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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Biden administration on Wednesday issued a final environmental review for a second lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The administration also identified a preferred alternative ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The special counsel overseeing the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump is preparing to drop the prosecutions of the president-elect before he is sworn in, according to a Justice Department official. ...Read more

Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee.

Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s 2016 transition was slowed because, as he admitted at a pre-Christmas rally that year, he didn’t think he would win. Eight tumultuous years later, the president-elect sounded Wednesday ...Read more

Cardi B pulled no punches when she appeared to lash out at Southern states for Donald Trump’s second presidential victory in a quickly deleted clip.

The 32-year-old New York rapper, who has campaigned for Vice President...Read more

A Santa Clara, California, man pleaded guilty this week to fraud for illegally obtaining H-1B visas to use for his company that provides workers for Bay Area technology firms.

Kishore Dattapuram, 55, entered his guilty ...Read more

A 51-year-old Lansing, Illinois, man was identified as one of the workers fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon at Chicago’s Navy Pier, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Lamont Johnson, of the 18300 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The last time Donald Trump was president, California led the liberal resistance to his agenda. Now it is poised to reprise the role.

In fact, as Trump’s return to power came into focus late Tuesday, ...Read more

DETROIT — Republican former President Donald Trump saw increased support in Detroit this election compared with 2016 and 2020, while voter turnout in Michigan's most populous city failed to match city election officials'...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia voters rendered an unmistakable election verdict backing Donald Trump’s White House bid, delivering him a solid victory that reasserted Republican ascendancy in the state and set Democrats down a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove have been placed under quarantine Wednesday in light of an uninvited and unwelcome visitor: the oriental fruit fly, an invasive pest that attacks over 230 crops ...Read more

Now that former President Donald Trump has won his reelection campaign, there are many looming questions about how his next term will impact policies implemented during President Joe Biden’s administration.

Biden and ...Read more

DETROIT — Republican Donald Trump won the presidential vote in the cities of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights in Tuesday's election on his way to winning Michigan after the former president courted voters in Metro Detroit's...Read more

When Hurricane Helene damaged western North Carolina in September, filling medical facilities with people who couldn’t be cared for at home, Jim Polk, a tech executive at Exela Pharmaceutical Sciences in Lenoir, North ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Rafael grew into a major Category 3 storm Wednesday ahead of landfall in Cuba as it headed toward the Gulf of Mexico, while the Florida Keys remained under a ...Read more

The X account run by singer and outspoken Donald Trump critic Bette Midler was no longer online after her nemesis was elected president for the second time Tuesday night.

A message reading “This account doesn’t exist�...Read more

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is on the up and up in her battle with an undisclosed form of cancer; just ask her husband, Prince William.

William offered an update on his wife's health Wednesday as he attended the 2024 ...Read more

CHICAGO — Jurors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan saw a series of undercover videos on Wednesday made by a former ComEd executive detailing an alleged scheme by the utility to funnel ...Read more

ATLANTA — Indie film “Poetic License” featuring Leslie Mann and directed by her daughter Maude Apatow is shooting in metro Atlanta starting Wednesday.

The movie is set for production through Dec. 12, according to an...Read more

When COVID-19 vaccines started becoming widely available in early 2021 and demand for ride-hailing services began to recover, Bay Area company Lyft launched a nationwide campaign to recruit drivers with promises of ...Read more