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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday released an updated budget plan that shows California has erased its projected deficit for the next two years, thanks to billions of dollars in additional tax revenue tied to Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom.

WASHINGTON — Louisiana is a step closer to a new congressional map after the state Senate approved a plan Thursday that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, both held by Democrats. The new map comes after the Supreme Court invalidated Louisiana’s current House map last month in a ruling that found the state had illegally used race to draw a second majority-Black ...

President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration had selected Washington’s West Potomac Park as the site of his planned “National Garden of American Heroes,” raising questions about whether Congress would need to approve the project.

LOS ANGELES — After months of pressing Western states to come to their own agreement, the Trump administration told their leaders it’s drawing up a 10-year plan for dealing with water shortages on the Colorado River. The river is a major water source for Southern California and much of the Southwest, but its largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are severely depleted and their levels ...

AKRON, Ohio — Two people are dead after a small plane crashed into a residence in Ohio and caused a fire, authorities said on Thursday, May 14.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is opening up for the first time about the recent health crisis that sent him to a Florida hospital, including a “very significant spiritual experience” he said he had while he was in a coma.

Normally a scenic walk from the World War II Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial, the half-mile route no longer offers the same uninterrupted views Washington DC tourists have come to expect.

It's been nearly a year since the Trump administration began issuing orders to keep five aging coal plants in four states open past their scheduled closures, citing an "energy emergency" that it said threatened the reliability of the U.S. electricity supply.

The Justice Department is holding internal discussions about settling President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in coming days, according to three people familiar with the deliberations, a move that could involve the government directly providing taxpayer funds or another public benefit to the president.Whether to settle the suit and on what terms remains up in the air. One of the settlement options the Justice Department and White House officials are reviewing is the possibility of the IRS dropping any audits of Trump, his family members or businesses, according to two of the people.

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will meet Pope Leo XIV during a visit to the Vatican at the end of this month, his office announced Wednesday. The trip will take place from May 26 to 30 and include stops in Rome and Vatican City, according to a statement from the mayor’s press office that highlighted Johnson and Leo’s shared ties to the nation’s third-largest city. The mayor’s meeting ...

The state of Florida illegally attempted to curry special favor from the president by gifting downtown Miami land for Donald Trump’s planned presidential center and skyscraper, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday. The complaint accuses Trump, his nonprofit presidential library foundation, Miami Dade College and its trustees, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the other ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Wednesday cast the deciding vote against the latest effort to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to attack Iran — the seventh such time he’s broken with his party since the war began but the first time that Republican deflections made his vote decisive. The war powers resolution failed 49 to 50 as the Pennsylvanian was the only Democrat to vote with ...

Generations of Chinese immigrants have settled in Arcadia, transforming the San Gabriel Valley suburb, a typical bedroom community, into a “Chinese Beverly Hills” with high-end real estate and luxury shopping. But the city’s residents, many of them affluent, learned this week that a prominent local elected official had a relationship with the Chinese government that federal prosecutors said crossed the line into illegal conduct.