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The U.S. Labor Department told all 50 states on Wednesday that they need to get serious about fighting fraud and waste in unemployment insurance, or else they won't get more money for those programs from the federal government.

Firms with LGBT ownership have an advantage in winning contracts from the California Public Utilities Commission -- but only if they can prove their proprietors are truly gay.

Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez is making a second push to hold parents financially responsible for their children's participation in increasingly violent street takeovers, putting him at odds with Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has resisted punitive measures ...

Cameron Hamilton, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pledged to senators Wednesday to be "fair and reasonable" in assessing requests for disaster aid as he seeks to run an agency roiled by the ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana panned President Trump's first-stage peace deal with Iran on Wednesday, calling it "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades."

The Justice Department is suing Evanston, Illinois, to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations program that has handed out more than $5 million to Black residents who said they were hurt by housing discrimination.

HILLARY CLINTON on Biden running for reelection: "He made a terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country."

Georgia Republicans on Wednesday rejected Gov. Brian Kemp's calls to redraw the state's congressional and legislative maps, holding off due to the Supreme Court's landmark decision that restricts states' use of the federal Voting Rights Act to add ...

President Trump delivered a vocal sales pitch Wednesday for the peace pact between Iran and the U.S., saying the first-stage deal will forestall Tehran's nuclear ambitions and avoid the "economic catastrophe" that would have unfolded if bombs kept ...

Streamer HASAN PIKER on Israel: "I think Israel, in its current formation, given that it's a settler colonial operation that's seeking out the expulsion or complete extermination of the indigenous population as an apartheid state, does not have a ...