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WASHINGTON — In the last two months of the fiscal year that ends Wednesday, the Pentagon spent tens of billions of mandatory dollars from last year’s reconciliation law, intensely accelerating spending from its ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Colleges and universities in California will soon be able to apply to get designated as Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander-serving institutions under AB 2374, which Gov. Gavin Newsom...Read more

The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters, a $2.4 billion project that became a flashpoint between the Fed and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As senators looked for the exits this week, Republican leaders forced votes on two hot-topic campaign issues: data center electricity costs and lawmakers’ ability to buy and sell stocks.

Democrats tried ...Read more

BEIRUT — America opened its “forever war” in Iraq more than 23 years ago with “Shock and Awe.” It ended it Wednesday with little of either, even as the legacy of that conflict — which saw Iraq endure sectarian...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will open an innovative campus in Miami after a $3 billion donation from hedge fund CEO Kenneth Griffin, whose nationally historic gift will also aim to bolster CMU’s flagship ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — In the St. Paul mayor’s first extended public comments since the police chief filed a lawsuit against her, she said he had pushed back when she asked for information about police operations.

Kaohly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a sweeping speech to junior officers and enlisted troops, announcing new military commands and projects, including one to be led by Elon Musk, Anduril Industries Inc....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Some monetary relief may be on the horizon for Chris Brown, found liable earlier this year for a vicious dog attack in 2020 that left a housekeeper working at his Tarzana home hospitalized with injuries to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After years of lobbying from women’s rights advocates and child marriage survivors, California will ban child marriages starting next year.

Current law allowed exemptions for minors under 18 who ...Read more

The Trump administration tightened the U.S. embargo against Cuba on Wednesday, further restricting travel to the communist-run island and access to U.S. banking for its private sector.

The new regulations, issued by the ...Read more

Anthropic disclosed that its advanced artificial intelligence technology poses "existential risks to humanity" in an initial public offering document.

As the company prepares for the largest listing in history at $2 ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration’s controversial tariffs on imported goods will add $1 billion to the cost of modernizing the MTA’s bus and rail fleet, according to an estimate by the transit agency shared ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife will temporarily stop killing wolves that prey on livestock as the state’s population of the controversial canines dwindles.

The state wildlife agency, which announced the change ...Read more

NEW YORK — The administration of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to take legal action if Columbia University declines to reopen a campus walkway to the general public, according to a new court filing this week.

The ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Western High School students rolled out the royal treatment Wednesday as Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Baltimore to celebrate the expansion of his international youth award program to seven ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California has named David Madigan, a statistician and former Northeastern University provost, as its chief academic officer, and he vows to make the university a leader in ...Read more

A pilot of a jet carrying more than 170 passengers to Tel Aviv stabbed his colleague and tried to crash the plane in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded a serious security incident.

Catastrophe was ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a landmark bill that would give a financial boost to California’s struggling newsrooms.

Assembly Bill 2222 will create refundable tax credits for California ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors have charged 10 people with illegally voting or registering to vote in Minnesota elections, according to Department of Justice officials.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the ...Read more