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Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins conceded Tuesday that it’s too late to change the state’s congressional districts to the gerrymandered map lawmakers passed in 2025.

In a legal filing in the 8th U.S. Circuit ...Read more

Cloud computing giant Oracle is laying off more employees this week as it extends a multibillion-dollar restructuring plan. The job cuts include 359 in Seattle, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday.

The Austin, ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at protecting bees and other critical pollinators as they face compounding threats from climate change, habitat loss and pesticides.

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Get ready for another storm to descend on Buckingham Palace and the reign of King Charles III following the tempestuous return of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the United Kingdom.

The Daily Mail on Wednesday published...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It appears Judge Judy has kicked off her retirement tour.

"Judy Justice" star Judy Sheindlin appeared with her son Adam Levy on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday to celebrate her 30th anniversary on TV, ...Read more

Ed Sheeran, one of the most inoffensive pop artists of the 2010s and ’20s, is feeling the heat for his “apolitical” stance — which is all of a sudden very political.

The “Shape of You” singer-songwriter has ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York teachers unions and supporters in the labor movement and the Democratic Party rallied Wednesday to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject President Donald Trump’s signature school voucher plan.

Hochul, a...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland comptroller’s office failed to use available enforcement measures to pursue hundreds of millions of dollars in delinquent taxes from individuals and businesses since 2022, according to a state ...Read more

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point and penciled in an additional hike later this year, steps aimed at containing inflation that will test Chairman Kevin Warsh’s relationship with ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A California man accused of defacing some five dozen political signs in the Las Vegas Valley pleaded no contest to a gross misdemeanor in court early Wednesday and was sentenced to 30 days in jail along with ...Read more

President Donald Trump has removed Venezuela from a U.S. list of countries deemed to have failed to meet their international counternarcotics obligations, citing increased cooperation with interim President Delcy Rodrí...Read more

WASHINGTON — A House Freedom Caucus push for a vote on legislation to suspend federal motor fuel taxes amid war-driven pain at the pump was thwarted Tuesday after a group of rebels briefly held up floor action on other ...Read more

The U.S. national debt now exceeds $40 trillion — a MEGO number, which stands for "my eyes glaze over." Why should you care? No one else seems worried. Not Congress, for sure. They just keep spending and borrowing more. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Lawyers for the “Broadview Six” are urging a federal judge to order the Chicago U.S. attorney’s office to divulge any communications with officials in Washington about the controversial case, saying in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lena Dunham is a mom.

The "Girls" actor welcomed a daughter via surrogate with her husband Luis Felber, news she shared Wednesday in an op-ed published in Vogue.

"My husband was better at the waiting, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cher’s son Elijah Blue Allman has been indicted on a felony criminal mischief charge months after he was busted for breaking into a New Hampshire home, where he then lounged on the couch and enjoyed a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Veteran tough-guy actor Robert De Niro’s soft side surfaced when comedian Amy Poehler punctured his characteristic taciturn demeanor while commending his advocacy — and brought him to tears.

As they wound...Read more

RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Abigail Spanberger has declared a state of the emergency to help Virginia farmers facing a statewide hay shortage caused by persistent drought conditions.

The emergency order allows temporary over-...Read more

NEW YORK — New Yorkers are finally going places.

Seventeen state-of-the art new public bathrooms will be open for business soon in neighborhoods across the city under a pilot project designed to bring relief to people ...Read more

Venezuela has released hundreds of political prisoners and eased some of its harshest forms of repression since Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in January, but the security apparatus responsible for years of ...Read more