Politics

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Jacob Reitan said he told Gwen Walz he was gay before he told his parents. Reitan was a student in 1999 at Mankato West High School in Minnesota, where Walz and her husband, Tim, were teachers.

HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono and the state's incumbent congressional representatives won their races in the Democratic Party's primary election on Saturday. Hawaii is a vote-by-mail state.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris promised Saturday to work to eliminate taxes on tips paid to restaurant and other service industry employees, echoing a pledge that her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, has made, and marking a rare inst

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (AP) — No one in this wealthy California community known for its white-sand beaches and storybook charm has a street address. But unlike the houses in Carmel-By-The-Sea, those days may soon be numbered.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed has launched a new crackdown on people sleeping outside in a campaign to clear the sidewalks of homeless encampments that have come to define the city.

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents.

Pop superstar Celine Dion is pushing back against a video of her purportedly used at a campaign rally for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.

PHOENIX (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, “misspoke” in a 2018 video about "weapons of war that I carried in war,” a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson said Saturday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A worker at a federal prison in California has died and investigators are examining whether he was exposed to fentanyl shortly before his death, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

MADISON, Wis.