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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - As California faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, lawmakers must make tough decisions about which of the more than 1,000 measures still alive in the Legislature this ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday discussed whether classified documents might play a role in the planned trial of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, who is facing federal br...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A measure to repeal a now-defunct law passed last year that would use public money to fund private school tuition has been pulled from Nebraska's November ballot, the secretary of s...

ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state Supreme Court who claimed a state agency was unconstitutionally trying to blo...

OTTAWA - Canada is providing $40 million to help Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid concern over what it calls a catastrophic humanitarian situation, worsened by an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican lawmakers in 2021 that were struck down by a state judge as unconstitutional. Justi...

Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have repeatedly thrown this Congress into chaos showed up Thursday at Donald Trump's hush money trial to do what they do best. They...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre's pledges to axe carbon pricing come at a time of wildfires and other disasters and Poilievre would rather "watch the country burn...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's budget office allegedly extorted private contractors into paying him thousands of dollars in bribes as he oversaw large bl...

MLA Nadine Wilson is stepping down as the leader of the Sask United Party. On Thursday, the Sask United Party - which Wilson founded in 2022 after she was forced to resign from the government caucus f...