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President Trump took credit for a Republican’s advance to the runoff for governor in California, telling supporters that he called a federal prosecutor in the state shortly after the June …

Wednesday morning in Washington began with a typical mix of visitors along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool: joggers, bikers, school groups, foreign tourists, a dancing majorette troupe from Carbondale, Pa. …

Just watching footage of the World Cup match from 32 years ago can make a person sweat. The coaches squinted in the midday sun. The spectators, many of them wearing …

Adrian Boafo, a state delegate, won the Democratic nomination for a heavily blue House seat in Southern Maryland on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, capping off an elbow-to-elbow primary …

Alan Wilson, the attorney general of South Carolina, won the state’s Republican primary runoff for governor on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, just days after President Trump made the …

Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president running to succeed Representative Nydia Velázquez, voted at P.S. 19 in Williamsburg with his wife and children. “I’m here, in the school that I …

A couple of weeks after schools let out for the summer in rural Richland Parish, La., teachers there got the biggest year-end bonuses they had ever seen. The money was …

Heavy rain, strong winds and the risk of lightning on Monday caused a significant weather delay in the World Cup match between France and Iraq in Philadelphia. The heaviest rain …

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from barring the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks and candy. Since last year, the Agriculture Department has approved …

A federal judge in Minnesota quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas of state and local officials in a ruling unsealed on Monday, finding that the Trump administration had engaged in a …