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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Matthew Dowd, a former political advisor to Republican President George W. Bush, announced Wednesday that he will run as a Democrat for Texas lieutenant governor.The onetime chief...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Applying to be one of the first workers at Walt Disney World, high school graduate George Kalogridis made a split-second decision that set the course for his life: he picked a roo...

NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon's new robot can hear, see and follow you around the home, but it’s no Rosey the Robot.Amazon's version, called Astro, doesn't cook or clean like the animated character fro...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are set to meet Tuesday evening for the second and final debate in Virginia's closely watched gubernatorial election.Five we...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sounded an urgent call Tuesday for Congress to raise the government's borrowing limit, a day after Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a bill ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two key Democratic senators are expected to meet Tuesday with President Joe Biden at the White House as the party works to narrow his $3.5 trillion legislative package and momentum b...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. military officer told Congress on Tuesday that he knew former President Donald Trump wasn't planning to attack China and that it was his job to reassure the Chinese of t...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole.Anne Arundel County Judge Mich...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In his first congressional testimony on the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday defended the military's execution of a frantic airl...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Facing up to Texas' booming suburbs turning bluer, Republicans on Monday proposed new U.S. House maps that would fortify their slipping grip and shrink the number of seats where t...