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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- After four decades of dead ends, Sacramento law enforcement leaders announced Wednesday they arrested the man they believe was the East Area Rapist who killed and terrorized people in the 1970s and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- French President Emmanuel Macron told a joint session of Congress on Wednesday that the United States should stay in the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate change accord, both international deals that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The United States has slipped again among countries in an annual ranking of freedom of the press, according to a study that says a "climate of hatred" is growing worldwide toward the news media.

Citing the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities have arrested a former police officer who is suspected of being one of California's most prolific serial killers and rapists -- the Golden State Killer.

According to law enforcement sources who ...Read more

MIAMI -- The rapid intensification of hurricanes, a fearful development that forecasters still struggle to predict, may be tied to an inner battle between a storm's thunderstorms and winds.

Forecasters typically look at ...Read more

BEIJING -- President Donald Trump is dispatching two of his top economic deputies to China in hopes of a quick deal on trade. They may find the reality on the ground more daunting.

Trump said on Tuesday that Treasury ...Read more

DALLAS -- One police officer has died and another was critically wounded in a shooting Tuesday by a gunman inside a Home Depot store in northeast Dallas, which set off a five-hour manhunt that ended with the chase and ...Read more

CHICAGO -- She was summoned to jury duty at the downtown Daley Center courthouse, but the Chicago attorney and mother to a newborn said she couldn't fulfill her civic duty because there was no private place to pump breast ...Read more

Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Rome has the Colosseum.

What, to the chagrin of city leaders, does the tiny community of Edgerton, Kan., in Johnson County have?

Just inside its northern border, it's got a weather-beaten 1987...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional baseball coach Roger Williams was hitting infield practice Wednesday morning as Rodney Davis played catcher and Williams staffer Zack Barth backed them up around a flooded batters ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Globe-trotting fans of the Golden Arches may find some of their favorites in the new McDonald's opening Wednesday in Chicago's booming Fulton Market district.

McSpicy Chicken Sandwich from Hong Kong, anyone? ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The numbers are eye-popping. On Monday, EMILY's List, a political organization dedicated to electing Democratic women to office, announced that over 36,000 women had contacted them about running for office ...Read more

WASHINGTON--There are really just three ways to give up a seat in Congress on your own timetable: retire, resign or quit. And the method with the least attractive connotations has become particularly popular in the last ...Read more

One advantage of playing the same role for 15 seasons? "You can transform your character over several years," said Brian Dietzen, who plays Dr. Jimmy Palmer on the long-running CBS procedural "NCIS."

Easily intimidated ...Read more

The news-making thing to do in 2018 for classic rockers of a certain age is to call it quits.

Or at least say that you're planning to -- once that one last tour is under your belt. Over the winter, Elton John, Paul Simon,...Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Aaliyah Ramos was walking through the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus last year when a prospective student approached her.

Ramos was the only black person, the young woman said, that she and her...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- A sailor was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of possessing 20 military-grade grenades that had been stolen from a San Diego-based Navy destroyer -- explosives that were later found abandoned on the side ...Read more

NEWARK, N.J. -- Chris Christie is no longer governor of New Jersey, but the political scandal that helped derail his bid for the White House hasn't gone away.

Four and a half years after Christie loyalists caused ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has filed paperwork to establish a legal expense fund amid an ongoing federal criminal investigation into whether he misused campaign cash.

Hunter filed the required paperwork ...Read more

DES MOINES -- A year ago, Wells Fargo & Co. shareholders voted in droves against some of the bank's longest-serving board members, a revolt sparked by the scandal over unauthorized bank accounts.

But 12 months later, even...Read more