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Oakland County, Mich., a Republican stronghold 12 years ago that is now solidly Democratic, is a prime example of the...

Friday: Fires caused tens of thousands of Orange County residents to flee their homes this week. No ballots were damaged...

Joe Biden has cut into President Trump’s edge among suburbanites and older voters, but his support from Latino voters...

Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, was charged with videotaping a woman who was partially...

A Colorado man who played the lottery earlier this spring -- and won -- managed to lose all of his potential winnings after...

Spirits may be low around the country, but don’t expect them to be raised in the White House after the election; neither...

In Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds, both parties are succeeding in coaxing infrequent voters off the sidelines. The...

A judge this week decided against reducing bond for an unlicensed security guard charged in the fatal shooting of a...

The district attorney in Dallas County, Texas, is requesting the public's help in acquiring information about protesters...

The coronavirus pandemic and new requirements in Republican-led states created voting obstacles for college students this...

Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire. Jam Master Jay of the...

He was a Twitter pioneer in writing at length, 140 characters at a time, about losing his job at The New Yorker. He wrote...

An Idaho judge ruled Thursday that "doomsday couple" Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell will have to stand trial together...

A crane in Manhattan's "Billionaire's Row" spun out of control and sent debris flying to the ground Thursday evening after...

The Church of the Resurrection School sued the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services this week over its mandate...

The administration has raced to build the president’s promised border wall and block migrants from entering the United...

The presidential rivals both appeared in Tampa, confronting their vulnerabilities and courting a range of voters, a clear...

The family of a Black man killed by Philadelphia police officers this week, which sparked several nights of violent unrest,...

Supervisors denied civil-rights prosecutors’ request to use a grand jury for their investigation into the 2014 shooting of...

Gang disputes and the killing of homeless people are at the center of the surge in murders in Los Angeles this year, amid a...

About 200 migrants were aboard a boat that caught fire and capsized on Saturday, hours after it had left Senegal for the...

Recently surfaced video appears to show Philadelphia police officers smashing the windows of an SUV and pulling out the...

With her husband, she founded Prairie Seeds Academy in Minneapolis, a charter school centered on Hmong language, culture...

The Dallas Police Department is looking for Marisela Botello, a 23-year-old woman who was last seen on Oct. 5th during a...

Two members of the Base, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi group, were accused of trying to threaten a host of a podcast...

A presidential order would almost certainly face a legal challenge. But if elected, Joseph R. Biden Jr. would have other...

While the chief justice’s views have not been fully endorsed by any of his colleagues, they have so far prevailed in five...

A state trooper assigned to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s security detail got hot and heavy with one of New York’s first daughters —...

The Postal Service’s performance has not been as bad as initially feared, but handling of mail ballots has been...

The New York Police Department, the largest police force in the country, has appointed a Black woman to be its chief of...

Living for 27 years with Lou Gehrig’s disease (and beating the odds), he started Ride for Life, an annual trek that has...

Short clips from surveillance footage and police body and dashboard cameras provide some answers -- but yield even more...

Sales of Halloween outfits and decorations have been surprisingly strong this year, with some seeing the holiday as a last...

The shooting and its aftermath were guaranteed to ratchet up tensions in a country already on edge. Debates about how to...

Over the summer, diners flocked to hastily assembled outdoor patios. The airy option was great for people still wary of...

Spotify is reaping the financial rewards of betting on podcasts. But the audio streaming platform is also paying the price...