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An Idaho state lawmaker says she did nothing wrong by publicizing in disparaging social media posts the name of a woman who had accused another legislator of rape.

Employers are increasingly losing patience with unvaccinated workers.

A year after racial justice and anti-police demonstrators took over part of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, there are lines outside restaurants and bars in and around the former protest zone.

The issue of homelessness appears straightforward on the surface, but it is actually a complex issue that affects families and children everywhere.

A retired Navy skipper who successfully petitioned for documents delving into the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history says he's satisfied there was no coverup.

The IOC says the Olympics are only about the sports, and that no politics are allowed.

Landlords and tenants are rushing back to court and advocates are bracing for a wave of evictions following the end of the federal moratorium over the weekend.

Firefighters in Oregon reported good progress in the battle against the nation’s largest wildfire, while authorities canceled evacuation orders near a major blaze in Northern California.

Colorado officials say mudslides caused “extreme damage” to a major interstate, leaving it clogged with boulders and rocks and no word on when it might reopen.

California Republicans see a chance of ousting embattled Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a September recall election.

Republicans are facing tough odds of ousting liberal Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election in heavily Democratic California.

A young TikTok star who had been on life support after being shot inside a Southern California movie theater has died.

A memorial grove to COVID-19 victims has been planted in Ohio, and governors and lawmakers elsewhere are pursuing similar permanent remembrances.

Tenants who are months behind on rent now face the end to a federal eviction moratorium Saturday.

A California law taking effect Jan. 1 could make pork harder to find and more expensive.

Parents and policy makers across the nation have been plunged anew into a debate over whether face coverings should be optional or a mandate when schools reopen.

By the end of the U.S. head count last year, the Census Bureau lacked data for residents in almost a fifth of the nation's occupied college dorms, nursing homes and prisons.

Alice Dearing is the first Black female swimmer to make Britain's Olympic team, but the ambassador for a bathing cap for natural hair won't be able to use the covering in competition.

Frustrated would-be travelers are overwhelming U.S. offices as easing COVID-19 travel restrictions have unleashed a pent-up demand for passports.

More than 100 people had to spend the night on a highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado.

Families are starting to spend the money from the expanded child tax credit.

In another big setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 6 in 10 Democrats say they’re optimistic about their party’s future.

President Joe Biden is calling on states to use some of their federal COVID relief dollars and offer a $100 vaccine incentive to those newly vaccinated.