SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just under half of California voters support Proposition 32, the measure to increase California's minimum wage to $18 an hour, a warning sign about its fate in next week's election, according to new...Read More

NEW YORK — The City Council is pitching its “comprehensive” plan to tackle the housing crisis Friday as part of ongoing negotiations over Mayor Eric Adams’s own “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” zoning ...Read More

ST. LOUIS — Voters in Missouri, Nebraska and Alaska will soon decide whether workers in those states should be entitled to paid sick leave.

If approved, the ballot measures would allow many workers to accrue paid time ...Read More

More than 225,000 Kentuckians cast ballots on the first day of early voting Thursday, signaling a stronger voter turnout than in the 2020 presidential election, Secretary of State Michael Adams’ office said Friday ...Read More

Spanish rescue teams are searching for dozens of missing people in the flood-hit city of Paiporta as the death toll from this week’s storms surpassed 200.

Paiporta, just inland from Valencia on Spain’s east coast, is ...Read More

LOS ANGELES — After all the ballots in this year's presidential contest are cast, the count will begin to be reported. But in the United States' unusual election system, there are in essence two counts —the popular ...Read More