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CHICAGO — The man in a blue Hawaiian shirt paced up and down the line of fellow protesters outside the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, shouting into a megaphone with the fervor of someone leading the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles county line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’d be willing to meet with Vladimir Putin, even if the Russian leader hadn’t yet agreed to also sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The signal from Trump suggested an ...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Miami wants another day in court.

Last week, a three-judge panel with Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s ruling that found the city’s decision to postpone the ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — The trauma among Oaklanders after a grueling spike in violence and property crime during the COVID-19 pandemic may not yet be healed, but now even the fiercest tough-on-crime voices here have begun to ...Read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs terminated contracts for most bargaining-unit workers Wednesday, a move regional union leaders are calling “retaliation” for their opposition to Trump administration layoffs.

In a ...Read more

Stanford University's student newspaper is suing the Trump administration, claiming the threat to deport foreign students for speaking out against Israel's handling of the war in Gaza is chilling free speech.

That threat ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami has ordered construction halted for two weeks at Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades, handing a victory to critics concerned about the potential environmental ...Read more

DENVER — A retired Aurora police detective who spent 41 years on the job kept 30 boxes of investigative material in his home under his floorboards for years, Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a news conference Thursday.

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LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles County line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster ...Read more

“South Park” continued with its blistering mockery of the Trump administration in the second episode of the latest season.

In “Got a Nut,” which debuted on Wednesday, the Comedy Central cartoon set its aims on ...Read more

Fewer Kentucky kindergarten students have received the vaccines required to attend school, and data from the state’s School Immunizations Survey shows religious objections are a growing reason why.

State data for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peace summit with expectation that the pair will sign an agreement seeking to end decades of conflict between the South ...Read more

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said this week the Trump administration plans to review and potentially alter the nation’s climate science reports.

In a Tuesday appearance on CNN’s The Source, Wright told CNN host...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Ada County Democrats have launched billboards attacking Idaho’s Republican congressional delegation for their votes supporting President Donald Trump’s budget bill, the start of what they called an “...Read more

Two Pennsylvania state troopers were shot in an ambush responding to a call in Susquehanna County on Thursday morning, and the suspected gunman is dead, authorities said.

Troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to free up its mass deportation efforts across Southern California on Thursday, seeking to lift a ban on “roving patrols” implemented after a lower ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 600-acre brush fire burning in Ventura County on Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and put nearby communities in the Santa Clarita Valley on high alert amid a major heat wave ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he had chosen Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Stephen Miran to serve as a Federal Reserve governor.

“He has been with me from the beginning of my Second Term, and his ...Read more

HINESVILLE, Ga. — Sgt. Aaron Turner said he was working at Fort Stewart on Wednesday morning when someone told him a gunman was firing in a neighboring building.

Moments later as he was helping secure the post, Turner ...Read more