ATLANTA (AP) — Anderson Clayton wanted a headline name to speak at North Carolina Democrats’ summer gala — but the state party chair bypassed familiar Capitol Hill figures, looking instead to Illinois ...

The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President ...

A zoo in Denmark is asking for donations of small pets as food for its predators. The Aalborg zoo said it is trying to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed ...

It’s ridiculous that he would consider shortening a sentence for somebody who aided and abetted sexual trafficking as she did ...

The redistricting battle is opening the possibility to a larger redistricting arms race as blue and red states alike leave ...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to ...

Hong Kong authorities on Monday strengthened a crackdown on 16 overseas-based activists who were previously targeted by bounties on suspicion of endangering national security, ...

Two years after 15-year-old Erick Portillo was shot to death outside his Hayward home, the case remains unsolved, and his mother is calling for Alameda County’s new district attorney to take ...

India and the Philippines staged joint sail and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea for the first time, a high-profile military deployment that will likely ...

Former SAG-AFTRA executive director David White was elected interim executive director of the NFL Players Association on Sunday night. White replaces Lloyd Howell, who stepped down last month amid ...

When Susana Pacheco accepted a housekeeping job at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip 16 years ago, she believed it was a step toward stability for her and her 2-year-old daughter.

In the embrace of a cheerfully chittering spider monkey named Louie, an Army veteran who grappled for decades with ...