SAN DIEGO -- Construction began Friday on the future Harvey Milk, a fleet oiler named for the slain gay rights leader and the first openly gay man elected in California.

Milk was elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors in 1978 and was assassinated 10 months later by an ex-supervisor. His life was the subject of the 2008 film "Milk."

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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ordered the State Department on Friday to expand its search for records of communication between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, regarding Ukraine policy.

The State Department released a number of records last month documenting contact between the two men....Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A hulking, unfinished mansion perched on a Bel-Air hillside must be torn down to the slab, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge said in a recent ruling, declaring it a "danger to the public."

But a bankruptcy filing has put that order on hold, alarming neighbors who pushed for the teardown of the mammoth building that has spurred ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump is trading insults with Kim Jong-un, North Korea is launching missiles and no one's talking about disarmament. It's beginning to feel like the days of "fire and fury" are here again.

Or maybe not. While Kim's nuclear arsenal is believed to have only grown more dangerous in the two years since Trump last threatened to...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Gov. Tim Walz notified the Trump administration Friday that the state will continue to welcome refugees, pointedly saying that the "inn is not full in Minnesota."

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Walz wrote that he rejects the intent of President Donald Trump's recent executive order requiring state and local ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- An audit commissioned by new members of the University of Maryland Medical System's board of directors has determined that top system officials never read former Mayor Catherine Pugh's "Healthy Holly" books for children or checked to see if they were printed before paying her $500,000 in five installments.

"There is no evidence ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur on Friday after reports about the online talk show host making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.

The Democratic presidential candidate had said Thursday that Uygur, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump's appeal and decide whether the Constitution shields his tax returns and business records from being released to House Democrats and New York prosecutors.

The court's action sets the stage for a politically charged decision next year, just as Trump campaigns for ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The United States and China have reached a preliminary trade agreement that includes the cancellation and rollback of some tariffs on Chinese products and a commitment by Beijing to step up purchases of American farm goods.

An agreement on the so-called phase one deal, confirmed by President Donald Trump and senior Chinese ...Read more

LONDON -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson told British voters he wants to build a "people's government" after his Conservatives won a resounding victory in a snap general election on Friday.

The Conservatives won a majority of 80 seats from a vote share of 44% under Britain's constituency based, first-past-the-post electoral system.

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MIAMI -- Federal agents have seized $250 million from convicted ex-Venezuelan national treasurer Alejandro Andrade, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for his central role in a $1 billion money laundering scheme that allowed him to hide a fortune in overseas banks as well as luxury real estate in South Florida.

Officials with Homeland ...Read more