The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...

Election denier groups are filing public records requests with counties asking for records that could be used to cast doubt on the November elections.

Packaging magnate and Illinois businessman Richard Uhilein and venture capitalists Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are among the big spenders bankrolling California’s voter ID measure.

California Supreme Court justices wasted no time Wednesday jumping into the deep end of several complex issues at the heart of an ongoing lawsuit over

Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly begged a Trump donor to wire $100K straight to her American Express account ... messaging him "Honey please" as part of her plea.

In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can’t pay.

“Until we can figure out a way to ban rape on campus we should not in any capacity be trying to figure out how to ban a book about it,” one librarian said.

“She hopes that by speaking about her experience, others will know they are not alone,” Democrat Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s spokesperson said.

WASHINGTON — Rebecca Myers lives in one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional districts, and tariffs were on her mind as she voted early and in-person in Suffolk, Virginia in late Septemb...

An ectopic pregnancy is not supposed to be a death sentence.As an emergency physician, I know exactly what is at stake when a patient comes into the ER with one. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a pre...

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton suggested he would support cuts to federal benefits programs during a private fundraiser with Washington lobbyists last month, according to an audio recording...

A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers.

Current and former Lincoln University students are suing the State of Missouri for nearly $550 million to address what they allege are decades of inequitable funding that they say has hurt the college...

Gov. JB Pritzker declared the entire state a disaster area on Tuesday due to the rising cost of diesel fuel and took executive action aimed at reigning in prices.

TOPEKA — A nationwide campaign to dismantle access to in-state college tuition for children of immigrants is “as much a threat to rule of law as what we see in the streets,” said an attorney for a Lat...

WASHINGTON — Leading immigration advocates and experts sounded the alarm Wednesday on the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to undo state laws allowing some immigrants to pay in-state college tu...

The idea of scrapping the U.S. health insurance system for a massive expansion of government-funded healthcare isn’t new. But voters hit by ballooning private health insurance costs are rallying behin...

It’s been more than a year since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and SNAP enrollment is down more than 20% in Louisiana. Anti-hunger groups say far more people could lose...

The Danish artist behind the 23-karat-gold-coated artwork revealed what he’d tell the president face-to-face.

Melissa Pearson owns and operates a cleaning business in Wheeling, West Virginia, where her team focuses on customer satisfaction while scrubbing and tidying homes and commercial properties. A mom of ...

When truck stops and gas stations erected their signs, they didn’t anticipate needing two digits before the decimal point. But an Ohio-based data analyst who used to work in the energy industry says i...

As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists plan to push more states to require women to visit a doctor’s office, get an ultrasound ...

The chief lawyer for New Mexico’s Office of the State Engineer told legislators this week that the state is pushing back against the Trump administration’s announcement of a “waiver” of all the state’...

The Louisiana Secretary of State’s office expects to restore the correct status for thousands of voters by Wednesday after a mishap during routine maintenance earlier this week switched them to inacti...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — More than four hundred Washingtonians across 19 locations took to the streets Sunday to demand a statewide moratorium on data centers. In Walla Walla, where a $4.8 billion Amazon ...

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Completely unfit for office.

Highlands Community and Technical Schools last year was accused of misspending $180 million. Negotiations over repayment broke down.

Hanford-area landowners and pumpers will soon be able to track their pumping allocation and groundwater usage as the Mid-Kings River Groundwater

August Hanning led the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, from 1998 to 2005.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is condemning what it calls a lack of communication between state agencies and tribal communities after nine wolves were trapped and euthanized in Pri...

The U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement facility in Scarborough had been set up as an administrative facility. But more detentions are happening there this year, including overnight, often just th...

California lawmakers passed a healthcare tax in June that could increase premiums by $100 annually, but groups representing doctors and insurers say it violates the law.

Tens of millions of dollars in food benefits for California families are about to expire. Here’s how to use the money.

It was the simplest of mistakes.  The city sent bad billing information on roughly 87,700 customers to the county tax collector’s office. An employee transferring the data from Salesforce into […]

This post first appeared in the Morning Report. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City provides no lack of municipal FOMO for cynical San Diegans, but the city’s latest expansion of […]

A groundbreaking ceremony in southern Tulare County last week signaled the start of another chapter in the long and expensive effort to fix the sinking

Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...