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By MARY CLARE JALONICK, WILL GRAVES and MICHAEL BALSAMOOlympic gold medalist Simone Biles told Congress in forceful testimony Wednesday that federal law enforcement and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of […]

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and EUGENE GARCIA LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a blitz of TV ads and a last-minute rally, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom urged voters Sunday to turn back a looming recall vote that could remove him […]

Two employees at an eastern North Carolina industrial operation died at the site on Sunday, authorities said. Sheriff’s detectives were investigating what happened.  Cumberland County deputies arrived Sunday afternoon at the Valley Proteins Inc. plant in Fayetteville after the employees […]

By JENNIFER PELTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN The world solemnly marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday, grieving lost lives and shattered American unity in commemorations that unfolded just weeks after the bloody end of the Afghanistan war that […]

By LORI HINNANT and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY In a custom-built secure complex embedded within a 13th-century courthouse, France on Wednesday began the trial of 20 men accused in the Islamic State group’s 2015 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead […]

CONOVER, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina police officers shot and wounded a man who was accused of ramming a police car and trying to hit his father, authorities said.  A news release from the Conover Police Department says the […]

By Tyria McCray Staff Writer Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin has made history. Granted she is the 62nd mayor of Raleigh, but she is the first mayor to face a recall.  This decision came after much deliberation after Mayor Baldwin took […]

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANDREW DALTON Actor Michael K. Williams, who as the rogue robber of drug dealers Omar Little on “The Wire” created one of the most beloved and enduring characters in a prime era of television, died […]

By GARY D. ROBERTSON A North Carolina appeals court on Friday blocked an order that had allowed tens of thousands of felony offenders who aren’t serving prison or jail time to immediately register to vote and cast ballots. The state […]

By ROXANA HEGEMAN and ALLEN G. BREED There was a time when Black farms prospered. Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910 Black farmers had amassed more than 16 million acres of land and made up about 14 percent […]