Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

A bill in California wants to make more rental housing available to tenants with pets

Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings

A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X

Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program

A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group

A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job

It's a full agenda for Ajay Banga as he nears the end of his first year as World Bank president

Persistently high interest rates have led Missouri lawmakers to significantly expand a state loan program for farmers and small businesses

The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants

The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration

Legislation that could ban TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake has won a major boost as House Republicans included it in a package of bills that would send U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel

Atlantic City casinos are bracing for new threats from as many as three new casinos in or near New York City

Tesla’s stock tumbled below $150 per share, giving up all of the gains made over the past year as the electric vehicle maker reels from falling sales and steep discounts intended to lure more buyers

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small says he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter

Croatia’s ruling conservatives says that talks are already underway on the formation of a new governing majority following a highly contested parliamentary election that saw a far-right party emerge as a potential kingmaker

European Union leaders debated at a summit in Brussels a new “European Competitiveness Deal” aimed at helping the 27-nation bloc close the gap with Chinese and American rivals

Top NATO and European Union officials are urging industrialized nations to take quick and concrete steps to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine

Asian stocks have tumbled, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 3.5% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights

Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine

Europe’s farmers are angry, and staging their biggest protests in half a century

The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho

Casinos in the northeastern U.S. are dealing with numerous challenges as they brace for the arrival of new competitors in New York City

A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue

The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation