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BOISE, Idaho — A conservative Christian lobbying group said it’s working with Idaho state lawmakers to rename a state highway after Charlie Kirk.

The 31-year-old conservative activist was fatally shot in September ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County’s district attorney has opened an investigation into claims of fraud within the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Wednesday his office...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Democrats are lining up to run against two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, hoping to capitalize on a series of high-profile controversies they think make the Trump ally vulnerable in the midterm ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s state budget is in a precarious position heading into the next fiscal year — due in part to an AI boom — according to a forecast released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Legislative ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The House is fast-tracking a medical malpractice bill ahead of the 2026 legislative session that’s identical to one Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed earlier this year.

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary ...Read more

The San Antonio man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor Jonathan Joss, the actor best known for his voice work on animated series "King of the Hill," faces a murder charge.

A grand jury in Bexar County, Texas, on ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Current and former members of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration were among the dozens of Sacramento insiders who received FBI letters in recent days notifying them that their phone calls, texts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress’ schedule for next year is set after the Senate rolled out its 2026 calendar Wednesday, a day after the House unveiled its own version.

The Senate calendar, made public by Majority Leader John ...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker met with Pope Leo XIV in Rome on Wednesday, where they discussed the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the two formally invited the pope to visit ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is rejecting the argument that her opposition to two gas pipelines coming to Massachusetts is a contributing factor to soaring energy costs.

Following an event at the State House Wednesday, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Silvia Reyna, a Sacramento-area undocumented woman who is suing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractor for sexual harassment, re-entered the United States on Wednesday — three weeks ...Read more

NEW YORK — Indie rock band the New Pornographers have said they won’t change their name, despite their drummer’s arrest on child pornography charges.

Percussionist Joseph Seiders was booked on child porn and related...Read more

Softened tariffs and tax cuts are expected to boost both the Michigan and national economies with growth expected by 2027 at the latest, according to a new report by University of Michigan economists.

But import taxes and...Read more

CHICAGO — A Chicago federal appeals court on Wednesday put the brakes on a lower court’s preliminary injunction restricting the use of force in Operation Midway Blitz, saying it is “overbroad” and improperly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Travis Hill didn’t satisfy the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee that he’s addressing cultural problems at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, but the panel approved his nomination to ...Read more

Attorney General Pam Bondi raised major doubts Wednesday about how much of the Jeffrey Epstein files she will release to the public even after a bill requiring full transparency won lightning-quick, near-unanimous passage ...Read more

Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees that he will depart the social media giant at the end of the year and start a new company, according to a memo ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A vast canyon of buried garbage has been smoldering inside a landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley, inducing geysers of liquid waste onto the surface and noxious fumes into the air.

In the Inland Empire, ...Read more

Tom Pritzker, cousin to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and a Hyatt Hotels magnate, is repeatedly named in documents released last week from the estate of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The trove of more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans were divided Wednesday over whether to repeal a controversial provision that could net hefty payouts for a cohort of senators whose call records were collected by federal authorities ...Read more