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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (left) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city and county of Los Angeles, plus four other cities, were joining California's lawsuit over the 2020 census citizenship question in May.

California Legal Challenges To Census Citizenship Question To Continue

A federal judge in San Francisco has rejected the Trump administration's motion to dismiss two lawsuits over the 2020 census question. A potential trial could start in January 2019.

Report Says Faculty At Connecticut School Sexually Abused Students For Years

A law firm found sexual abuse by seven now-former staffers against 16 students — going back as far as 1969 and lasting until 1992.

Muslim pilgrims touch the Kaaba stone, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The hajj begins on Sunday and lasts through Friday, Aug. 24.

Millions Of Muslim Worshipers Flock To Mecca For Hajj

The holy event starts Sunday and lasts until next Friday.

"We're giving them the information they may not want, but everyone needs to hear," said Governor Dannel Malloy on July 25 at the state legislative office building in Hartford.

Malloy Order On Connecticut Toll Study Garners Funding

The state bond commission approved funding for a $10 million study of road tolls Wednesday .

In Maine, a teenager serves ice cream at a Dairy Queen for the summer. But data show teens' participation in the labor force is on the decline, and it has been for decades.

No Teen Lifeguard On Duty: Summer Jobs Are No Longer An Attraction

More teens have shifted away from typical summer jobs in recent years, opting to spend time with family instead, or take unpaid internships.

Kijana Rose fills a plastic balloon with marijuana vapor for one of her Beginners Ganja Yoga Flow students.

Marijuana Entrepreneurs Given 'Priority' In Mass. Are Struggling To Get Through Licensing Process

So you've got priority in getting your marijuana license application reviewed in Massachusetts. But you've got a major hurdle ahead of you — getting…

Children and a woman sit on a locally made vehicle in Laos as they travel during flooding caused by the collapse of a dam in the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydroelectric project in Attapeu Province.

Huge Flood From Failed Dam In Laos Has Now Spread To Cambodia

The flooding has killed at least 27 people in Laos. In Cambodia, the Sekong River rose to nearly 12 meters (almost 40 feet) on Thursday — a height that flooded 17 villages.

Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y. (center) held a press conference earlier this month outside Manhattan federal court with Liz OuYang (left) of the New York Immigration Coalition and other critics of the new citizenship question on the 2020 census.

Multi-State Lawsuit Against Census Citizenship Question To Move Ahead

A federal judge in New York said the commerce secretary's decision to add the controversial question to the 2020 census may have been "motivated at least in part by discriminatory animus."

Massachusetts state Sen. Karen Spilka consults with her communications director, Rachel Lefsky (left), prior to the Senate Ways and Means executive session Thursday.

Karen Spilka Takes Up The Gavel As New Massachusetts Senate President

Karen Spilka takes over as president of the Massachusetts Senate, capping a tumultuous eight-month period for the chamber. The Ashland Democrat was…

Facebook shares tumbled Thursday after it announced a slowdown in user growth and projected that its revenue growth would decelerate for the rest of 2018.

Facebook's Big Growth Is Slowing, Sending Its Stock Tumbling

Facebook's stock dropped nearly 20 percent — the day after reporting that its user growth has stalled and that it expects revenue growth to slow for the rest of the year.

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