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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Legislature sent a sweeping rewrite of the state's election laws to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, dealing a bruising defeat for Democrats after a monthslong, b...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden says he chose to end the war in Afghanistan in order to focus the nation's defenses on other security problems, including China and Russia. Addressing the nation Tuesd...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is promising up to $60 million in military aid to Ukraine in advance of a White House meeting on Wednesday between President Joe Biden and his counterpart in Kyiv, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California election officials are spending $16 million in a four-week ad blitz to educate people about voting in the recall that could remove Gov. Gavin Newsom, a campaign th...

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) - Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when their vehicles plunged into a deep hole where a highway collapsed after Hurricane Ida blew through Mississippi.To...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin rolled out the most sweeping policy proposal of his campaign so far Monday, a so-called "day one game plan" that envisioned subst...

UPDATE: President Biden has released the following statement: I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan a...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while o...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon says it remains prepared to airlift more Americans from the Kabul airport, even as the evacuation winds down. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Monday "there...

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union recommended Monday that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infections there. The decision by the European ...