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The Oregon man who fatally shot a teenage gunman to end a rampage at an elementary school says he was the children's last line of defense.

Severe flooding in the Four Corners region has led to water rescues and impassable roads

Officials in northeast Ohio said a chemical tank leak earlier in the week was caused by an employee error

Jordanian government spokesperson says 6 killed, 28 wounded in church shooting in Karak

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit trying to stop the Trump administration from building a triumphal arch along the Potomac River are asking a federal judge to halt all construction plans, one day after the National Park Service signaled it would begin work Novem...

President Donald Trump says he has heard about the Department of Justice investigating Corey Lewandowski

State officials say in court filings that the federal government has stopped sharing evidence with Minnesota authorities who are investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers

Recent efforts to throttle Ukraines access to satellite systems have created a blame game of sorts among Trump administration officials and their allies

The U.S. Treasury Department has proposed a rule to crack down on American high-tech investments in China, Russia, North Korea and other countries of concern

A leading advocate for the Make America Healthy Again movement has resigned as a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Calley Means says he leaves with respect for President Donald Trump and Kennedy

A court document says Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pikes arms before her attempted execution

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a new directive telling troops they cannot use nonpublic information to make bets on prediction markets

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration remains full-bore ahead with a sweeping reorganization of the Forest Service after a judge blocked the changes last week

Investigators in Florida say a police officer who found a man dead during a welfare check in 2022 is accused of taking possession of the mans home and impersonating him for years while fixing up the place

A Brooklyn jury is deliberating the fate of a New York woman who says she was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria and never underwent the weapons training with the Islamic State group that she has been criminally charged with

Two people were killed when a fire tore through a Mississippi senior living center that was home to more than 100 residents, Clinton Mayor Will Purdie said Thursday

U.S. unemployment claims fell to 194,000 last week, the fewest in three months and another sign that layoffs remain low and most Americans enjoy extraordinary job security

A possible tornado has caused significant damage in a central Arizona community, with trees falling onto homes and utility poles knocked down

The horse-drawn carriages that have cruised through Central Park for more than 150 years are set to be banished soon from New York City, winding down a tradition beloved by tourists but long opposed by animal welfare activists

Closing arguments are expected Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will move out of her Washington, D.C., home that federal agents searched last week

The National Weather Service has issued multiple warnings across parts of Arizona

A fire broke out at a senior living facility in Mississippi on Wednesday evening, forcing residents to evacuate

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that U.S. President Donald Trumps tariffs have raised costs for American families and upended decades of trade as he unveiled a $6.2 billion plan to protect Canadas manufacturing heartland

The looksmaxxing livestreamer known as Clavicular is set to be arraigned in Massachusetts on charges that he raped a 17-year-old girl at his familys Cape Cod home

A teacher wounded in last weeks attack on a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school says she never had a chance to try to shelter any of the children inside

An Idaho prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against a woman charged with murder in the deaths of her twin toddlers last year

Federal prosecutors announced they have broken up a fraudulent marriage ring in Massachusetts that conducted dozens of bogus ceremonies with immigrants over the past decade and netted participant millions of dollars

The Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration appeal seeking to immediately enforce medical care restrictions for transgender people in prison

A chemical tank exploded in Toledo, Ohio, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate or shelter in place due to fears of a toxic release

Conservatives are banding together to grow classical Christian schools by leveraging new taxpayer-funded scholarships

Kyle Francis Kennedy, the granddaughter of Sen. Robert F

Federal prosecutors say a Guatemalan man who was extradited to the U.S. to face charges related to a smuggling attempt that left 53 migrants dead was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday

Justice Elena Kagan says decisions by her conservative Supreme Court colleagues have increased political polarization and weakened democracy in the U.S. She spoke Tuesday, two weeks before the midterm elections, criticizing rulings that weakened the Vo...

The FBI is investigating reports of an incendiary device being thrown at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in downtown Atlanta

California state workers will launch a one-day strike Wednesday, urging Gov. Gavin Newsoms administration to agree to a new contract that increases workers pay, ensures affordable healthcare access and allows more flexibility for remote work

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Toforest Johnson to life in prison without parole

A New Jersey food importer filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Donald Trumps power to invoke a Depression-era law to levy a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods

Polymarket has removed a contract from its prediction market platform that allowed users to wager on whether any of the seven men accused of raping a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime

A battery system that stores excess energy when its plentiful will power an apartment building in Buffalo, New York, when the grid is strained and electricity is costly

The relationship between the United States and Ukraine is careening toward a possible breaking point

Florida is set to carry out its 18th execution this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis aggressive use of the death penalty

The parents of one of three children killed in last weeks shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, have hired attorneys to investigate the schools protocols and how the teenage gunman got his weapon

A federal judge has ruled that a teen accused of planning a terror attack on the Mall of America in Minnesota will remain in custody

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about race in middle school admissions

Mississippis attorney general says a Senatobia police officer was justified in using force during a June shoplifting call that ended in the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley

A federal appeals court has paused a court-ordered takeover of healthcare operations in Arizonas prisons

Prosecutors say a visitor from Canada maliciously harmed a flamingo at an iconic Las Vegas hotel when he removed the bird from its enclosure earlier this year and brought it to his room

Former Cuban President Ral Castro is facing more charges in Florida related to the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles after the U.S. government indicted the former leader earlier this year

Members of the University of Michigan mens and womens cross country teams regularly run past the schools prized peony garden as part of their training