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President Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon of his son Hunter on Sunday night, using the power of his office to wave aside years of legal troubles, including a federal conviction for illegally buying a gun.

The Supreme Court is scheduled Monday to consider the regulation of flavored e-cigarettes in a case that illustrates an enduring public health conundrum: how to keep kids away from sweet-flavored, addictive vapes while giving adult smokers better options to help them quit cigarettes.

“When you look at the movie, everybody thinks Hinkley (California) got rewarded and saved. But in reality, that was the start of the fall,” said John Turner, 62, who grew up in Hinkley and is one of the few natives who remains.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday tapped Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration, replacing Anne Milgram.

Kash Patel, a staunch defender of Donald Trump, is the president-elect’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he said Saturday night.

Threats by president-elect Donald Trump to impose sweeping new tariffs on the United States' top trading partners is revving up an old trade war that has battled between Washington, Oregon and Idaho foresters and Canada for more than 40 years.

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he planned to replace FBI Director Christopher A. Wray with Kash Patel, a move that would install a staunch loyalist atop an agency Trump has repeatedly criticized.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat Monday to impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico – one of a barrage of shots fired daily from Mar-a-Lago since his election victory – landed like a bombshell in Ottawa.

John Levin had no idea what he’d stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal country. Those cylinders – the oldest commercial medium of recorded music – sat in his house for years until Levin put one of the unlabeled, decaying brown tubes onto his custom player and heard an old country song. Like 133 years old.

In Texas, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer paid homage to Beyoncé, a Houston native, and told a room full of Democratic activists about the party’s successes in her state.

After training to become a wildland firefighter for a fire crew in the Northeast, Richard Schenk saw his first big blaze in 1988 on the other side of the country, in Yellowstone National Park. In the decades since, fires have regularly taken him across the West, and through forests of Canada, too.

Gov. Kristi L. Noem was about to seize the spotlight, and she wanted to make the most of it.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – On the court, they seem like any other college women’s volleyball team. At a recent game, the players moved around the court in staccato rhythm, setting and spiking the ball, springing into the air like pogo sticks to block attacking shots, all in their blue and gold uniforms of the San Jose State University Spartans.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said bomb threats and swatting incidents were made against Democratic lawmakers, their families and law enforcement personnel, shortly after the FBI said several similar threats were aimed at people President-elect Donald Trump has chosen for his incoming administration.

Backing the blue and promising to be tough on criminals turned out to be a winning message for one Florida judicial candidate, but it also got him suspended by the Florida Supreme Court this week. John B. Flynn was elected to the Polk County bench in 2022 after promising to “support our law enforcement agencies” and vowing that “criminals won’t be happy to see me on the bench. I am tough. If ...

Kamala Harris for president again? How about Gavin Newsom? Sure, it’s early, but at the moment two Californians, Vice President Harris and Gov. Newsom, lead the list of possible 2028 Democratic contenders in a new Emerson College poll. Harris, who just lost this year’s presidential election to Donald Trump, was the choice of 37% of registered voters. Newsom was second at 7%. The poll was ...

During the campaign, Donald Trump swore he had “nothing to do with” a right-wing policy blueprint known as Project 2025 that would overhaul the federal government, even though many of those involved in developing the plans were his allies.