification system several years ago to alert legislators about emergencies, but state leaders didn’t use it on the morning of June 14 when an assassin targeted politicians in ...Read more

Colorado’s Democratic U.S. senators and representatives asked the federal agency regulating Medicaid on Tuesday to reconsider a decision that won’t let Colorado keep toddlers and former prisoners covered.

In November,...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County Board of Commissioners must appoint election critics nominated by the Fulton County Republican Party to the county election board, a superior court judge has ruled.

In an order handed down ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health will be able to fund fewer research grants in fiscal 2026, even if Congress provides increased funding for the agency, due to Trump administration budget maneuvers.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction.

A public health approach ...Read more

Poor H Dock.

When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor’s entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge energy ...Read more

JERUSALEM — Israel is weighing an expansion of its armed presence in Gaza, despite concern by military chiefs and a majority of the country’s public that the move risks jeopardizing the prospect of freeing the ...Read more

BOSTON — Defense attorney Alan Jackson says the “band … is getting back together” as he and colleague Elizabeth Little will be defending Karen Read in a civil suit by the family of John O’Keefe.

Jackson also ...Read more

Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife had a confrontation with a man who told her she was taking up too much room with her false leg.

Heather Mills, 57, shared the incident in a video posted to social media, filmed from her seat ...Read more

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has hinted he is determined to relaunch his showbiz career.

The 55-year-old Bad Boy Records founder rapper is languishing in a a New York jail as he faces sentencing for prostitution-related offences ...Read more

Finn Wolfhard thinks Pope Leo XIV is "cool".

The Stranger Things actor, 22, has been a familiar face on screen since his early teens and while navigating international fame continued to attend a local Catholic school ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities in California are bracing themselves for a prolonged heat wave this week that could amplify the risks of a wildfire and intensify fires already burning in the southern and central portions of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis street named for a segregationist developer may soon be renamed after the state’s first Black woman attorney.

More than 40 people signed up to speak at a Planning Commission hearing on a ...Read more