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WASHINGTON -- Government transparency advocates were thrilled last spring when Congress ordered its in-house think tank to publicly release its reports.

Now, groups that lobbied for years to end the secrecy surrounding ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The door to the nonprofit World Relief, tucked between a dance studio and a tutoring company on the second floor of a Garden Grove strip mall, still says "refugee resettlement services."

But it's been ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Many tax-exempt groups that participate in politics will no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department said Monday.

The change means that so-called ...Read more

CHICAGO -- CVS has fired two employees at a store in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood who called the police on a black female customer Saturday after she attempted to use a coupon.

"We have completed our investigation, ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- For Sofya Tsygankova, mental illness first surfaced when she was 18.

Still living in her homeland of Russia, the pianist became depressed after a breakup and her failure to progress in a music ...Read more

MIAMI -- Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's statement to police should be kept "under wraps" to not taint a potential jury pool, his lawyer told a court Monday as a judge continues to weigh whether to release it to the...Read more

Goodbye, Weinstein Co. Hello, Lantern Entertainment.

On Monday, the beleaguered studio wrecked by sexual assault allegations against its co-founder Harvey Weinstein completed the sale of its assets to Lantern Capital ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Kushner Cos. is being investigated in New York over allegations the real-estate company used disruptive construction projects to harass rent-regulated tenants so they'd move out of their apartments.

New York ...Read more

Rapper Cardi B, the Carters, Childish Gambino and Drake lead the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, tipping the scales in favor of hip-hop and R&B artists this year.

Cardi earned 10 nominations, power couple Beyonce...Read more

CHICAGO -- It'll be a busy week for Chance the Rapper. He's finishing up the follow-up album to his Grammy-winning 2016 release "Coloring Book," which he says will be out in a few days. He's preparing to begin work on ...Read more

HELSINKI, Finland -- At a rally before cheering supporters earlier this month in Montana, President Donald Trump declared nonchalantly of his then-upcoming summit with Russia's leader: "I have been preparing for this stuff...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A prominent gun rights advocate and Russian national was arrested in Washington Sunday and accused of conspiring to act as an agent of Russia without registering in the U.S.

Mariia Butina served as a special...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A wildfire burning west of Yosemite National Park doubled in size overnight while crews scrambled to set up defenses around nearby homes, officials said.

Just over 4,300 acres on Sunday, the Ferguson fire ...Read more

Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed acquisition of Tribune Media for $3.9 billion will go to an administrative judge after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday he had "serious concerns" about how...Read more

HELSINKI, Finland -- President Donald Trump slammed the special counsel's investigation into his campaign's possible election collusion with Russia during a stunning news conference Monday alongside President Vladimir ...Read more

CUCUTA, Colombia -- The United States is giving Colombia an additional $6 million in aid to deal with the growing number of Venezuelans crossing the border trying to escape their nation's social unrest and collapsing ...Read more

It's the kind of finale twist television thrives on: After a three-year relationship with Lifetime, "UnREAL" is hooking up with Hulu for its fourth and final season. And it's wasting little time flaunting the new union, ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- A British cave diver involved in the rescue of 12 Thai soccer players and their coach said he would consider taking legal action against Elon Musk after the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive suggested ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Chicago police on Sunday released a snippet of video of a fatal police shooting less than a day after it sparked violent clashes between officers and protesters on the South Side.

The footage, taken from an ...Read more

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- What's a brash male rock star like Harry Styles up to when he covers a song like Little Big Town's "Girl Crush"?

The hit country song -- already a tangle of same-sex female attraction and jealousy -- ...Read more