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CHICAGO (AP) - An unusual legal challenge may upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would hike a real estate tax on high-end property sales to fund services for homeless people. Such cityw...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador has to determine how much it will cost taxpayers when the companies operating the province's offshore oilfields decide to pull up their pipelines and leave...

Nebraska's top election official has ruled that voters will get to decide this year whether to repeal a law that gives taxpayer money for private school scholarships. But both Nebraska Secretary of St...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Friday that would legalize skill games, the slots-like betting machines that proliferated in businesses around the state before an on-again, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - For Vladimir Putin, victory in Ukraine may run through Texas' Rio Grande Valley. In recent weeks, Russian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have spread and amplifie...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has denied a news report that he pushed for an exception to the state's new fast-food minimum wage law that benefits a wealthy c...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A shirtless candidate for U.S. Senate broke through the ice of a Madison lake Thursday hoping to pour cold water on any notion that he's a soft Californian, not a hardy Wisconsini...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Eight sports gambling companies received North Carolina government licenses on Thursday so they can accept wagers from people in the state from mobile devices and computers in les...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island's Progressive Conservative government tabled a $3.2-billion budget Thursday with a projected deficit of $85 million. Finance Minister Jill Burridge's operating bud...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris plans to return to the swing state of Wisconsin next week for an event touting worker apprenticeship programs, the White House announced Thursday. The...