SAN FRANCISCO — California has banned farmers from using certain pesticides near schools and day care centres under a new rule announced Tuesday that regulators said...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown announced plans Tuesday to further California’s co-operation with the European Union and China on fighting climate change. California and the...
RICHMOND, Va. — A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat...
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democrat Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH’-zee-oh) has cruised to a second term as mayor of New York City. De Blasio easily defeated Republican...
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Donald Trump cast an absentee ballot in Tuesday’s municipal elections in his hometown of New York City. Principal deputy...
DETROIT — Incumbent Karen Weaver survived a recall effort to remain Flint’s mayor as the Michigan city slowly recovers from a lead-contaminated water crisis. Weaver won...
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — President Donald Trump delivered a sharp warning to North Korea Wednesday, telling the rogue nation: “Do not underestimate us. And do...
HARTFORD, Conn. — One night in 1969, Kent Williams was commanding a Coast Guard patrol boat off the coast of Vietnam when a Mayday call came...
PHILADELPHIA — A longtime civil rights attorney who has sued the police department scores of times, opposes the death penalty and promised to help hold bad...
RICHMOND, Va. — Democrats nearly wiped out Republicans’ overwhelming majority on Election Day in the Virginia House of Delegates, with a handful of races that will...