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When the Islamic State took the town last year, thousands of Yazidi people were trapped in Mount Sinjar. The Kurdish offensive is being backed by coalition airstrikes.

No one has the exact same definition of the California dream. Ask the 39 million current Californians about what the dream should be, and aside from most of us agreeing that the daily temperature should dip no colder than the mid-50s, you’ll likely get 39 million very different answers.

The 8.3 magnitude quake caused high waves to hit towns on Chile's central coast. A million people fled their homes following a tsunami alert.

The man wanted in four assaults this week remains at large

Carly Fiorina has plenty of California ties — and now she’ll be asked to help Ted Cruz block Donald Trump, starting at this weekend's California Republican Party convention.

Political donors have spent a record $458 million on 17 statewide November ballot initiatives in California, beating the state's own record for the most spent on propositions appearing on state ballots in a single year, campaign reports filed Thursday show.

The trial for the militants who seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon this year is close to wrapping up. The standoff traumatized and divided nearby Burns, Ore.

A U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Dec. 3, according to the Department of Defense. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew R. Ammerman, 29, died in Zabul Province when he was hit with small arms fire while taking part in a clearing operation.

NPR's politics team has annotated Hillary Clinton's Monday speech, in which she spoke about student debt, unions and tax rates.

The storm looks likely to stay well offshore, but it is still dumping a lot of rain on the mid-Atlantic states. Bermuda could also be in the crosshairs.