As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to thousands after deadly storms, it will do so Saturday under a smog warning and as all of southern Texas starts to feel the heat

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Honolulu's former top prosecutor has been found not guilty in a bribery case that alleged employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed him with campaign donations in exchange for his prosecution of a former company employee

U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in the United Arab Emirates, despite the oil-rich countrys difficulties in managing debts backed by its oil reserves

When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, it was largely seen in connection with the false claim by then-President Donald Trumps supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud

Security footage posted online raises questions about the Anchorage Police Departments account of what happened when officers fatally shot a man armed with a long gun earlier this week

A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt follows Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say Menendez arranged

World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler has teed off at the PGA Championship hours after being arrested

South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the Norths east coast, Yonhap news agency reports

Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol

The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama

At least 4 killed as powerful storms move through Houston, mayor's office says

A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a convenience store in 2019, prosecutors said as the officers murder trial opened Thursday

A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriffs deputy who killed the Black U.S. Air Force airman and police radio traffic reinforce their assertion that the deputy was directed to the wrong apartment while re...

A federal judge is rejecting a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state Supreme Court who claims a state agency is unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion

The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican lawmakers in 2021 that were struck down by a state judge as unconstitutional

US Coast Guard says early estimates show barge collision in Galveston may have spilled up to 2,000 gallons of oil

House votes to force US delivery of bombs to Israel, rebuking President Biden with bill that is likely doomed in Senate

New federal estimates show Philadelphia remains the nations sixth-most-populous city, despite a decline in population throughout the pandemic

Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff member was killed

Ethiopia lodged a complaint over statements by the U.S. ambassador after he said the release of political prisoners could help the country engage in a productive dialogue and that detaining critics wont resolve the countrys issues

The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy

The bridge connecting Galveston, Texas, to Pelican Island remains closed after a barge crashed into a pillar supporting the span, causing it to partially collapse

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg is sitting for a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report about the agencys toxic workplace culture was released last week

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has evoked language adopted by the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as he supports Donald Trump at his New York hush money trial

The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for announcing an agreement with pro-Palestinian activists to pursue an academic boycott of Israeli institutions and divestment strategies

Attorney General Merrick Garland says releasing audio of a special counsels interview with President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents could jeopardize future sensitive and high-profile investigations

Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the schools president told students to leave the area or face arrest

An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challengesays he died from ingesting a high concentration of a chili pepper extract

Dow Jones Industrial Average crosses 40,000 points for the first time

Medical examiner links spicy tortilla chips to death of Massachusetts teen who took part in social media challenge

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has made a habit of antagonizing Washingtons most powerful leaders in his party

The head of the association representing athletic directors of Football Bowl Subdivision schools is stepping down this fall after more than eight years as president and CEO

Supreme Court upholds consumer protection agency's funding structure, rejecting a conservative attack

Slovak president-elect says he spoke to prime minister who was shot but says his condition remains very serious

South Africa tells UN world court Israel's 'genocide has continued at pace and has reached a new and horrific stage'

UN top court opens 2 days of hearings on Israel's military actions in Rafah

White House blocks release of audio of Bidens special counsel interview, arguing GOP wants it for political reasons

Slovak interior minister says that a lone wolf who did not belong to political groups has been charged in shooting PM

Prosecutors star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump is returning to the witness stand as defense lawyers try to chip away at Michael Cohens crucial testimony implicating the former president

FIFA proposal on racism urges all 211 federations to mandate abuse as a disciplinary offense

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili says controversial foreign influence bill is 'unacceptable'

In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers

Slovakia's president says heads of all political parties will meet to seek 'calm' after shooting of prime minister

Yonhap news agency says Seoul court has ruled in favor of the governments plan to boost medical school admissions

A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs has sparked protests and a strong lobbying campaign against its adoption by Serbias presi...

A judge has decided that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is heading back in the right direction