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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania budget season unlike any other has arrived in Harrisburg, and the pile of challenges facing negotiators ahead of the June 30 deadline appears immense.

A new administration in Washington,...Read more

National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday under orders from President Donald Trump, escalating a showdown with California leaders who say the federal deployment is politically driven and unnecessary.

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When racial justice protests roiled cities across America at the depths of the pandemic, President Trump, then in his first term, demonstrated restraint. Threats to invoke the Insurrection Act and to federalize the ...Read more

Karen Read retrial jurors could enter deliberations possibly this week as the defense’s case has already doubled its length from last year.

“They’ve presented a lot more evidence than most murder defendants,” ...Read more

Kyiv’s armed forces rejected as “disinformation” Russia’s claim that its ground troops have crossed into Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time, even as prospects for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire remain ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A subtle shift was happening among clients at the north Minneapolis community drop-in center.

For years, people seeking substance abuse services at Anything Helps reported using just one drug of choice. ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The LGBTQ Pride month parades and festivals will go on.

But in the current political environment, organizers of the events in South Florida and across the nation are feeling pressure.

Hostility ...Read more

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three chemotherapy pills to treat her squamous cell carcinoma on Jan. 29, her family ...Read more

Public outcry was swift and forceful after a U.S. House committee last month hastily approved an amendment directing the federal government to sell off more than half a million acres of public land.

A few days later, ...Read more

MIAMI — In January, a man returning to the United States from Nicaragua landed at Miami International Airport, made it through customs and waited for his luggage at baggage claim. By the time he left the airport, U.S. ...Read more

Surgeons are operating on Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay after an assassination attempt that recalled the political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and 1990s.

Uribe’s wife said the 39-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration said it would send 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses.

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Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at a campaign event in Bogota on Saturday in an act reminiscent of the drug-fueled political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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NEW YORK — Multiple demonstrators were taken into custody Saturday afternoon during a protest against Immigration and Customs enforcement in Lower Manhattan in response to ongoing migrant arrests this week.

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CHICAGO — A bottlenose dolphin safely delivered a calf early Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth in more than a decade at the west suburban zoo.

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LAS VEGAS — It’s not a good sign in Carson City when members of your own party vote down your bill.

But with less than two hours left in the Nevada Legislature’s 83rd session, a new version of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Trump administration official said National Guard troops would be sent into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses.

Around 4 p.m...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has reached an agreement with City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson to find the money to reverse the cuts to police hiring made last month by the council.

On Friday, ...Read more

ATLANTA — South Georgia could soon be home to the country’s largest immigrant jail.

Local officials approved a plan this week to markedly increase capacity at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located ...Read more

Beijing says it granted approval to some applications for the export of rare earths, a move that could ease tensions before trade negotiations between the U.S. and China next week.

The Chinese commerce ministry confirmed...Read more