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NEW YORK —  For about 50 years, adding cavity-preventing fluoride to drinking water was a popular public health measure in Yorktown, a leafy town north of New York City. But in …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —  Republican senators pushed back on Sunday against criticism from Democrats that Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead U.S. intelligence services, is “compromised” by her comments supportive …

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WASHINGTON —  President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his Agriculture secretary, the last of his picks to lead executive agencies and …

A social-media tribute to Coptic Christians. A billboard in Amish country. A visit to a revered Jewish gravesite. While Donald Trump had a lock on the white evangelical vote, he …

WASHINGTON —  After several weeks working mostly behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill last week in a new, more visible role: helping Donald Trump try to …

Laura Richardson emerged the victor of the competitive, costly and feisty election to win a South Los Angeles seat in the state Senate — completing her political comeback more than …

On the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2017, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente called the Monterey Police Department to report that a patient had come in for a sexual assault exam. …

WASHINGTON —  President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he’ll nominate billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next Treasury secretary. Trump also said …

NEW YORK —  A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump will not be sentenced this month in his hush money case in which he was convicted of 34 felony counts. …