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Milton was expected to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday. The Tampa Bay region could face a direct hit, but the exact path of the storm remains unclear.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff and former Dodger Steve Garvey squared off in the only head-to-head debate of California's U.S. Senate race on Tuesday evening.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveils her strategy to fight organized crime in a nation facing cartel wars, assassinations and massacres.

When the effort to boost one's polling numbers involves suppressing life-saving information, it's clear that American politics have hit a cynical apex.

Many Iranians, especially educated ones, were reconciled to constraints on nuclear weapons development. Now, fear of an Israeli strike may be changing that.

During arguments Tuesday, the justices suggested they will uphold regulation that prohibits the sale of the kits as a reasonable interpretation of the 1968 law that restricts the sale of firearms.

Former President Trump is holding a rally Saturday at a polo field in the Coachella Valley, even though he will likely lose California by millions of votes.

John Hopfield dreamed up the modern neural network while at Caltech. Geoffrey Hinton built on it, creating an AI firm that Google bought for $44 million.

Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 hurricane, threatens disastrous winds and storm surge to the Tampa Bay area and the west coast of Florida, officials said Monday.

Everett Titterington, who died at Pearl Harbor, was interred at Riverside National Cemetery after his remains were identified.

The stiff sentence given disgraced Colorado elections official Tina Peters should serve as a deterrent to others promoting Donald Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election being stolen. The judge was having none of her nonsense.

Ifigenia Martínez, feminist icon of the Mexican left, died at 99 — just days after presiding over the inauguration of Mexico's first woman president.

'Call Her Daddy' host Alex Cooper says she interviewed Kamala Harris because 'one of the main conversations in this election is women' and she wanted in on that.

The Supreme Court refuses to shield Uber and Lyft from California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of drivers.

The takeaway is obvious: Each additional day of suffering is driving a wider wedge between Israelis and Palestinians. Enough is enough.

More than 140 people have been killed in the last month in Culiacán as two factions of the Sinaloa compete to fill a power vacuum.

The unending, unjust Israel-Hamas war exposes rifts in the universality of human rights and the hypocrisy of Western nations.

Rep. Adam Schiff's role as a chief critic of former President Trump has defined his bid to become the next U.S. senator from California.

As JD Vance leans on his Appalachian roots in his campaign for the White House, a distant cousin criticizes his portrayal of the region and their shared last name.

Harris would continue the internationalist policies of Biden and Obama. Trump would reprise his previous role as disrupter-in-chief.

The war that began in Gaza was never about Gaza alone. Defeating Hamas is the first stage of a regional conflict between Israel and the Iranian-led axis of radical Islamism.

Republicans say journalists shouldn't be pointing out their lies. But in the era of post-factual MAGA politics, most voters are grateful for the service.

A year after the Oct. 7 attack that spurred the Gaza war, Israelis and Palestinians reflect. In their voices, they chronicle a devastating day, tragic year.

Former President Trump's denial of the 2020 election results swung back into focus in the 2024 presidential race after it was raised as an issue by Gov. Tim Walz at the vice presidential debate and by Special Counsel Jack Smith in a new federal court filing.