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It was ruled that the House speaker's district was racially gerrymandered and needed to be redrawn. Now Republican Kirk Cox faces his first competitive race in 30 years.

A Washington attorney and criminal justice reform advocate who previously served time in prison is seeking to become the first formerly incarcerated person elected to the Washington Legislature.

Four defendants, including three big U.S. distributors, have struck a deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties. It doesn't resolve thousands of other lawsuits filed against the firms across the U.S.

The Utah senator outed himself over the weekend as the owner of a mostly nondescript Twitter handle that defended Romney and was critical of President Trump.

Cigarette smuggling has been the focus of a United Nations conference in New York this week.

Two former WorldCom executives were arrested this morning and will be arraigned today in connection with the multibillion-dollar accounting scandal at the company.

Onstage, Joplin oozed confidence, sexuality and exuberance, but biographer Holly George-Warren describes the singer as a bookworm who worked hard to create her "blues feelin' mama" musical persona.

Together with three of his former banjo students, Joe Troop creates music that combines the Latin American influences of his adopted home with the bluegrass he grew up on.

Israel's longtime prime minister had been given a mandate to form a governing coalition after last month's close election. The mandate now falls to his chief rival, Benny Gantz.

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, wrote his shocking dystopian novel, “It Can’t Happen Here,” in 1935. The next…