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Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Democrat JoAnna Mendoza are battling over some of the hardest-fought political turf in America. But for voters, it's more of a proxy fight over the president.

The Republican reckoning tests a party infrastructure reshaped around President Trump since his insurgent rise in 2015 transformed the GOP.

Federal judges have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration's efforts to wrest control over state voting processes and intimidate state and local elections officials.

The L.A. mayor's race suddenly looks like a tossup. These voters explain why they're Team Bass or Team Raman.

The current Congress has passed fewer bills and conducted less oversight than any of its predecessors in modern history, according to congressional scholars.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and conflict with the Iran-backed Houthis of Yemen have unsettled Saudi Arabia, a kingdom unused to conflicts playing out on home turf.

As Paris merchants board up shops and arm themselves with pepper spray, the city remains suspended between deep social unrest and ordinary daily life.

The internet exploded with fury after the parents of 3-year-old soccer phenomenon Nevada Pierre claimed on Instagram that police had been called to remove their son from a youth sports league because he was too talented. Recently released body camera recordings shed light on what took place.

Trump's break from long-standing tradition in U.S.-Russia relations was real, but it should not have been entirely surprising.

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry is no longer a press advisor at the State Department, reportedly resigning days after videos of a confrontation at a Washington Wizards game went viral.

Mohammed Annour and Moubarak Abdallah say South Bay-based nonprofit iACT helped save their lives, with soccer helping them escape African refugee camps.

The penalty in New Mexico stems from a lawsuit about a data privacy scandal that Facebook faced more than eight years ago.

Trump's push to end the war that has raged since 2022 comes as midterm elections could give Democrats control of Congress, expanding their oversight powers.

The lawsuit accuses Trump and his administration of using "shoddily compiled lists of supposed noncitizens" and "coercive threats" against state officials to assert federal control over the midterms.

The decision is a rare win for trans rights at the Supreme Court.

Two large sections of central Paris were shut down in a curfew Monday night as France was reeling from a weekend of nationwide rioting and looting that left much of the country shaken.

El Niño has brought more -- and stronger -- storms to the Pacific Ocean. People on Mexico's western coastline are exhausted

AI companies are drawn to Culver City as Hollywood experiments with technology.

A White House that has enjoyed relative stability over the past two years has returned to a state of disarray that characterized much of Trump's early political career.

The 63-year-old bridge connecting San Pedro to Terminal Island is undergoing construction to replace its aging deck.