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WASHINGTON — After helping to foment a right-wing rebellion that dealt Representative Kevin McCarthy three humiliating losses on Tuesday in his bid to become speaker, Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, added...

Another powerful atmospheric river storm threatens California with more flooding, landslides and damaging winds in the next two days as the storm that drenched the state last week now drifts across the...

STROUDSBURG, Pa. — The graduate criminology student accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students agreed in his first public court appearance on Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania to Idaho...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday began their new majority rule with a chaotic and historic debacle, an embarrassing failure to rally around a leader that showcased the difficulties they will face...

MCKINNEY, Texas — A pounding stretch of rain, wind and snow that cut a destructive path through California pushed east toward the Midwest and Southern states on Tuesday, threatening to bring heavy...

WASHINGTON — With a popular Democratic president in the White House and big Democratic majorities in Congress, an emboldened Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2009 pushed through a major climate change measure despite...

A police chief was fatally shot and an officer was wounded outside of Pittsburgh on Monday during the pursuit of a suspect wanted for a probation violation, Allegheny County authorities said.Christopher Kearns,...

Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, the Memphis rapper and former member of Three 6 Mafia who, as Gangsta Boo, helped define the genre in the South with her confident flows and forged a path...

WASHINGTON — A big factor in Representative Kevin McCarthy’s favor as he labors to become speaker of the House is that no viable candidate has emerged to challenge him.Even though a group...

ISTANBUL — Hulking ships carrying Ukrainian wheat and other grains are backed up along the Bosporus here in Istanbul as they await inspections before moving on to ports around the world.The number...