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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson who combines the classical and the modern wins Nobel Prize in Literature

After Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived an execution attempt it's unclear whether the state will try again

The wife of former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro was set to be back in court Thursday, where her lawyers will urge a judge to free her from jail and put her under house arrest because she has heart problems

Isaias has strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season

President Donald Trump fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton as a series of protests disrupted his rally in San Antonio

President Donald Trump says he wants to turn part of his private West Palm Beach golf club into a retreat for future presidents and their guests, similar to Camp David near Washington

President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast

The governor of Okinawa has demanded the central government do more to ensure discipline among U.S. troops on the southern Japanese island

A federal appeals court has ruled that an Atlanta family cannot take the federal government to trial for a mistaken FBI raid on their home in 2017

This weeks announcements setting an execution by firing squad for the former U.S. Army officer convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting have raised concerns about whether the military followed its own rules

An area of distinctive rock spires in southeastern Arizona is poised to become the nations newest national park

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level award during a visit to the aircraft carrier

A federal appeals court has vacated kidnapping convictions in a case involving the death of a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia in 2017 and later turned up dead at a squalid compound in New Mexico

Opal Lee celebrated her 100th birthday by kicking off the start of construction of a museum in her Texas hometown dedicated to telling the history of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Lee became known as the grandmot...

The trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago is finally getting underway

Nearly a month after President Donald Trump signed a sweeping Russian sanctions bill named after Lindsey Graham, bipartisan leadership in the Senate is urging the administration to act to help Ukraine

Government officials in the United States can declare a state of emergency before severe weather events like hurricanes or floods strike an area

The University of Arizona has suspended activities at its fraternities following persistent reports of misconduct, including assault, hazing and drug and alcohol-related behavior

A Texas man is set to be executed for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in 2000 during a robbery

Tropical Storm Isaias has formed off eastern Mexico

Continuity will be the immediate emphasis for Skydance, the new entertainment giant created by Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros

Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros

Rescue kittens with names like Turkey Leg and Mouth Trap got to explore the aquarium at the Mall of America in Minnesota, watching in awe as fish soared by just out of reach

Federal authorities have arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state in connection with a February school shooting in British Columbia

A California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into a surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children ranging in age from a few months to 13 years

Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation

The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting and feared additional exposures

Lawyers for a former Olympian whom the Justice Department charged with intentionally damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, only to abruptly drop the case after determining that he was not responsible, are urging two different government watchd...

Most families of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the deadliest attack of the Iran war aren't attending a White House reception for Gold Star families

Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints

Kenyan authorities on Tuesday confirmed the countrys first imported Ebola case from Congo

Jim Bakker, who along with his first-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs joined Taiwanese leaders at the opening of an office in Phoenix to aid Taiwanese businesses and citizens in the region

An American citizen shot by a federal agent one year ago during an immigration crackdown in Chicago has filed suit against the federal government, alleging the agent lied about the shooting and had fired into her vehicle from behind

President Donald Trump is criticizing election officials in Arizonas Maricopa County after about 3,000 ballots were mistakenly mailed early to voters

Canadian Press projects election victory for a Quebec separatist party that promises another independence referendum

The FBI has arrested a California real estate agent at Los Angeles International Airport as she was leaving the country and accused her of spying on the Taiwan presidents family for China

Cornells main administration building has been splashed with graffiti and a glass door was broken

The Supreme Court is rejecting an appeal from a Michigan woman challenging a school districts ban on shirts with the phrase Lets Go Brandon.

The Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with significant cases on climate change, religious rights, and immigration

President Donald Trump is campaigning in Nebraska on Monday alongside GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts

The U.S. military says it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people

The Trump administration has proposed changes to Head Start regulations that would remove rules against suspending and expelling preschoolers

A Lao man deported by the United States to Eswatini under the Trump administrations immigration crackdown has been released after more than a year in prison

A search has been suspended off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says his party is on track to win back control of the House

It's now Typhoon Nolo in the Pacific Ocean after the powerful storm crossed the international dateline

The U.S.-run military air base in England was used to strike Iran.

US Air Force removes all bombers from British air base targeted by a suspected terror attack, brings them back to the US

Police did not specify how many of the 35 injured had been shot.