California’s unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. Slower job growth is to blame

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Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school familiesAncestral lands of the Muscogee in Georgia would become a national park under bills in CongressBiden to travel to North Carolina to meet with families of officers killed in deadly shooting

Bounce house swept up by wind kills one child and injures anotherMaryland approves more than $3M for a man wrongly imprisoned for murder for three decades

New Russia sanctions target weapons development and countries assisting in sanctions evasion

Text of the policy statement the Federal Reserve released WednesdayUN secretary-general alarmed by reports of Myanmar airstrikes

2 men plead guilty to killing wild burros in Southern California’s Mojave DesertMan pleads guilty to murder in Hawaii after killing lover and encasing his body in tub

Oregon man found guilty of murder in 1980 cold case of college student after DNA linkAlaska lawmakers fail to override the governor’s education package veto