Manchin decision hurts Democrats’ Senate hopes and sparks new speculation about a presidential bid

Damian Lillard cheered in his return to Portland after offseason trade to the Bucks

Mississippi lawmakers advance bill to legalize online sports bettingResidents of an east Arkansas town have been without water for the past two weeks

Spring a leak? Google will find it through a new partnership aimed at saving water in New MexicoBill targeting college IDs clears Kentucky Senate in effort to revise voter identification lawNFL says Super Bowl viewers will only see 3 sports betting ads during broadcast of the game

Oklahoma governor says he’s not interested in changing from lethal injection to nitrogen executionsAmbassador responds to call by Evert and Navratilova to keep women’s tennis out of Saudi Arabia

Little-known Democrat runs for North Dakota governor

Police in Northern California arrest boy, 14, in non-fatal shooting of fellow high school studentUS Supreme Court declines to hear 2nd Illinois case challenging state’s ban on semiautomatic weapons

Police name dead suspect in 3 Virginia cold cases, including 2 of the ‘Colonial Parkway Murders’US fugitive accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is booked into a Utah jail

Flooded Vermont capital city demands that post office be restoredLisa Bonet files for divorce from Jason Momoa 18 years after they became a couple