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Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city's police chief, Pamela Smith, is stepping down

Iranian officials say a second flight carrying deported Iranians has left the United States

The U.N.s humanitarian aid coordinator is downsizing its appeal for annual funding in 2026 after support this year mostly from Western governments plunged to the lowest level in a decade

Indiana state senators are gathering in Indianapolis to finally weigh in on mid-cycle redistricting

Sylvester Stallone, Kiss, and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated at the annual Kennedy Center Honors

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military bases waterfront

The winning numbers in Saturday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 13-14-26-28-44, Powerball: 7

The San Diego city attorneys office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing case in U.S. history

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Courts conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency

The winning numbers in Friday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 34-38-42-44-69, Mega Ball: 8, Megaplier:

For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to three more months in prison for violating his supervised release terms in a New York gang case

A New York City high school senior has been jailed on a federal arson charge days after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger

Officials in Louisiana say two inmates accused of violent crimes are on the run after escaping from jail by removing pieces of a wall and using sheets to scale a wall

The Social Security Administration plans to cut foot traffic to its field offices by 50% next year

The nations freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday

Melania Trump has continued a decades-old first lady tradition of visiting with hospitalized children for the holidays

The FBI is investigating the death of an 18-year-old woman on a Carnival cruise ship

Two New York City police officers won't be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old during a mental crisis last year

A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely rescue off the San Diego coast

Federal border agents have descended on a Hispanic enclave just outside New Orleans and local business owners are suffering

The Trump administration will start sending more water to California farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley

Researchers have confirmed a new jaguar in southern Arizona, marking what they say is the fifth big cat over the last 15 years to be spotted in there after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore

The Trump administration has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to prioritize visa applications from foreigners wishing to visit the United States to either invest in America or attend the 2026 World Cup, 2028 Olympics and other ...

The White House is preparing to submit plans for a new ballroom to a planning commission later this month

Florida is poised to join the wave of states debating how they might reshape congressional voting districts, as political parties grapple for an edge in next years midterm elections

The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 01-14-20-46-51, Powerball: 26

An upstate New York jury has convicted a man who wore a clown mask and brandished a chain saw during a menacing, daytime walk through a neighborhood

A former missionary with an Ohio-based ministry has been indicted on federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with four different minors in Haiti over multiple years

Military officials say a fighter jet with the Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration squadron has crashed in the Southern California desert

The United States has inaugurated a massive new consulate compound in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraqs Kurdish region

One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwells most vocal accusers is urging judges to grant the Justice Departments request unseal to records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying that only transparency is likely to lead to justice.

Americans gave $4 billion to nonprofits on GivingTuesday in 2025, an increase from the $3.6 billion they gave in 2024

A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a scathing denunciation of an FDA memo to staff that made sweeping claims casting doubt on vaccine safety

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classic songs, including (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay and In the Midnight Hour, during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died

Attorney General Tim Griffin has asked a judge to send Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home operator pardoned by President Trump, to an Arkansas prison for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion

Prosecutors say a safety volunteer accused of fatally shooting a man participating in a No Kings protest in Salt Lake City in June has been charged with manslaughter

Georgia prison officials have scheduled an execution for Stacey Humphreys, who was convicted of killing two real estate agents in 2003

President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age policies that preceded the implementation of a modern federal income tax

Overnight accommodations at the Grand Canyon's South Rim won't be available starting Saturday

President Donald Trump's administration says it will withhold money to help manage SNAP food aid from states that don't give the federal government information on individual recipients

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith for a closed-door interview later this month even though he had earlier volunteered to appear for an open hearing about his prosecutions of...

The Food and Drug Administration says that there is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of potential metal fragment contamination

A lawyer who filed two wrongful death lawsuits over the fiery UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky says the company put profits over safety by continuing to fly older planes

Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman is back before the Senate after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald Trump for NASA's top job

Authorities say they've captured a Georgia inmate who escaped from an Atlanta hospital

The Department of Homeland Security has launched an immigration crackdown in New Orleans, saying the operation targets violent criminals

Officials say they are searching for a Georgia inmate who escaped from a hospital and is considered armed and dangerous

The winning numbers in Tuesday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 17-25-26-53-60, Mega Ball: 16, Megaplier: