Progressive city council member Nithya Raman has advanced to a November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, setting up an unexpected matchup between two Democrats and former political allies to run the struggling city of nearly 4 million

A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into more than a dozen House and Senate contests across the country

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry

A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to put prisoners to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of the Chinese government

President Donald Trump, a longtime New York Knicks fan, has confirmed that he would attend the first NBA Finals game in New York since 1999

Senators are warning that a key U.S. surveillance authority could expire this week after bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence community derailed an extension effort

A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas

A teenager charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a competitor at a Texas track meet won't be testifying in his own defense