Woman swept out to sea off Japanese beach is rescued 37 hours later — and 50 miles offshore

The amount of state funding headed to Kentucky’s largest city to support downtown renewal, education, health care and other priorities shows that the days of talking about an urban-rural divide in the Bluegrass State are “now behind us,” Louisville’s mayor said Monday. The new two-year state budget passed by the Republican-dominated legislature will pump more […]

Vice President Kamala Harris was vital in a push to help an undocumented Mexican immigrant become the first licensed attorney in U.S. history. Harris, then-California’s attorney general, came out in support of the case of Sergio Covarrubias Garcia, who in 2012 was fighting a legal battle to earn his license as an attorney, according to […]