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SACRAMENTO — On a Saturday night in December, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was so frustrated by a Supreme Court decision allowing Texas residents to sue abortion providers that he went straight...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Thomas Lane, a former Minneapolis police officer who held down George Floyd’s legs as he gasped for air while dying under the knee of another officer, was sentenced...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to restore immigration enforcement guidelines issued by the Biden administration that have been blocked by a federal judge in Texas who said...

So in 1982, he took out a loan to buy a liquor store in Richmond, a small city about a half-hour southeast of Lexington. Southern Kentucky in the 1980s and 1990s was...

Lucy Calkins, a professor at Columbia University, has long been a controversial figure in the education world for her approach to teaching reading. Her eagerly anticipated new curriculum was meant to address...

A man struck a family with his vehicle as they were walking beside a roadway near Glacier National Park in Montana on Sunday and then fired at them with a shotgun, killing...

A Democratic super PAC filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, seeking to force officials to take action against Donald J. Trump for all but running for president in...

About 100 million Americans from California to New England were sweating through heat advisories and warnings from the National Weather Service on Wednesday, with a brutal heat wave across the central part...

Jim Harbaugh, the University of Michigan’s head football coach, professed his anti-abortion views at a fund-raising event this week, becoming one of the first prominent sports figures to speak out against abortion...

Maryland voters in both parties were watching returns late Tuesday in competitive primary elections for governor that pitted experienced leaders against political outsiders vowing to shake up the system, and that could...