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ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida officials are accusing two publishers of systematically overcharging some school districts for textbooks, including more than $279,000 billed to Osceola County schools.

The state is taking legal ...Read more

Republican legislators asked the California Supreme Court to intervene and hit the brakes on redistricting efforts underway in the statehouse.

Legislators are making fast work this week on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday any executive order from President Donald Trump banning mail ballots will have no impact on elections in the commonwealth.

The governor’s comments come a day ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ridership across Metro's transit system plunged in June after federal immigration authorities conducted dramatic raids across Los Angeles County, sowing fear among many rail and bus riders.

Last month, the...Read more

People will soon be able to buy Fanatics sportswear and Martha Stewart cookware, along with all kinds of electronics, on the Best Buy website.

The retailer announced Tuesday morning it has re-entered the third-party ...Read more

ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate committee Tuesday kicked off what could be a yearslong effort to eliminate the state’s income tax.

The committee heard testimony from advocates who say Georgia must eliminate its tax on ...Read more

NEW YORK — A new super PAC is funding phone bankers and canvassers to rally white working-class communities behind Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a broad array of independent groups involved in the mayor’...Read more

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco researchers offered a new warning gauge for recessions, adding to a suite of tools economists monitor to assess whether the U.S. is headed for a downturn.

The Labor Market Stress ...Read more

The Federal Trade Commission accused a shadowy group of flooding Ticketmaster with fake accounts to purchase and resell tickets to concerts by Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and other top artists.

The FTC alleged that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Alabama Rep. Jerry Carl is making a comeback bid to reclaim the 1st District seat he held before losing a member-vs.-member primary last year.

“Rooted in faith, family, and a deep commitment to ...Read more

BOSTON — A top Boston Police Department official disputed claims from two city councilors that BPD radio communications were offline for nearly 30 minutes at the height of overnight violence that broke out in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On July 10, a church signed the deeds transferring a half-acre of land hosting a community center in the heart of San Gabriel — less than a mile down the road from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — to...Read more

In “Honey Don’t!,” in theaters this weekend, Margaret Qualley makes her second star turn in the Ethan Coen/Tricia Cooke lesbian B-movie trilogy, following last year’s “Drive-Away Dolls,” and proves she makes a ...Read more

Possible contamination of shrimp by a radioisotope led the FDA to issue a do-not-eat-or-sell warning Tuesday for three lots of frozen shrimp sold under Walmart’s Great Value brand.

The primary concern isn’t that there...Read more

NEW YORK — A nearly 7-year-old New York City public school student grabbed by ICE with her mother at a recent immigration check-in was deported Tuesday with her mom to Ecuador amid the Trump administration’s crackdown....Read more

SAN JOSE, California — Meal kit maker HelloFresh has agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement in a consumer protection lawsuit for allegedly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions, according to ...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s electric vehicle battery joint venture launched production Tuesday at its first plant in Kentucky for cells that will go into F-150 Lightning pickup trucks and E-Transit commercial vans, while production ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A large swath of UCLA’s Jewish faculty — some of whom are fervently divided over Israel’s war in Gaza — united to sign a letter denouncing the Trump administration’s “misguided and punitive” ...Read more

Kevin Costner is filing to dismiss the sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by Ella Hunt’s stunt double, who claims she was forced to act in a “violent, unscheduled rape scene” during one of the “Horizon�...Read more

MIAMI — A month into his detention at Alligator Alcatraz, Daniel Ortiz Piñeda faced a stark choice: continue his legal fight for asylum or give it up to hopefully put an end to his extended stay at the makeshift ...Read more