Technical issues plagued polling sites throughout California as people turned out in droves, taxing a system meant to make voting easier with new technology, same-day registration and centralized vote centers...
March 4, 2020
The Latest on Tuesday's primary election in Texas (all times local): 2 a.m. Election results from San Antonio — Texas' second-largest city — are delayed by hours due to problems...
March 4, 2020
Greek authorities were firing tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday morning to repulse a push by migrants to cross its land border from Turkey, as pressure continued along its frontier...
March 4, 2020
The fast-spreading coronavirus is forcing travelers to reconsider their trips. As of Tuesday, the virus has sickened more than 92,000 people and 3,100 have died. The U.S. Centers for Disease...
March 4, 2020
Amazon and other big companies are trying to keep their employees healthy by banning business trips, but they've dealt a gut punch to a travel industry already reeling from the...
March 4, 2020
California is already a world leader in the embryonic electric vehicle industry but needs more government help to flourish, according to a new report from the Los Angeles Economic Development...
March 4, 2020
It may be that Democratic operatives and their party machinery are more adept at fighting off threats from the left than they are at finding a coherent strategy to beat...
March 4, 2020
Maine officials are taking the final comments on a proposal to build a large, land-based salmon farm in Belfast. Nordic Aquafarms of Norway wants to build the facility, which would...
March 4, 2020
The Supreme Court is taking up the first major abortion case of the Trump era, an election-year look at a Louisiana dispute that could reveal how willing the more conservative...
March 4, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg will reassess on Wednesday whether he should stay in the race after getting disappointing results in Super Tuesday primaries despite spending more than a half...
March 4, 2020
Less than 30 minutes into a lecture on bioinformatics, Chu Xinjian's class was abruptly cut short. It was the first day of an unusual semester. Across China, schools are shut...
March 4, 2020
Having food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he's rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at a Chicago...
March 4, 2020
Jerome Powell is confronting his stiffest test yet as head of the Federal Reserve in an atmosphere vastly altered from what his predecessors faced. It makes an uncertain situation even...
March 4, 2020
Bernie Sanders took Super Tuesday's biggest prize on Tuesday, winning California on a night he was seeking to blunt the momentum of suddenly surging Joe Biden in the race for...
March 4, 2020
The chief administrative law judge for the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission and wife of the state Republican Party chairman was elected Tuesday to the Supreme Court after a race that...
March 4, 2020
The latest on the Democratic presidential primary and Super Tuesday (all times local): 11:40 p.m. As soon as polls closed in California at 8 p.m. Pacific Time, The Associated Press...
March 4, 2020
Japan's government on Wednesday opened part of the last town that had been off-limits due to radiation since the Fukushima nuclear disaster nine years ago, in a symbolic move to...
March 4, 2020
Indian PM Narendra Modi may not actually quit social media anytime soon but the mere thought of an Indian exodus from these platforms, Russia-style substitution or China-like security rules is...
March 4, 2020
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden easily won their party's presidential primaries in Alabama in Super Tuesday voting. Trump, who is very popular among Republicans in the...
March 4, 2020
With early voting already underway, election officials in a Georgia county have voted to switch from the state's new voting machines to hand-marked paper ballots amid concerns about ballot secrecy....
March 4, 2020
Voters in California's Democratic primary ranked health care and climate change as the most important issues facing the country, well above the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other...
March 4, 2020
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina won his party's primary Tuesday and will face Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest in the November general election, seeking a second term. It's...
March 4, 2020
New Mexico will reinstate a tax credit for households and businesses that adopt solar energy systems and take new steps to modernize the electric grid and export more renewable energy...
March 4, 2020
Miami-Dade's tourism bureau warns of a marketing catastrophe if a state bill from a local lawmaker passes that would end the nonprofit's claim to about $25 million a year in...
March 4, 2020
Bernie Sanders hopes Super Tuesday in Oklahoma will be a repeat of his performance four years ago, while the rest of the Democratic field hope to get a foothold in...
March 4, 2020
Mississippi legislators on Tuesday faced their first major deadline of the 2020 session. It was the final day for House and Senate committees to consider general bills filed in their...
March 3, 2020
Voters in Colorado's Democratic primary ranked health care and climate change as the most important issues facing the country, well above the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other...
March 3, 2020
Voters in Minnesota's Democratic primary ranked health care as the most important issues facing the country, well above the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other social issues. About...
March 3, 2020
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich missed Tuesday night's game against the Charlotte Hornets because he is away to attend to personal business. The team announced former Spurs star and assistant coach...
March 3, 2020
Voters in Texas' Democratic primary ranked health care as the most important issue facing the country, well above climate change, the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other social...
March 3, 2020
Arbitrator Mark Irvings accepted Theo Epstein's rationale for delaying Kris Bryant's debut at the start of the 2015 season, concluding there was no proof of "a nefarious motive" by the...
March 3, 2020
Voters in Massachusetts' Democratic primary ranked health care and climate change as the most important issues facing the country, well above the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other...
March 3, 2020
Imagine an NCAA Tournament with no fans in the arenas. What normally would be thought an impossibility isn't so far-fetched as the United States and the rest of the world...
March 3, 2020
Tensions over how to contain the coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government's ability to ramp...
March 3, 2020
Voters in Virginia's Democratic primary ranked health care as the most important issue facing the country, well above climate change, the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other social...
March 3, 2020
Voters in North Carolina's Democratic primary ranked health care as the most important issue facing the country, well above climate change, the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other...
March 3, 2020
Aloha to cheaper airfare. Those looking to travel to Hawaii on a budget can now snag round-trip tickets for under $200 — but will have to act fast. Alaska Airlines,...
March 3, 2020
Concerns over coronavirus crept into New Hampshire's long-running debate over paid family and medical leave Tuesday when Senate lawmakers heard testimony on two competing bills. First up was the Democrats'...
March 3, 2020
The State Highway Administration would be authorized to post suicide prevention information on existing electronic highway signs under new legislation proposed in the Maryland Senate. Senate bill 810, which is...
March 3, 2020
Atlanta's major sports franchises are applying their muscle to a state Senate bill that would legalize sports betting underneath the umbrella of the state lottery, even as opponents say legalized...
