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Police arrested dozens of people in Seattle, Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon overnight during protests demanding a tally of all votes in the US election, and smaller groups backing President Donald T...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to w...

ESPN announced Thursday it is laying off about 300 employees and cutting about 500 jobs from its global workforce. The cuts amount to about 10% of the employees at the sports network and are due large...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A judge on Thursday rejected defense requests to move the trial of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death, and also ordered that all four will be tr...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big changes despite the heated race at the top o...

U.S. Postal Service inspectors found just 13 ballots - all in Pennsylvania - during an Election Day sweep of mail processing centers ordered by a federal judge.The ballots were found in two separate m...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - App-based companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash have dodged a potentially devastating blow to their industry by carving out an exemption for themselves from a California law th...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - In a first in the nation, Oregon has rejected charging drug users with criminal offenses, with voters passing a ballot measure that decriminalizes possession of heroin, methamphetam...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California voters have rejected an attempt to reinstate affirmative action programs in public hiring, contracting and college admissions, keeping a 1996 ban on the government gran...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground ...