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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Bill Walker announced Friday he is dropping his bid for re-election and endorsing Democrat Mark Begich against Republican Mike Dunleavy.

Walker, elected as an independent, made the ...Read more

MIAMI -- Before killing 17 people, Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz confided in a 13-year-old girl who lives in Washington state that he felt suicidal and was upset about being bullied.

"He was angry at the school ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken the unusual step of going on the record to deny a news story, and is further asking the news agency that published it for a retraction.

Bloomberg News reported earlier this...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump on Friday directed federal agencies to speed up their environmental review of major water projects in California and to develop plans to suspend or revise regulations that hamper water...Read more

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico -- Thousands of Central Americans in a U.S.-bound migrant caravan began pushing their way from Guatemala into Mexico on Friday, pulling down border fences and storming toward the Mexican immigration ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabia officially acknowledged the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday, saying that he died in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul after a fight and that 18 people had been arrested in connection ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California initiative that would repeal gas tax increases is falling well short of the majority support needed to pass, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, jeopardizing a ...Read more

Family is terrifying.

There, I said it.

Netflix's new horror series, "The Haunting of Hill House" (no relation), is garnering praise for its moody -- if slow-moving -- cinematic scares. But for as much as the eponymous ...Read more

MIAMI -- Democrats have yet to win a House majority and Nancy Pelosi's return as speaker is by no means certain, but already she has one eye on the exits.

"I see myself as a transitional figure," Pelosi said in an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- LaMay Axton watched in horror as her granddaughter Cambria stumbled and toppled over as she ran into the kitchen of their house. The 2-year-old tried to stand back up, but couldn't.

"Her little legs just ...Read more

MIAMI -- In the hyper data world of hurricane forecasting, where history is written in millibars and miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center's 168-year record of Atlantic storms stands as an invaluable index to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- An additional 95 women sued USC this week, saying longtime campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall had sexually assaulted them and that the university had failed to protect them despite complaints.

The ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Tonya Couch, mother of "affluenza teen" Ethan Couch, was released from the Tarrant County jail on Thursday.

Couch, 51, was denied bond in August after violating the terms of her release from jail by ...Read more

"Halloween" producer Jason Blum is apologizing for off-target comments he made about his company's failure to hire female directors for its signature horror genre -- and his perception of their unavailability -- in a ...Read more

There is something of a charade going on in the title of "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" It's not that the protagonist of this smart, bleakly comedic film hasn't done things that need forgiving, it's that indications are she's ...Read more

"Mid90s," the first feature written and directed by Jonah Hill, is set in Los Angeles sometime during -- well, take a wild guess.

One of the first things we see is a bed covered with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" sheets,...Read more

It's the season for tricks and treats and masks and blood and gore and bizarre, probably psychotic fixations, and few film franchises inspire twisted obsessions quite like the "Halloween" collection. John Carpenter's ...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- No one would mistake Sherrod Brown for a Donald Trump supporter.

Yet one of the most solidly liberal Democrats in the U.S. Senate is lining up behind the president on trade in his bid for a third term in...Read more

Google is a technology company, and Amazon is an online retailer, right?

Not according to their financial reports. Amazon is a technology company, and Google is an advertising firm. Both are data giants backed by their ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Car2Go, the company that allows its rental cars to be picked up in one part of a city and dropped off in another, has gained more than 10,000 members in Chicago since a pilot program started in late July, the ...Read more