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Target has Pride merchandise in fewer stores this year after backlash it received after pulling some items from last year's collection.

Officials at the Minneapolis-based company acknowledged later in the summer that the ...Read more

The California Coastal Commission has drawn a line in the sand: Allow transgender surfers to compete, or you’ll be in violation of the Coastal Act.

A two-day surf contest happening this weekend in Huntington Beach, ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Archdiocese of Seattle is refusing to turn over documents showing how it handled child sexual abuse allegations by church leaders, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a news conference Thursday...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —The University of Pennsylvania is adding security for this year's graduation ceremony, as protests of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza grow heading into their third week.

In an update to parents, families, ...Read more

The value of a college degree largely depends on where you go, a new HEA Group study found.

And as college tuition continues to increase – more than 30% in the next five years for Cal State University – some are ...Read more

Twenty-five Republican-led states, including Georgia, filed a legal challenge Thursday to new federal regulations on air pollution from power plants that generate electricity.

The new rule, announced in April, would ...Read more

Eilon Presman was about 100 feet from the UCLA Palestinian solidarity encampment when he heard the screams: "Zionist! Zionist!"

The 20-year-old junior, who is Israeli, realized the activists were pointing at him.

"Human ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration proposed a rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the deportation process for migrants who are already ineligible for asylum.

The change isn't expected to have broad implications, but ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he and his staff have been reviewing former President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda in detail to prepare a potential onslaught of environmental, immigration ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota could become the next state to ban police officer training on "excited delirium," a term that has been rejected by major medical associations in recent years as pseudoscience used to justify ...Read more

The Illinois House on Thursday passed Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s initiative to consolidate early childhood services under a single agency, paving the way for the creation of a new state Department of Early Childhood.

“We ...Read more

The Metropolitan Oakland International Airport will be renamed to the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, following a unanimous vote by the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners on Thursday.

The decision to ...Read more

Citing increasing unlawfulness, Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday called on the University of Pennsylvania to disband a pro-Palestinian encampment that has spent two weeks on the Ivy League campus.

“Over the last 24 hours ....Read more

NEW YORK — The New York State prison system continues to send inmates with mental illness disabilities to solitary confinement, despite a 2022 state law banning them from doing so, according to a new class action lawsuit...Read more

For more than 150 years, visitors have taken hundreds of millions of photographs of Yosemite National Park.

But many of the park’s most iconic images — timeless, internationally famous shots of Half Dome, Tunnel View,...Read more

BALTIMORE — Salvage crews have been preparing explosive charges that will be used in a controlled demolition of the section of the Key Bridge that landed atop the Dali container ship, officials said Thursday, which will ...Read more

A business owner has pleaded guilty to dumping thousands of gallons of hazardous substances into an Ohio river, killing more than 40,000 fish, officials said.

“There’s a right way and a wrong way to do business,” ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska House adopted the capital budget in a 39-1 vote Wednesday, displaying a rare moment of cohesion between the Republican-controlled majority and the more progressive minority.

Rep. Bryce Edgmon...Read more

NEW YORK — Hui Qin, the Chinese billionaire who admitted in March to making straw donations to political campaigns — including Mayor Eric Adams’ — was sentenced Thursday to seven months in prison and removal from ...Read more

The trickle of voters who kicked off early in-person voting last week seemed to continue Thursday as the last day to cast a ballot in person before Tuesday’s primary drew to a close.

By Thursday afternoon, almost 150,...Read more