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WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson said transgender women should not use women’s bathrooms in the House, adding fuel to a push led by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.

“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office...Read more

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released a breakdown Wednesday of five potential paths forward for the fragile state-to-state negotiations surrounding Colorado River operating guidelines that must be updated by 2026.

The ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign poured significant resources into a vaunted operation to turn out voters in Philadelphia. The effort was supported by an army of door-knocking volunteers, and ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman whose lies about killing her two sons sharply divided a small town, was denied parole Wednesday morning.

Smith’s denial was decided unanimously by five members of...Read more

A group of protesters, some of whom spent decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted, called Wednesday for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to review cases involving a former Detroit police homicide detective and...Read more

BOSTON — State Auditor Diana DiZoglio asked Attorney General Andrea Campbell to greenlight a lawsuit against the state Legislature to force the House and Senate to comply with a reignited effort to open up their finances...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected another attempt by Philadelphia officials to overturn a long-standing state provision that prevents the city from enacting its own gun laws.

In a 6-0 ...Read more

Every year the president pardons two Thanksgiving turkeys and then tells Americans how much their dinner may cost.

This year, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the average Thanksgiving meal should cost ...Read more

Massachusetts could add its newest sanctuary city as early as tonight, with a MetroWest town considering a “Welcoming Communities” policy that would sharply limit its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis told his colleagues Wednesday morning that he didn’t think he could get through his prepared testimony on Hurricane Helene “without shedding a tear.”

Instead he submitted his ...Read more

Surgeon and author Marty Makary is seen as the leading candidate to run the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under President-elect Donald Trump, people familiar with the matter said.

Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns...Read more

NEW YORK — Angel Lata Landi, the immigrant construction worker killed in an unprovoked attack cops say was carried out by a homeless man on a stabbing spree across Manhattan, planned to marry in two weeks, the Daily News...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” at the center of the U.S. Navy’s worst-ever bribery and corruption scandal, will appeal the 15-year prison sentence that a San ...Read more

The first major atmospheric river storm to hit the West Coast this season is kicking off the rainy season with a bang, as the system rapidly strengthened — to the tune of a bomb cyclone — before pummeling Northern ...Read more

NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors charged Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest people, with participating in a scheme that involved promising to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to ...Read more

SEATTLE — Hours after a massive windstorm howled with gusts up to 74 mph in the lowlands, crews in Western Washington were working Wednesday to restore electricity for over 640,000 customers who lost power overnight.

At...Read more

BOSTON — Imagine your doctor prescribing you a shot of vodka or whiskey to bring you some relief.

Well, a new study out of Boston shows the promise of an alcohol-mimicking drug for patients with the debilitating ...Read more

ATHENS, Ga. — As she was trying to fight off her attacker, Laken Riley marked him with scratches and secured his DNA under her fingernails. Wednesday, that evidence helped convict Jose Ibarra of murder.

“The evidence ...Read more

ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Orion Township officials said it will take a week to finish their investigation into what caused a massive explosion at a northern Oakland County condominium community on Tuesday that injured two ...Read more