The National Hurricane Center said late Wednesday that the hurricane was on track to strike the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the ...

The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009.

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As checks from President Trump for health costs hit millions of mailboxes, a poll shows Americans don't trust Republicans on ...

Vote-by-mail ballots for the November election are arriving in California mailboxes. Election officials have one main request ...

Californians will vote on Proposition 1 in November. That measure would let the state borrow just over $11 billion through a state bond to fund affordable housing programs.

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Large swaths of the Bay Area are under a heat advisory. Oakland leaders have been taking steps to try and cool classrooms ...

The Lahore High Court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture and its main square is a ...

The Trump administration has been hostile to federal spending on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. But there's ...

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and ...