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The Pentagon says people with congestive heart failure, undergoing treatment for schizophrenia or who have a history of paraphilic disorders will no longer be eligible for a medical waiver to serve in the military
Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. are no longer protected from deportation after a federal appeals court refused to postpone the Trump administrations decision to end their legal status
New York will soon make phone calls free in its state prisons
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis administration has already signed at least $245 million in state contracts to set up and run the new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades
A Tennessee judge has set a February trial date for a man who faces the death penalty if convicted on charges of killing three people and wounding three others in a daylong series of shootings in Memphis that was livestreamed on social media
A court filing shows Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan was questioned under oath after the release of a new documentary about the sexual abuse of Ohio State University athletes decades ago by a team doctor
Wall Street dipped to small losses in premarket trading, but indexes remained near record highs on another big day for corporate earnings reports
Two weeks after deadly floods swept through Texas, officials dropped the number of still-missing people in the hardest-hit area to three down from nearly 160 in the days following the July Fourth weekend floods
San Francisco is set to ban homeless people from living in RVs with a new citywide parking limit of two hours on large vehicles
Park officials say a mountain lion bit a 4-year-old who was walking with their family over the weekend on a popular trail in Olympic National Park
Federal records related to the investigation into the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released
President Donald Trump plans to host Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House
A 21-year-old man has been charged with setting fire to 11 New York City police vehicles in Brooklyn during a time of nationwide protests in June
A county coroner in Alabama is ruling the death of a man who died in an encounter with police as a homicide
Minnesota state senator Nicole Mitchell's lawyer says that she will resign after she was convicted of burglary
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service says it's investigating a fiery car crash at a San Jose, California, post office over the weekend as an intentional act
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting of an off-duty customs officer at a park in Manhattan over the weekend
New York Citys former interim police commissioner has filed a $10 million defamation claim against Mayor Eric Adams for questioning his mental fitness for the job
An Arkansas man has pleaded guilty in the mass shooting at a grocery store that killed four people and injured nearly a dozen others
A Canadian man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead after he reported that she was abducted while they were vacationing in upstate New York has been charged with murder
U.S. stocks are rising toward more records ahead of a week full of profit updates from big U.S. companies
A new welcome center at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine tells the story of the land from the perspective of its original inhabitants the Native Americans who comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy
Families of missing loved ones face a unique and agonizing grief called ambiguous loss
Officials say a man suspected of driving his car into a crowd on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, injuring 36 people, has a criminal history that includes a conviction for felony battery
A car crashed into a post office in San Jose, building catches fire.
Authorities say one person is dead two missing after a group of people went over an Oregon waterfall
A diverse group of volunteers from faith leaders to grandmothers to retired lawyers have been escorting people to immigration courts across the country
Republicans are encountering some early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the partys majority next year
The National Comedy Center has begun hosting regular Memory Cafes, inviting people with conditions like dementia and Alzheimer's through the western New York museum to share laughs and connection
A man who abducted a woman from a Florida insurance office and killed her is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis
Officials in a Texas hill country community pummeled by deadly flooding on July 4 say just three people remain missing, down from nearly 100
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has toured the destruction left by a wildfire along the Grand Canyons North Rim
Napheesa Collier leads her team in 151-131 win over Team Clark in the WNBA All-Star Game
The Trump administration has imposed new restrictions on flights from Mexico and threatened to end a longstanding partnership between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico
Cleanup crews are working to contain petroleum that leaked from a tanker truck that crashed and flipped upside down on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, spilling fuel into a tributary of a river that was recently restored for salmon runs
A large chain necklace pulled him into an MRI after he wandered into the room.
Florida Democratic lawmaker Joe Casello has died while in office following a heart attack
Parents at a preschool in Oregon are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school
Moving at the speed of Trump is one of the White Houses favorite phrases, but when it comes to presidential travel, Donald Trumps pace is about the same as that of his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden
The winning numbers in Friday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 11-43-54-55-63, Mega Ball: 3, Megaplier:
A tanker truck has crashed into a creek on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, spilling fuel into a tributary of a river where salmon runs were recently restored after a decades-long fight to remove its dams
The search for victims of deadly flooding in Texas Hill Country is headed into its third week as officials try to pin down exactly how many people remain missing
Authorities are investigating a Southern California couple after their infant child was taken to a hospital with a traumatic head injury and 21 children were discovered in their custody
Andry Hernndez Romero, a makeup artist from Venezuela who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration and held in a notorious mega-prison, was among the scores of migrants sent back to Venezuela in a three-nation exchange Friday
A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists at Grand Central Terminal has been sentenced to over 26 years in prison
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees
The state of New York has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit from an ex-aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo who alleged Cuomo sexually harassed and groped her while he was in office
Venezuela has released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administrations immigration crackdown
A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty is arguing that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting
The former chief executive of clothing technology companies was released on $1 million bail after pleading not guilty to charges alleging that she bilked investors of over $300 million since early 2019