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In a vote of 14-1, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to increase the city's minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour by 2020. More than 40 percent of the workforce earns less than the hourly wage.

Amazon workers begin voting Friday on whether to form a union at a company warehouse on Staten Island in New York. If the yes votes prevail, it would be the first Amazon union in the U.S.

At the fourth and final hearing, representatives from the American Bar Association lauded Jackson's resume and career. GOP panel members continued their focus on her handling of child pornography.

A recent ad in the Arizona gubernatorial campaign raises an old question: Can candidates simply lie in their paid ads? The short answer is yes.

Sgt. Cody Wolf died in World War II on Jan. 11, 1944, when his plane was shot down. Weeks before his death, he contributed to a Christmas broadcast recorded on the front lines. His daughter, Margaret Ann Wolf Harris, heard that recording for the first time in December.

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, who served under the Clinton administration, has died.

Russia claims to have hit a weapons depot in Ukraine's west, and Ukrainians continue to seek refuge in other parts of their country, as well as neighboring countries.

Florida's legislature has voted to strip Disney's self-government — put in place decades ago. The move is a win for GOP Gov. DeSantis who has been in a public spat with the entertainment giant.

A report says instances of political violence were down slightly in 2021 from the year before. But militant groups were recruiting and shifting tactics to lay the groundwork for increased violence.

Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and threatened small villages in New Mexico, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland.