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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a bid to stabilize struggling crude-oil refineries, state lawmakers on Saturday passed a last-minute bill that would allow the construction of 2,000 new oil wells annually in the San Joaquin ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State lawmakers on Friday advanced a plan that would allow California colleges to offer preferential admission to students who are descended from enslaved people, part of an ongoing effort by ...Read more

CHICAGO — She got to the base’s main gate at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, dressed in her Army boots and a red and black dress adorned with embroidered flowers, one of two identical dresses she and her daughter received from ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Maritza Arias-Galva was on her way home from the grocery store in Atlantic County on Thursday, eager to celebrate her own belated birthday party with her children on her day off work. She’d bought a ...Read more

BOSTON — Kelly Dever, a controversial witness in the Karen Read murder retrial who testified to having a “false memory,” has resigned from the Boston Police Department.

Dever’s resignation became effective on Sept...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lawyers and advocates fear about 1,000 Central American children, including dozens in California, are at risk of being deported to dangerous situations in their home countries before finishing their ...Read more

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is condemning the latest gang attack in Haiti, a brutal massacre in a fishing village north of Port-au-Prince that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 people, including ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota’s outdoor firearms range in Rosemount has ended its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and will stop making arrangements with all outside agencies to use it...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued to give a tropical wave in the Atlantic a medium chance it would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota and its service workers have reached a deal, ending the strike that had threatened next weekend’s Farm Aid concert.

The strike involving 1,400 custodial, maintenance, food ...Read more

Baz Luhrmann discovered many more intimate details about the King of Rock while working on his new film, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.

The filmmaker, 62, carried out a huge deep dive into the late singer for his 2022 ...Read more

Charlie Sheen made awful homemade movies with the Penn brothers.

The Platoon actor, 60, grew close to actors Sean Penn and his sibling Chris Penn as they lived near each other in Malibu, and has now opened up about how ...Read more

Catherine, Princess of Wales and Melania Trump will carry out their first joint engagement next week during the US state visit to the UK.

The 43-year-old royal will welcome US president Donald Trump, 79, and first lady ...Read more

Emma Heming Willis says her children's lives have been turned "upside down" by the impact of Bruce Willis' dementia fight.

The model and influencer, 47, has been acting as a carer for her ailing Die Hard actor husband, 70...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of a man believed to have fired a gun at officers during a chaotic immigration sweep at a Camarillo...Read more

NEW YORK — False alarm!

A New York judge has declined Justin Baldoni’s attempt to depose Taylor Swift late next month amid his enduring legal saga with her former best friend, Blake Lively.

On Friday, Judge Lewis J. ...Read more

On the edge of the town of Düren in Germany’s industrial heartland, roughly 200 people whistled and shouted at the occupants of Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Tesla cars as they streamed past toward the castle of Schloss ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California has secured a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from barring immigrants living in the country illegally from accessing dozens of federally funded programs, including ...Read more

The Mexican government requested a “rigorous investigation” into the death of man in a Chicago suburb who was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Friday after allegedly trying to flee arrest. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking Congress for an extra $58 million to bolster security for the executive and judicial branches following the fatal shooting of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, according to...Read more