RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Monday he is running for governor of California in 2026, ...

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The fight over the North Carolina Supreme Court race is just a preliminary test run, foreshadowing a far bigger “elephant” in ...

ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose or threaten new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. The moves fulfill certain campaign promises but also ...

Fugate has been a county emergency manager in Florida, head of the state of Florida's disaster office under a Republican governor and director of FEMA under President Barack Obama. Most states ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is gearing up to announce another Republican bid for U.S. Senate in Michigan, just months after he narrowly lost to Democrat Elissa Slotkin, ...

Trump and Kennedy have cast doubt on vaccine safety and the medical scientific establishment. As far back as the Republican primary debates in 2016, Trump falsely asserted that childhood vaccines ...

Perth Zoo’s former elephant Permai has arrived safely at her new South Australian home, with keepers saying they are relieved the trip went safely. After a 40-hour trek from South Perth to the ...

Costco appears to have a target on its back. The wholesale club's commitment to DEI is facing fresh scrutiny from 19 Republican attorneys general who say the retailer is "clinging" to "divisive ...

“How many people got their start in fast food restaurants when they were kids?” McCormick told CNN’s Pamela Brown. “Versus just giving a blanket rule that gives all kids lunches in high school, who ...

State Representative Heather Scott, a Republican who sponsored the memorial, provided flimsy reasoning behind the measure, saying that the power to define marriage belonged to the states.

he continued. When Brown pushed the Republican representative on whether he believes all the kids in his district who qualify for free meals are sitting at home and not working, he responded in ...