Iran and the United States are preparing to start in-depth negotiations in Oman over Tehrans rapidly advancing nuclear program, talks that likely will hinge on the Islamic Republics enrichment of uranium

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has overseen the signing by Congo and Rwanda of a pledge to work toward a peace deal that would ease U.S. access to critical minerals in resource-rich eastern Congo

A new tribal national park in North Dakota is opening a little-seen area of the rugged Badlands to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts

The winning numbers in Friday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 38-40-60-62-70, Mega Ball: 9, Megaplier:

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people are expected to gather at the same site to honor and reflect on the historic event

Russian-born scientist Kseniia Petrova has been detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement since February when she failed to declare frog embryo samples at Boston's Logan Airport

Authorities in New Mexico have released more videos related to their investigation into the deaths of 95-year-old Gene Hackman and his wife

Oregon's environmental agency won't say if a group of hackers stole data in a cyberattack that was first announced earlier this month

Officials say bomb threat note found on a plane at a Florida airport prompted the evacuation of the aircraft and a temporary closure

President Donald Trump's administration is providing another example of how it's targeting those the president feels are blocking his agenda

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is asking his partys candidate vying to be Virginias next lieutenant governor to step aside

A Connecticut family got a chance to see a bear have some fun on their backyard playset

California regulators have released a new proposal to allow the testing of self-driving heavy duty trucks on public roads

College journalists across the U.S. are navigating a surge in requests to remove previously published content amid the Trump administrations crackdown on student protesters and what critics describe as unprecedented attacks on campus speech

Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to stage a violent coup in Congo that failed

As President Donald Trump seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, the U.S. immigration detention system is being overrun with prisoners

The last of three friends accused of killing a driver in Colorado by throwing a rock through the windshield of her car has been convicted

A 38-year-old man was stabbed to death in the New York City subway during a rush-hour dispute with another rider who had stepped on the mans shoes

Forecasters are warning of low humidity and gusty wind increased the risk fire could spread across parts of New Jersey, Philadelphia and its suburbs and Delaware as firefighters continued to battled a vast wildfire in the Pine Barrens

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him

Four months after the Los Angeles area wildfires tore through the Angeles National Forest and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses in Altadena, wildlife is returning to the Eaton Fire burn area and scientists are closely tracking them

The Trump administration plans to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation

A former executive at a major Detroit nonprofit has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for the theft of more than $40 million meant to help beautify the citys riverfront

The trial of former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff on bribery, kickback and money laundering charges is underway, with defense attorneys arguing that the pair did nothing illegal

Texas lawmakers have passed a $1 billion education bill that allows families to use public money to pay for private school tuition

April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, but the light rain that fell across New England recently brought dirt from across the country instead

The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 15-44-63-66-69, Powerball: 20

Asian shares are trading mixed, as worries crept back following a Wall Street rally that came after President Donald Trump appeared to back off his criticism of the Federal Reserve and his tough talk in his trade war

An Alabama man is scheduled to be executed Thursday after dropping his appeals and saying he doesnt want to keep wasting everybodys time and money

President Donald Trump will travel to Michigan next week to celebrate his first 100 days in office

The judge overseeing the sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit settlement involving the NCAA and the nations five largest conferences has delayed final approval of the plan until it is modified to address concerns about roster limits

The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won't have to help pay for the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to with residents

The pastor of a Georgia megachurch who led a nationwide 40-day fast against Target stores is now calling for a full Target boycott.

A dozen states sue the Trump administration in U.S. trade court over its tariff policies

California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses on the road

The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled audio recordings from the custody hearing of a 5-year-old New Hampshire girl who was murdered by her father and vanished in 2019 after being placed in his care

Los Angeles authorities have arrested a man suspected of using a chainsaw to cut down several trees along streets across the city

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis is the latest judge at odds with the Trump administration

Surveillance video shows the woman who was able to sneak onto a New York-to-Paris flight without a boarding pass late last year got on the plane by glomming onto a group of passengers as they passed gate agents

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked North Carolina election officials from contacting voters whose disputed ballots in an unresolved 2024 state Supreme Court race could be eliminated from the final count

A woman and her child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from Long Islands Gilgo Beach were identified by police Wednesday, nearly three decades after the double homicide

Survivors and relatives of people killed in a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago are set to speak at the sentencing of the gunman

The U.S. Army has suspended a Wisconsin training base's first female commander after discovering a portrait of President Donald Trump had been flipped to face a wall

School district officials on Floridas Space Coast arent renewing the contract of a teacher who used a students chosen name without getting permission from the students parents in violation of Florida law

The Finger Lakes are home to New Yorks largest wine-producing region, but vineyards there are struggling with the impacts of climate change

A federal judge is scheduled to consider a request to immediately release a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship

An Indian company that spreads crushed rock on farmers fields to draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has won the $50 million grand prize in a global competition funded by Elon Musks foundation

A Texas man is facing execution for the strangling and stabbing death of a young North Texas mother more than 20 years ago

The Trump administration is quietly revoking the temporary legal status of people who entered the country via an online appointment app at U.S. border crossings with Mexico

A wildfire burning in New Jersey has forced thousands of people to evacuate and closed a stretch of a major highway