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California Gov. Jerry Brown delivered his final State of the State address on Thursday to lawmakers in Sacramento. Brown is California's longest-serving governor.

President Trump unveiled a task force report on reviving rural prosperity at a Farm Bureau convention in Nashville, Tenn., Monday. Rural voters were a key part of Trump's winning election coalition.

At a hair salon on the west side of Cleveland, Kritzia Basmeson is finishing her shift, packing away brushes and curling irons before going to pick up her two daughters from school. She just arrived in Cleveland from Puerto Rico a few weeks ago, one of the thousands of people being resettled in Northeast Ohio after Hurricane Maria. For Basmeson, the memories of the storm are still vivid.

The musings of the future president at age 21 reveal familiar themes of alienation and lack of belonging that would arise again in his later writing.

The French-Cuban twins of Ibeyi are back with Ash, a new record that confronts themes of womanhood, racism and faith.

James Alex Fields Jr., who allegedly rammed a group of demonstrators, has been charged with murder and several other counts. Federal authorities say they are also opening a civil rights investigation.

The U.S. is producing more oil than ever, even as calls to leave all fossil fuels in the ground grow louder. Now the "keep it in the ground" movement is taking its fight to the heart of oil country.

His magical realist novel on the lives of refugees "hints at possibilities for doing better," judges said. And it won him the prize, which recognizes fiction tackling today's thorniest social issues.

While Planned Parenthood weathers attacks and a potential government shutdown looms, Americans are deeply ambivalent on abortion.

Animal advocates were outraged after discovering videos of leashed monkeys picking coconuts in Thailand. But monkey trainers and scientists say it's common practice and doesn't count as abuse.