LOS ANGELES — Humberto Duran closed his eyes and told his mother what he'd told her so many times before: He was going to die in prison. After all these years, he was sure of it.

"No," she said, from across the visiting room table. "Have faith."

After spending his whole adult life behind bars, by 2010 Duran had finally lost hope. Since ...Read more

Health officials have detected highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of commercial turkeys in Sacramento County, the latest outbreak to hit the Central Valley’s poultry industry.

U.S. public health officials have been tracking sporadic cases of the avian influenza in wild birds, commercial poultry and backyard or hobbyist flocks for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If Maria del Carmen Díaz, 69, and Jose Carlos Silva, 67, had the retirement of their dreams, they'd own a house somewhere in the California desert. They would have a backyard where their eight grandchildren could play. Afternoons would be spent relaxing, Díaz knitting while her husband strummed guitar.

Instead, the couple ...Read more

Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix most of her teeth with root canals and crowns, Carroll said, but she was wary of traveling a long road of dental work.

Then Carroll saw a TV commercial for another path: ClearChoice Dental Implant ...Read more

ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump recaptured Georgia on Tuesday, notching a crucial victory for his comeback bid four years after the Republican’s defeat in the state helped doom his reelection chances and put him on a collision course with GOP leaders and local prosecutors.

Trump sealed his win over Vice President Kamala Harris in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen was leading in Nevada’s Senate race against Republican candidate Sam Brown by about 6,000 votes Tuesday night.

Rosen received 48.1% of the votes and Brown received 47.5% in Nevada’s Senate race.

Polls consistently showed the Nevada junior senator leading her GOP opponent throughout the election cycle, ...Read more

Senate Republicans are on track to claim the majority in the 119th Congress.

Gov. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., quickly flipped the Mountain State’s Senate seat Tuesday night, putting the Democrats’ current 51-49 margin in jeopardy and making it so only one more Senate pickup would put Republicans in the driver’s seat starting in January.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Revelers attending the Harris-Walz campaign’s election party at Howard University began the night looking to celebrate a night of firsts.

Thousands had gathered at the Yard, a large open space on the Washington, D.C., campus, hoping to cheer the election of the first Black woman to the presidency. If that comes to pass, there ...Read more

Most Americans used to vote on Election Day, and a small percentage of voters cast their ballots as absentee voters through the mail. That changed starting in the late 1970s, when some states began to allow no-excuse absentee voting and early in-person voting. Many more states chose to add these methods after the 2000 election, and by 2016, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus orchestrated an unusual play on the House floor during a rare election night, 5 p.m. pro forma session that resulted in killing, at least for now, a broadly popular bill that was set to hit the floor as soon as next week.

Reps. Garret Graves, R-La., and Abigail Spanberger, D-...Read more

The dollar staged its biggest rally since March 2020 as the early results of the U.S. presidential election indicated that Donald Trump had an edge in some key states, triggering a sharp rise in Treasury yields on speculation his policies would keep U.S. interest rates elevated.

The rise in bond yields promised to pull cash into the U.S. an ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe won the race to become the state’s 58th governor on Tuesday, after a campaign centered on his extensive business experience and promises of steady conservative leadership.

Kehoe, a 62-year-old former Jefferson City car dealer, state senator and current lieutenant governor, courted voters ...Read more

MIAMI — Incumbent Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott was reelected Tuesday, defeating former Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in an election that ended up not being as close as the latest polls had been suggesting.

Scott won with 54% of the vote, surpassing the 44% obtained by Mucarsel-Powell, according to data available at 8:15 p.m. on ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Embattled City Council member Omar Torres was arrested on suspicion of child molestation Tuesday, hours after submitted his resignation to the city.

The connection to a police investigation into his alleged sexual interest in minors revealed last month was not immediately clear, but the details made public in that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani is playing hide-and-seek with “the vast majority” of belongings he was ordered to hand over to the Georgia mother and daughter he was found liable for defaming, the women’s lawyers said in court filings Tuesday.

Around four weeks ago, Giuliani emptied his multimillion-dollar E. 66th St. apartment, save for “...Read more

Soft cheeses sold under several brands have been recalled from California, Texas, Missouri and nine other states after listeria was found in the manufacturing facility.

Savencia Cheese USA is based in New Holland, Pennsylvania, but said in its FDA-posted recall notice that the problem was in the company’s Lena, Illinois, facility.

“Through...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump returned to Palm Beach County on Tuesday, where he voted, told his staff the campaign was on the verge of victory, and returned to Mar-a-Lago to wait for results that may show if he’ll win another term as president.

“I feel very confident,” he said after voting in Palm Beach.

The former president, ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump ushered in Election Day with a late-night turned early-morning rally in Michigan's second largest city, telling thousands of supporters inside Van Andel Arena that "if we win Michigan, we win it all."

Trump railed against his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and an "evil Democrat ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon that there has been “a lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia” throughout the day.

Where that “talk” was coming from is not clear. Aside from a few minor dustups — the kind typical of any election day in a big city — Republicans ...Read more