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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An effort in the Florida Legislature sounds simple and straightforward: ensure that only U.S. citizens vote in state elections.

Republicans who control the state Senate and House of ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of schools, child cares, parks and other care facilities around San Diego County are located near idle oil wells, which can emit toxic gases, a new study finds.

They’re among the nearly 4,500 ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore officials say they’ve boosted the number of 911 calls diverted to mental health professionals, but acknowledge that long wait times and continued police involvement show the city’s crisis ...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the idea of immigration cuts or tighter border checks, even as electoral polls show a surge in support for the country’s hard-right One Nation Party.

“We have tight...Read more

DETROIT — Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the Ambassador Bridge, gave $1 million to a political action committee that supports Republican President Donald Trump less than a month before Trump threatened to block the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marylanders have for months faced high grocery prices and rising energy bills. Polls show affordability is a major issue. But lawmakers in Annapolis have focused on a more divisive topic: immigration.

While...Read more

MIAMI — From the moment Philippe Bien-Aime stepped foot in the United States on July 25, 1995, immigration authorities, say the Haitian native has been living a lie.

The former mayor of North Miami arrived in the U.S. ...Read more

Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” after she said that Democrats would take action against corporations that “take a knee” to the president.

Rice, who was ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Montgomery County health officials on Saturday warned residents of a possible measles exposure at two locations in the county, after confirming another case of the highly contagious disease.

A person ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At a luncheon this week for L.A. County politicos, Supervisor Kathryn Barger pitched what she framed as a commonsense reform.

Legislators in Sacramento, she argued, need to change a 2019 law that extended ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts AG’s office is representing House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka as they look to dismiss Diana DiZoglio’s lawsuit against them, a move that the state auditor ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With costs mounting for alleged sexual misconduct cases, the Los Angeles school board has approved $250 million in bonds — on top of $500 million already authorized less than a year ago — to fund ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Outside a hall where Southern California Edison was celebrating Black History Month on Friday, a group of Altadena residents stood on the sidewalk, waving signs and talking of the homes and family members ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four people were killed Saturday in a fiery car crash near Long Beach Airport, and police are investigating whether speed played a role.

The National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Lottery is planning to introduce online ticket sales by 2027 as a way to increase revenue for outdoors projects, but critics warn it could be a slippery slope toward legalized internet gambling — ...Read more

The Haitian judge who signed an arrest warrant for President Jovenel Moïse that figured prominently in the late leader’s July 7, 2021, assassination testified Friday that the document was illegal and that he had no ...Read more

A march in Lyon organized by far-right groups to honor a man beaten to death in a fight went off without violence Saturday after authorities put a massive police presence on the streets.

About 3,200 people turned out for...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The four remaining bodies of the nine skiers killed in Tuesday’s avalanche were retrieved Saturday morning, after five others were recovered Friday.

Authorities confirmed the identities of all the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in Minneapolis’ Whittier Park on Saturday, Feb. 21, to mark the month that has passed since Alex Pretti was shot by immigration agents.

On a sunny day with temperatures in the teens, ...Read more

Conan O’Brien, whose holiday party was reportedly the site of several confrontations involving Nick Reiner in the hours before police say he murdered his parents, has broken his silence more than two months after the ...Read more