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The FBI says the man who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others in a mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar in March acted alone and there's no evidence he was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group
A council appointed by President Donald Trump has proposed significant changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency
The United States Postal Service is considering a rule change that would allow anyone to send handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years
Former FBI Director James Comey is seeking to cancel his upcoming court appearance in North Carolina
Man accused of firebombing Colorado demonstrators pleads guilty to murder
A clean energy group says the Pentagon is holding up the development of more than 250 new onshore wind farms on private lands by failing to complete its national security reviews
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln
China is signaling that Taiwan will be a priority ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping next week
Faith leaders in Southern California are uniting after devastating twin wildfires that hit the region in January 2025 causing unprecedented losses
Cruise company says 29 passengers left hantavirus outbreak ship on April 24, after 1st fatality on board
China gives suspended death sentences to 2 former defense ministers who were accused of bribery
President Donald Trump's plan to put a coat of white paint on the granite exterior of a historic building that's part of the White House complex is getting a hearing by a key federal agency
Michigan Republicans once viewed 2026 as their best chance to reclaim power in the battleground state
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting the Vatican to mend ties after President Donald Trumps criticisms of Pope Leo XIV and the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran
A man accused of a firebomb attack on a demonstration in Colorado is set to plead guilty to murder and other charges
Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center are set to appear in federal court in Alabama
The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 18-27-51-65-68, Powerball: 5
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not political actors.
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are poised to vote on a plan to reshape a majority-Black congressional district
Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race
Authorities are searching the home connected to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law
A judge says Alaska wildlife agents can resume shooting and killing bears as part of a plan to help recover a herd of caribou that was once an important source of food for Alaska Native hunters
A runner in a grueling 250-mile ultramarathon on trails across northern Arizona has died after experiencing a medical emergency
Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazils finance minister
Ted Turner was a sportsman and visionary media mogul who transformed the Atlanta Braves into a national sensation
A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for impersonating a student at a New York City high school
The leading candidates for California governor are trying to stand out from the crowded field as mail voting is underway
A jury has begun deliberating in the retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged with murder and reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020
Authorities have served a search warrant at a home connected to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996
In 24 hours, the Trump administrations stance on the Iran war has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding and military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic
U_S_ prosecutors say a plain glass-clad building in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood was a secret Chinese spy outpost, with orders to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents in the U_S_ It had a banner inside that said: Fuzhou Police...
Police say they have arrested an 18-year-old man after a weekend shooting left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded during a party beside an Oklahoma lake
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit against Rankin County deputies over the 2021 death of Damien Cameron
Police say a man accused of shooting five people, killing two, in back-to-back shootings at a shopping center and an apartment building in suburban Dallas has been charged with two counts of capital murder
Police say a teenage boy and a woman are dead after they were fatally shot in a dispute over an informal soccer game in Michigan
The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter
Millions of taxpayers penalized by the IRS during the coronavirus pandemic for late payments or filings may qualify for refunds or penalty terminations
A man accused of firing a gun at law enforcement officers near the Washington Monument this week was walking along the path of Vice President JD Vances motorcade before the shooting
A Florida-based activist who camped out atop one of Washingtons bridges for five days has ended his protest vigil
Lower-income Americans sharply reduced their gas consumption in the month following the Iran war, yet spiking prices still forced them to spend more at the pump, worsening the economys disparities, new research released Wednesday showed
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ May 5 The Washington Post says Congress must act to stop abuse of redistricting Florida was supposed to be the finale of this years race to the bottom on redistricting. Yet a cacophonous encore is now playing across the South after a Supreme Court ruling last week. The GOP started it in Texas last summer. A back-and-forth ensued, with Democrats redrawing maps in California and Virginia while Republicans did so in Missouri, Nort
President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, and it sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administrations highest priority
CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87
With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war
Over 600 military personnel from multiple countries are searching for two U.S. soldiers who went missing in Morocco during U.S.-African military exercises
US military says it fired on Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it tried to breach blockade
The price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. has climbed 31 cents in the past week and is now 52% higher than before the Iran war began
A former FedEx driver has been sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift

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