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COLUMBUS, Ohio —  Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. How and when their impacts are …

Artificial intelligence that can generate text, images and other content could help improve state programs but also poses risks, according to a report released by the governor’s office on Tuesday. …

A unicorn costume, a hammer and a belief that pedophiles are using public schools to destroy democracy: The trial of David DePape for attacking Paul Pelosi was strange and disturbing. …

PHILADELPHIA —  Members of a Pennsylvania school board that banned books, LGBTQ+ pride flags and transgender athletes slipped an item into theirfinal meeting before leaving office, hastily awarding a $700,000 exit …

Two years ago for Thanksgiving, I asked my L.A. Times colleagues who write about the environment: What gives them hope? Last year, I posed the same question to people working …

NEW YORK —  New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday. The three-page filing does not …

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WASHINGTON —  The U.S. has thwarted a plot to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said Wednesday. U.S. authorities have …

COLUMBIA, S.C. —  The historic South Carolina city of Charleston has elected its first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction Era. William Cogswell, formerly a Republican state lawmaker, defeated incumbent Democratic Mayor …

WASHINGTON —  After leaving an off-the-record happy hour last week, I found myself stuck in a traffic jam on Capitol Hill. Protests — and blocked roads — are common in Washington, …