Oakland City Councilmember Kevin Jenkins has become the city’s new interim mayor – the third person to hold the city’s ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee has officially filed a campaign account to run for Oakland mayor. She filed the paperwork at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, according to the city of Oakland's ...

A self-described group of “business, labor, community, government, and faith leaders” released an open letter last month asking Lee to run for mayor.

IN AN EVENTFUL and somewhat convoluted day in Oakland’s civic life, Councilmember Kevin Jenkins is now interim mayor, ...

A New York appellate court on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump's bid to halt sentencing set for Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn ...

An Emboldened Trump Talks of Taking Greenland and Panama Canal by Force In a rambling news conference from his private Florida club, President-elect Trump refused to rule out using military force ...

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region ...

Ukraine's air force says one of its F-16 fighter jet pilots shot down six missiles during a Russian aerial attack last month. Meanwhile, Moscow says its troops have inflicted a series of defeats ...

Scientists consider the Lord Howe Island stick insect, often called the "tree lobster," the world’s rarest insect. It was thought extinct after black rats coming ashore from the SS Makambo in 1918 ...