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Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race. The 43-year-old mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan is a moderate Democrat who has built his profile mainly by criticizing Gov.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are poised to vote on a plan to reshape a majority-Black congressional district.

A judge says Alaska wildlife agents can resume shooting and killing bears as part of a plan to help recover a herd of caribou that was once an important source of food for Alaska Native hunters.

"The Book of Mormon" will close through May 17 after a fire shut down the musical. The blaze began May 4 in an electrical room, causing substantial damage to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Federal authorities say they've arrested 18 people on charges related to selling illicit drugs around a Los Angeles Park. First Assistant U.S.

A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for impersonating a student at a New York City high school. According to a criminal complaint, Kacy Claassen enrolled at Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx on April 13, claiming to be a 16-year-old named ...

President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.

Like "Shaun the Sheep," "The Sheep Detectives" takes place in the verdant English countryside and concerns barnyard animals with higher-than-usual IQs.

Seven months after axing their own seawater desalination plant project -- and five months from when a water crisis is expected to surface -- Corpus Christi City Council voted 6-2 Tuesday to begin preliminary talks with a new company to build a ...

Police say a man accused of shooting five people, killing two, in back-to-back shootings at a shopping center and an apartment building in suburban Dallas has been charged with two counts of capital murder.