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Craig Smith scored twice and Ryan Johansen had the go-ahead goal late in the third period to help the Nashville Predators beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 Thursday night to clinch first place in the Central Division, the top seed in the Western Conference and the best record in the NHL.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on Yosemite closing campsites because of storm (all times local):

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's first black U.S. senator said Thursday that better training is needed to help police officers recognize biases in response to last month's shooting of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man shot by Sacramento police.

Adam Eaton lay face first in the dirt behind home plate, catching his breath after a lengthy sprint around the bases.

A survivor of the Parkland school shooting said he was assured by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday night that the Second Amendment is safe.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The Menendez brothers, who were convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion nearly three decades ago, have been reunited in a Southern California prison.

ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on an explosion inside a Sam's Club store in Southern California (all times local):

Thousands of the readers of The Washington Post suffered strokes, heart attacks and an outbreak of social disease this week in the wake of its big front-page story that Robert Mueller, in hot pursuit of the president for lo! these many months, has informed Mr. Trump's lawyers that the president ...

The recent decision by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Reddit founder Steve Huffman to make the world safe by removing "gun-related content" from their sites, represent a politically-driven censorship effort to remove opposing views on hot-button issues and may have unintended consequences.

The Russian General Staff has never forgotten that they almost lost World War II — and won World War II — because of strategic surprise. Lessons from what Russia calls the Great Fatherland War are today applied to its preparations for nuclear war.

As it mulls the future of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the U.S. finds itself at odds with Europe on policies toward the Islamic Republic. The existence of conflicting camps amongst the parties to the nuclear agreement means that, whether the accord is "fixed or ...

Timing is critical in both statecraft and diplomacy, but President Trump couldn't have chosen a worse time to honor Russian dictator Vladimir Putin with a high-level, one-on-one meeting.

The judge who ruled the other day that coffee purveyors in California must put a cancer-risk warning label on their beans calls to mind the old joke about the man, getting a little long in the tooth, who was told by his doctor that he would have to give up ...

As a second-generation Irish Catholic immigrant, I was shocked to learn that some think Christians in this country used "privilege" to achieve success ("George Washington University to host seminar tackling 'Christian privilege,'" Web, April 3). I recall my father telling me how, when he was a young man looking for ...

If you belong to the category of people who do not believe in the idealist concept that the most prosperous country in the world has a moral responsibility to help other nations, or that American influence around the world depends partially on foreign aid, here are a few concrete reasons ...

THE LARGESSE OF THE SEA MAIDEN: STORIES

By Denis Johnson

Random House, $27, 207 pages

He wrote directly too, and his readers, his peers, and the literary establishment loved the gritty talk and the grittier characters. His 2007 novel "Tree of Smoke" won the National Book Award and was a ...

President Trump wants to get more manpower on the border by deploying the National Guard, but there's another option: he could tell the Border Patrol to get agents out from behind their desks and into the field on actual patrol duty.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto scolded President Trump in a new video Thursday for taking a "threatening" attitude toward his country, a day after Mr. Trump ordered the National Guard to patrol the border between the two nations.

Having already recorded his first victory as a manager — followed by his first series sweep, first four-game winning streak and first two losses — Washington manager Dave Martinez donned the home whites at Nationals Park for the first time.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is prepared to send National Guard troops from the Midwest state to the U.S.-Mexico border if President Donald Trump's administration requests the help.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State trustees are expected to approve a two-year contract extension for football coach Urban Meyer on Friday.

BUENOS AIRES — In a breakneck one-two punch, Brazil's highest court and a top anti-corruption judge ordered former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to prison to face corruption charges — effectively quashing the comeback hopes of the most influential Latin American leftist politician of his generation.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Tim Tebow sure knows how to make an entrance.

Playing his first game in Double-A ball, Tebow hit a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw. The New York Mets minor leaguer connected on a frigid Thursday night at home for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in ...

A D.C. court on Thursday sentenced two Turkish-American men to a year and a day in prison for their roles in an attack on protesters in May that strained U.S.-Turkey relations amid local outcries for justice.

Artillery and arias may seem like an unlikely mix, but the stories of active-duty soldiers and U.S. Army veterans will form the libretto for "The Falling and The Rising," an opera making its world premiere Friday on the campus of Texas Christian University.