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Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the citys far South Side, the federal government is committing to the massive project just before President Joe Biden leaves office

New Yorks governor has ordered more than a dozen state prison staffers fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month

Authorities in Texas say a fleeing motorist has driven a pickup into a busy JCPenney store and injured five people before he was fatally shot by law enforcement

Northern California authorities say a man has been arrested on suspicion of beheading his 1-year-old son

The 14-year old student killed at a Wisconsin Christian school this week is remembered as a talented teenager who shared her gifts of music and art with many

Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid to address extensive damage caused by hurricane and other disasters

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found

Government funding bill clears the Senate and heads to President Biden for his signature, averting shutdown

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Farmers in Georgia are still reeling more than two months after Hurricane Helene blew away cotton, destroyed ripened squash and cucumbers and uprooted pecan trees and timber

Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by a tuckered herd of flying reindeer

For Christians around the world, Christmas is the joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus

Police say 11 people, including some members of a Venezuelan gang, are facing potential criminal charges in connection with the violent abduction and beating of a couple at an apartment complex in a Denver suburb

Blaring trumpets and joyful voices resounded in a New Orleans neighborhood earlier this week as about 100 people marched in honor of John Prince Gilbert, a founding member of an innovative brass band, who died last weekend

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trumps demands for a debt lim...

Approaching a midnight deadline, the Senate is preparing to give final approval to a new plan to prevent a government shutdown

Commercial air tours will soon be prohibited over Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona under a plan approved this week by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service

Western New Mexico University's president has agreed to resign

A sheriff in rural, coastal Oregon says he's concerned about letters asking residents to collect information on immigrants

The reopening of a section of Interstate 40 in western North Carolina that collapsed during Hurricane Helene has been delayed after more asphalt from eastbound lanes fell this week

The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza

A new report by a congressional subcommittee accused former top Coast Guard officials of hiding a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the services academy in Connecticut from both Congress and the public

Missouris governor has commuted the sentence of a white Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man

Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited obstructing entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after anti-abortion activists sued to challenge it on free-speech grounds

Authorities say a teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed when one car accelerated into another in a parking lot and both vehicles crashed through a fence into a play area

Three Black men who were lynched by mobs in Virginia during the 1800s and early 1900s have been declared innocent by a judge

The director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources has determined that it's necessary to regulate the use of groundwater in the states rural southeast

Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee says he is pardoning 43 people who have served out their sentences in what he says is very different than President Joe Bidens recent wave of commutations

A Department of Homeland Security agent who the FBI says conspired with another agent to sell an illicit drug known as bath salts has pleaded not guilty to a drug distribution conspiracy charge

Huge gates at the mouths of three inlets and barriers across bays are no longer part of a plan to protect New Jerseys back bays from the type of catastrophic flooding they endured during Superstorm Sandy

California regulators have approved a controversial proposal to delay the closure of the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Facility, the site of the nations largest known methane leak, which forced thousands of families from their Los Angeles homes in 2015

An Iranian officer blamed for the 2022 killing of an American in Iraq has been charged in New York with federal murder and terrorism crimes

The militarys tradition of tracking Santa Claus will carry on even if the U.S. government shuts down

The military has ordered new safety guidelines for a key part in all Osprey aircraft after a recent accident revealed the same problem that had caused a fatal crash in Japan last year

Some U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated

Wall Street was poised to open with significant losses on Friday as the possibility of government shutdown right before Christmas came closer to reality after the House resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trumps new plan to fund operations an...

Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold talks with the country's new leadership and seek information on the whereabouts of missing American journalist Austin Tice

An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike will face up to 130 years in prison when a judge sentences him Friday

Texas attorney general is again trying to block a man on death row from giving testimony at the state Capitol

Activists have sued the federal government to release images of dead orca whales and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast

A Maricopa County judge's decision has invalidated a provision of Arizonas elections manual that said the secretary of state must canvass election results even if a county has not certified its ballots

Authorities say a 24-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting three people in central Illinois has been killed after firing shots at police in suburban Chicago

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavys wish list for the incoming Trump administration includes oil and gas exploration in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reversing restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest that provides...

A judge has refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a food company has chosen the Bluegrass State for a facility that will employ more than 900 people

Kentucky's attorney general says the state is under no legal requirement to use taxpayer money to cover the costs of gender-affirming surgeries for people incarcerated in state prisons

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported more than 270,000 people to 192 countries over a recent 12-month period, the highest annual tally in a decade