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SEATTLE — Full control and oversight of the Seattle Police Department was returned to city officials Wednesday when a federal judge formally ended 13 years of oversight stemming from a lawsuit over police abuses filed by...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cardi B will only address pregnancy rumors on her own time. She made that abundantly clear with a pen and scathing words — both directed to one brash and curious man.

The Grammy-winning rapper was seen ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thomas Schumacher, the long-serving executive who was key to Walt Disney Co.’s success on Broadway, is stepping down this month, the company said Wednesday.

The producer joined Disney 38 years ago and ...Read more

After nearly three decades of silence, dozens of victims of Jeffrey Epstein and their supporters massed at the foot of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, demanding the release of all government records pertaining to Epstein as...Read more

More than 1,000 past and present Health and Human Service workers signed a petition calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The dissatisfied health care professionals addressed their “Enough ...Read more

“The Paper,” premiering Thursday on Peacock, is a belated spinoff of “The Office,” much as Peacock is a sort of spinoff of NBC, where the former show aired on Thursdays from 2005 to 2013. In the new series, Dunder ...Read more

General Motors Co. worker Annie Ignaczak spent years walking in circles on concrete factory floors, assembling the same parts and counting down hundreds of pieces she and her coworkers needed to finish before lunch.

“...Read more

WASHINGTON — As tensions between the United States and Canada have deepened, a longstanding historical divide has reopened between the countries’ biggest automotive unions.

The United Auto Workers, which represented ...Read more

Best Buy has another partnership. Customers can now use Uber Eats to deliver electronics from the Richfield-based company’s stores.

Uber on Tuesday said the partnership will cover a wide range of electronics for on-...Read more

DENVER — A pitch to shore up Colorado’s Medicaid program and schools by ramping up taxes on the state’s wealthiest residents will likely go to voters next year under a proposal set to be announced Wednesday morning ...Read more

CHICAGO — The nearly 30,000 people incarcerated in Illinois prisons may begin having their mail scanned and subjected to other security measures following reports that those incarcerated and staff members who work in ...Read more

This fourth “The Conjuring” movie claims to be “Last Rites,” and let’s hope that’s a promise. While it’s highly likely the wildly successful Conjuring Cinematic Universe itself will continue, whether that’s...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California, Oregon and Washington are joining forces to insulate vaccine guidance and other public health recommendations from political interference, a direct response to turmoil at the U.S. Centers...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court in Chicago on Tuesday overturned a ruling by a lower court that found it unconstitutional for Illinois residents with concealed carry permits to be barred from carrying guns on public ...Read more

'THE CONJURING: LAST RITES'

Rated R for bloody/violent content and terror.

What it’s about: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one of their last cases with their daughter Judy leading the way.

The...Read more

We’ve put off writing about “Twinless” for as long as possible.

We’ve dreaded this task not because the film isn’t worth writing about; on the contrary, the sophomore effort from writer-director-producer James ...Read more

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ring Wednesday called for the release of all files on the notorious pedophile and one said the abuser’s “biggest brag” was his cozy relationship to President Donald Trump.

“The...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than two decades, satellites have tracked the total amounts of water held in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, soil and the world’s vast natural reservoirs underground — aquifers. An ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Portions of a historic California Gold Rush town once home to Chinese miners was burned as hundreds of lightning strikes sparked nearly two dozen fires across Northern California.

The 22 wildfires, which ...Read more

One reason for persistent political disagreements is that it can be hard to discern the outcomes of certain policies.

Consider the minimum wage. Raising it provides an immediate boost to minimum wage workers. But there’...Read more