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Thanks to a generous land donation, Yosemite National Park will grow by an additional 400 acres of wetlands and meadow habitat on its western boundary. It is the largest planned expansion for the California park in nearly 70 years, said Tim Ahern of the group Trust for Public Land.

Four police officers in Oakland, California, have been fired for involvement in a department-wide sex scandal, Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a press conference Wednesday.

A man being held on a first-degree murder charge got out of his cell at a Kansas City jail and roamed the hallways for nearly two hours before sexually assaulting a female inmate, according to a criminal complaint obtained by CNN.

On May 25, 1996, a freshman at California Polytechnic State University walked home from an off-campus fraternity party with several other students.

Every presidential nominee from both parties has done it for the past four decades.

Donald Trump on Wednesday called for eliminating the sequester on defense spending and increasing military spending to boost troop levels and the number of ships and aircraft.

The Obama administration made two additional cash payments totaling $1.3 billion, after delivering $400 million to Iran by plane in January, to resolve a failed arms deal, administration officials told lawmakers Tuesday.

Joe Hosteen Kellwood, one of the Navajo code talkers during World War II, has died at age 95.

Rep. David Jolly brought a prop Wednesday intended to buzz lawmakers into action on the Zika virus: A jar of 100 mosquitoes.

The widow of a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty less than two months ago is pregnant.

Teen pregnancy is way down. And a study suggests that the reason is increased, and increasingly effective, use of contraceptives.