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Hassan Nasrallah propelled Hezbollah in Lebanon into one of the world's most powerful paramilitary factions and Israel's constant foe.

He is mostly forgotten today. But Caryl Chessman's death penalty conviction dominated the debate about capital punishment for years.

In 2022, GOP Rep. John Duarte beat Adam Gray by just 564 votes. Both men are campaigning hard to win the rematch in a moderate Central Valley district.

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed illegal immigration, her most challenging campaign issue, during her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since 2021.

Israel says the militant group's headquarters is located under residential buildings in Beirut suburb, which were hit.

Solar, wind, hydrogen and other renewable technologies are likely to become cheaper and available at a rapid clip, creating huge business and political opportunities.

As half a million in Lebanon are displaced by the raging Israel-Hezbollah conflict, people search for safety and sanity in crowded homes and shelters.

Here's a look at the so-called Axis of Resistance, an Iran-backed coalition including Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups devoted to destroying Israel.

A strike would cause billions of dollars in economic damage and force shippers to divert more products to the West Coast, raising costs for retailers and ultimately consumers.

If you think the United States was better off under Trump 1.0, stop relying on your gauzy memory and check the record.

Breane Wingfield said she was abused at Los Angeles County juvenile detention facilities at a Senate hearing on reducing rape in US prisons

Many immigrants want to get citizenship in time to vote in the upcoming election. The Biden administration says the uptick in new citizens is due to efforts to reduce a backlog of applications that mounted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his one term, Donald Trump made America less safe. He should never again have the 'godlike power' to launch a nuclear strike.

Terrible work-life balance is widely blamed for South Korea's nose-diving fertility rate, which politicians have described as a national emergency.

Dick Moss, the lawyer who won the arbitration case that created free agency for MLB players in 1976, has died in Santa Monica, according to family. He was 93.

Mexico's president-elect says Spain's king is not invited to her inauguration because the crown never answered an apology demand over its colonial legacy.

As millions of Chinese college graduates have started looking for work, youth unemployment is on the rise again.

New York magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi was suspended after acknowledging an inappropriate personal relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The conflict between U.S.-backed Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah could reach unprecedented levels of danger and destruction if it becomes all-out war.

Former President Trump calls his long and rambling speeches a sign of his 'genius' for weaving together disparate facts. Others say they may mark a cognitive decline.

The website of a fake San Francisco news station created a video falsely claiming that Kamala Harris was involved in a car accident in 2011, intelligence officials say.

Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group backed by Iran, appears to have hit the lowest point in its more than 40-year history.

Brett Favre, 54, says he has Parkinson's disease while testifying before a House committee about welfare fraud in which he was allegedly involved in Mississippi.

With a carefully orchestrated public profile, the president of El Salvador claims sky-high popularity after jailing gangs. The reality is more complicated.