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From Vice President Kamala Harris to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a number of cabinet nominees, the more progressive ideas of the sunshine state have new national fuel. However, some critics say those ideas may be too much for the rest of the country.

According to new research from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, yet another new variant strain has fueled the spike in Southern California.

Powerful winds raking California on Tuesday reignited fires where a massive summer wildfire burned south of the San Francisco region, authorities said.

The governing body of the Chicago Teachers Union signed off Wednesday on a call for members to refuse to return to classrooms, setting the measure up for a vote later this week as the union and school officials reach an impasse over returning to classrooms amid the pandemic.

Two Republican lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday designed to reform police use-of-force policies and investigations, including proposals that would ban training on chokeholds, punish municipalities that defund police departments and create a board to investigate officer-involved deaths and injuries.

A nurse from Michigan joined President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to sing “Amazing Grace” at a national COVID-19 memorial event on the National Mall Tuesday night.

One name missing in President Donald Trump’s wave of pardons issued during his final hours in office is “Tiger King” Joe Exotic.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs under one years old in their possession, along with the animals’ mothers, to the federal government.

The University of Tennessee is once again looking for a new head football coach after firing head coach Jeremy Pruitt Monday along with nine other football staffers.

When school started and kids worked from their computers at home, Texas high school history teacher Cathy Cluck hit the road. She drove all the way through colonial Virginia up to Gettysburg and back — making stops at historical landmarks along the way.

Police in Pecos, Texas announced that an unidentified teenager found dead in a swimming pool has been identified, a major break in a cold case dating back to the 1960s.

Lawmakers from across Texas will gather Tuesday for a virtual news conference to call on the abolishment of a state holiday: Confederate Heroes Day.

With troops in riot gear and barriers blocking access to the Capitol, Joe Biden was safely sworn in as president from behind miles of fencing.

The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Florida-based member of the right-wing Proud Boys group for his alleged role in breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the Justice Department said.

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama announced plans Tuesday to restore the world’s only full-sized mockup of a space shuttle coupled with an external fuel tank and twin rocket boosters.

Three soldiers died Wednesday in a military helicopter crash in upstate New York.

A Connecticut bakery is paying tribute to Kamala Harris’ historic inauguration as Vice President with a glass shattering cake.

Many people give back in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but a Rhode Island woman donated her entire house to help fund a center dedicated to the civil rights leader’s legacy.