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President Donald Trump on Thursday called on officials to shift votes in the still-uncalled Alaska Senate race to Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, in order to defeat Democrat Mary Peltola, who holds a narrow lead.

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MINNEAPOLIS — State lawmakers and Gov. Tim Walz joined members of the Hortman family Thursday morning to unveil signs renaming Minnesota Highway 610 in honor of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark....Read more

The Trump administration on Thursday extended its sanctions on Cuba to the island’s electronics, manufacturing, marine and technology sectors and punished Guillermo Faustino Rodríguez López-Calleja, a shadowy figure ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — One of Gov.-elect Amy Klobuchar’s first jobs in St. Paul in January will be to name her replacement to the U.S. Senate.

The appointed senator will serve until a new special election is called, which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Culver City ballot measure that would give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal and school board elections was trailing Thursday.

Ballots still were being counted, but Measure YV was ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Tom McClintock won another term representing California’s 5th Congressional District despite a Democratic-backed redistricting effort that reshaped his sprawling Sierra Nevada and Central ...Read more

Two days after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death in his second-floor bedroom in the hills above Port-au-Prince, Tampa businessman Frederick Bergmann called his longtime friend in the Haitian capital and ...Read more

The fears had shadowed Wall Street off and on for months. Then, all at once, everyone rushed for the exits.

The stock-market rout on Thursday, which began soon after the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been barred from driving for six months after a hit-and-run crash into a parked car, prosecutors said.

Paul Pelosi, 86, pleaded no contest to...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Downtown Fort Worth rolled out the red carpet Wednesday evening for a film about the life of Jimmy Stewart.

“Jimmy” is directed by Aaron Burns and stars KJ Apa as the leading man, alongside Max ...Read more

Harmeet Dhillon, the conservative California lawyer who became the face of the Trump administration’s use of the legal system to advance its aims in the culture wars, resigned Thursday as head of the U.S. Department of ...Read more

A NASA rocket launch for a lunar mission may have punched a hole in Earth’s atmosphere, potentially disrupting GPS signals, a new study found.

The Artemis II mission launched April 1 from Florida, carrying astronauts ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The head of a South Los Angeles nonprofit gang intervention program has been arrested by LAPD homicide detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, along with four others accused in the killing. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California Supreme Court on Thursday that he will commute the death sentences of all 548 state prisoners awaiting execution, reducing their punishments to life in prison ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, a prolific Democratic lawmaker who has reshaped state policy on a host of fronts — from housing to transgender rights — will succeed House Speaker ...Read more

The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge over California’s social media restrictions.

Technology companies Google, Meta and Tik Tok sued the state of California on Wednesday to block a new law that restricts companies ...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, has lost his race for reelection, a stinging defeat for the man charged with preserving the House majority...Read more

State officials have approved the final key permit needed to build the largest new reservoir in California in 50 years, a project supporters say will supply water to millions of Californians from the East Bay and Silicon ...Read more

Nicolas Cage is prioritising his children over his acting career.

The 62-year-old movie star has revealed that August, his four-year-old daughter, is his undoubted "priority" at the moment - not his film career.

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Sienna Miller would allow her son to play American football for a living.

The 44-year-old actress gave birth to a baby boy in April, and Sienna has revealed that she wouldn't stop him from pursuing a career in gridiron ...Read more