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A Utah judge has ruled that a convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed
A federal judge has signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month
Federal immigration authorities say they arrested 44 people Friday across Los Angeles
Authorities have closed a wide swath of popular campgrounds and backpacking areas along the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington as they search for a former Army soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters
A state court jury has convicted a Minneapolis-area man of third-degree murder and vehicular homicide over the deaths of five young women in a crash in June 2023
A retired police officer was sentenced on Friday to serve 18 months behind bars for lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the Proud Boys extremist groups former top leader, who was under investigation for burning a Black Lives...
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Four years ago, Andrew Cuomo stepped down as New Yorks governor amid a barrage of sexual harassment allegations and a chorus of other Democrats demanding his resignation
The State Department has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates not to revoke visas previously issued to people from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries now under President Donald Trumps new travel ban, which goes into effect next week
When he first ran for office, Donald Trump seemed like he could be a new kind of Republican when it came to LGBTQ+ rights
Senate Republicans have made changes to their partys sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence
A man who investigators say was driven by a desire to kill all Zionist people when he threw Molotov cocktails at demonstrators in Colorado raising awareness of Israeli hostages is set to make his first federal court appearance
Officials in the nations capital generally express full confidence in their ability to handle large, complicated events and huge crowds
As transgender service members face a deadline to leave the U.S. military, hundreds are taking the financial bonus to depart voluntarily
A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1_6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make batteries for electric BMWs, citing policy and market uncertainty.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of President Donald Trumps plan to dismantle the agency
The Trump administration says migrants placed on a deportation flight originally bound for South Sudan are now being held in a converted shipping container on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, where the men and their guards are contending with baking hot ...
New York state lawmakers have passed a bill to preserve media access to police radio feeds as more and more law enforcement agencies encrypt their communications
Many LGBTQ+ travelers have expressed concerns about or decided to skip the World Pride gathering going on in Washington due to anxieties about safety, border policies and a hostile political climate
Authorities are investigating an Instagram photo showing a man who identifies himself as Antoine Massey, a fugitive still at large after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans jail
Jurors will resume deliberating in Harvey Weinsteins New York sex crimes retrial after the ending their first day without reaching a verdict
Mountaineering rangers in Alaska have recovered the body of a Seattle man who died after falling 3,000 feet from a climbing route on Mount McKinley
A Hawaii-based U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing his wife and her unborn child last summer
A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaskas Aleutian island chain
Vandals in Miami defaced a mural of baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Minnie Mioso with racist graffiti earlier this week
The Trump administration has accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission of violating federal law by failing to provide a state-based complaint process for voters bringing allegations against the commission itself
A boat captain convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks from a fishermans longline off Florida says he felt like he was living in an alternate universe for the past five years
Zohran Mamdani has buzz and some momentum in New York Citys mayoral race
The sheriff of a central Florida county was arrested on charges of racketeering and conspiracy as part of what state authorities described as a probe into a massive gambling operation
President Donald Trump is tapping an Air Force fighter pilot with extensive experience as a commander in the Middle East to be the next head of U.S. European Command
A federal judge has issued a temporary block on the Trump administrations cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states that sued in April
Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to Californias Yurok Tribe have been returned to them
Attorneys for a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico say he has landed in California
The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because its not linked to the release of hostages
Trump announces full travel ban on people from 12 countries, partial restriction on 7 countries to go into effect Monday
A federal judge has mostly denied requests by grassroots campaigners to block portions of a new Florida law that restricts the states citizen-driven process to get constitutional amendments on the ballot
The House Oversight Committee is requesting interviews with members of former President Joe Bidens innermost circle
A federal judge says the Trump administration must give migrants sent to an El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their removals
Officials say two people died after a giant crane collapsed at the construction site for a new central Florida hospital
The Trump administration is signaling it intends to cut off federal funding for a long-delayed California high-speed rail project plagued by multibillion-dollar cost overruns
A lawyer for one of the victims of a party boat shooting over Memorial Day weekend in South Carolina says no one was checking IDs or for weapons
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBIs surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. files that the civil rights leaders relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives
Jurors in Harvey Weinsteins sex crimes retrial are due to start deliberating Thursday
North Carolina local law enforcement are frustrated that a man charged in connection with last weekends shooting around a house party that left one person dead and 11 others injured had been out of jail for unrelated charges
A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials
President Donald Trump is nominating Vice Adm. Brad Cooper to take over as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East
A Wisconsin inmate accused of killing his cellmate for being Black and gay has been convicted
A man falsely accused of threatening President Donald Trumps life faces deportation even as Wisconsin authorities say the Mexican immigrant was framed and is a victim of a violent 2023 attack
A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of several court documents in the lawsuit over Kilmar Abrego Garcias deportation
A bill to reduce how much Pennsylvania school districts have to pay for cyber charter students is advancing in the state Legislature