After a wildfire decimated a California high schools newsroom, one of the first offers of help that its journalism adviser received came from the other side of the country

A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat in Lake Michigan

The fastest-growing city in the U.S. last year was a Dallas suburb that saw its population jump by nearly a third

The board that oversees Californias toxic substances agency unanimously voted Thursday to remove a controversial proposal that would have weakened a state hazardous waste disposal rule

The Department of Homeland Security has asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration roundups across the country, and the Pentagon is reviewing the unusual request, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administrations appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th century wartime law

Officials say a Florida airport was closed after a vehicle caught fire in a parking garage

A truck driver who triggered a deadly chain-reaction crash with a charter bus carrying Ohio high school band students was convicted of vehicular homicide but cleared on more serious charges

The Army will place large metal plating at key points on Washington's streets

The board of Floridas only public historically Black university has chosen a lobbyist with ties to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the schools next president, alarming students, faculty and alumni who are outraged by the governors efforts to rest...

A humanities federation and a state council have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to reverse local funding cuts made by Trump adviser Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency and the National Endowment for the Humanities

Storms accompanied by deep, booming thunder, lightning displays and powerful winds swept through parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, northern Indiana and Michigan overnight leaving scores of trees down and thousands of homes without power

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13

Authorities say a fire has destroyed a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation

Iowa can continue to restrict instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools up through the sixth grade

U.S. stocks are drifting as Wall Street heads toward the finish of a strong, potentially perfect week

A federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege in the court case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Human rights received far less mention on President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East this week than is usual for presidential visits to autocratic countries

The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that numerous constitutional violations during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent decades on death row merit a new trial

Authorities say former major league shortstop Rafael Furcal is facing felony charges in South Florida

A drunken driver who crashed her SUV into a birthday party at a Michigan boat club has been sentenced to at least 25 years in prison

A judge has rescinded an order that would have required the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States

Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after authorities say they landed a Black Hawk helicopter in a mountain pasture on a private ranch to take elk antlers before flying away

Challengers tell a federal appeals court that Georgia lawmakers havent done enough to end illegal harms to Black voters

Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature have announced a hard-fought budget deal

A Florida appeals court has ruled that a state law that allows minors to get an abortion without their parents consent is unconstitutional

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Police in central Georgia have charged a man with murder in the killings of three adults and a 2-year-old child found dead in a mobile home last month

New York's recently approved budget makes clear that paper routes are not allowed for anyone under 14 years old

Not long before the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to allow President Donald Trumps restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect, he falsely claimed on Truth Social that the United States is the only country that offers such a right

Republicans continue to make progress on President Donald Trumps big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security, though considerable divisions remain as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to bridge the differences in his conference

The head of the U.S. Space Force is moving ahead with plans to pull talent from National Guard units to help build up the still new military service but several governors remain opposed and argue it tramples on their rights to retain control over the...

Harvey Weinsteins assistants kept a list of female friends of Harvey to invite to events and sometimes considered them a special category for guest lists

A grand jury has indicted a Florida State University student on murder charges for the killings of two people and the wounding of six others in a mass shooting on campus last month

New York University said it would withhold the diploma of a student who used a graduation speech to condemn Israels attacks on Palestinians

Air traffic controllers in Denver had to scramble to use backup frequencies after their main communications lines went down for 90 seconds earlier this week in the latest Federal Aviation Administration equipment failure

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure that prohibits local governments from adding fluoride to water systems

A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant

A rock climber who drove for help after surviving a long fall that killed his three companions told a 911 dispatcher he could hardly breathe.

New Jersey Transit is urging riders to reach their destinations or risk being stranded

Police say four people were killed when a van crossed over a highway median north of New York City and crashed into an oncoming car

As the Trump administration resumes collections on defaulted student loans, hundreds of thousands of older Americans with decades-old debts are now at risk of having their Social Security checks garnished

The R&B singer Cassie is beiong cross-examined Thursday after two days of testimony recounting tumultuous details of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean Diddy Combs

The Supreme Court is hearing its first set of Trump-related arguments in the second Trump presidency

Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan pleads not guilty to helping a man evade federal immigration agents

Before America First became the Trump administrations mandate for foreign policy and trade, one sector was already working to bring business back to the United States: the semiconductor industry

A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the 1990s is facing execution for a murder

The new U.S. ambassador to China, former senator and business executive David Perdue, has arrived in Beijing just days after China and the U.S. agreed to a temporary break in their damaging tariff war

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in its first case stemming from the flurry of actions marking the start of President Donald Trumps second term

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30