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A small plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs
The top Democratic senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the Trump administration made a $7.5 million payment to the government of Equatorial Guinea amid an effort deport people to the West African country
U.S. President Donald Trump says that the United States government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group in that country is being violently persecuted
Officials in California say 19 people were taken to the hospital after a bus overturned on a California highway
States are facing uncertainty about providing full monthly benefits for a federal food program serving 42 million Americans
A hearing in set in West Virginia over the deployment of the state National Guard to Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trumps crime-fighting efforts
President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday
Authorities say a 21-year-old man shot and killed three co-workers at a San Antonio, Texas, landscape supply company and then died after shooting himself
State and local official say a flood inside an underground West Virginia coal mine has trapped a miner inside, and rescue crews have been pumping water out to get to him
The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, says the number of victims of a UPS cargo plane crash stands at 14 with nobody believed to be still unaccounted for among the missing
U.S. college students who receive federal food aid are looking to their campuses for support because the program known as SNAP is in limbo during the government shutdown
In a recent interview with the Associated Press, former reporter Harry Atkins recounts his experience covering the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the most infamous in all Great Lakes history, as family members and maritime history followers honor the ...
Tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have spilled into K-12 schools around the U.S., with advocates reporting a rise in antisemitism since the 2023 surprise attack on Israel
The government shutdown has stretched into its 40th day
Federal and state health officials are investigating 13 cases in 10 U.S. states of infant botulism linked to baby formula that is being recalled
Immigration enforcement operations drew residents to protest in the streets.
Massachusetts man claims he lost consciousness during a struggle with immigration agents, however federal authorities accuse him of faking the seizure to prevent his wifes arrest
Zohran Mamdanis winning run for New York City mayor featured a memorable campaign design that drew its inspiration from a wide range of influences, helping the democratic socialist appeal to young and diverse voters
UPS and FedEx has decided to ground their fleets of MD-11 planes out of an abundance of caution after a deadly crash at a UPS global aviation hub in Kentucky
The winning numbers in Friday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 16-21-23-48-70, Mega Ball: 5, Megaplier:
People in some U.S. states have started receiving their November SNAP benefits after delays caused by a legal battle over the government shutdown
Along with stop, drop and roll, some states are teaching students to 'Stop and don't touch that gun.'
Voter anger over rising electricity costs is shaping next year's midterm elections
Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend
Former colleagues are mourning three pilots killed in the UPS cargo plane crash near the Louisville, Kentucky, airport, as relatives of a badly burned man who was pulled from the wreckage confirm hes also among the 14 who died
Investigators say a repeating bell sounded as pilots tried to control a UPS cargo plane upon takeoff before it crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, this week
President Donald Trump is accusing foreign-owned meat packers of driving up the price of beef in the U.S. and is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation
Democrats are riding high after Election Day wins and some are capitalizing on the victory of New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani
A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during home invasion robbery is scheduled to be put to death in December
Volunteers usually gather at Riverside National Cemetery in California on Veterans Day to place flags on graves, but not this year
The Justice Department is scrutinizing a trip that Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser took to Qatar, but the mayor is not a target of the investigation, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, The probe into a trip Bowser took w...
President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to a former New York police sergeant who was convicted of helping China try to scare an ex-official into going back to his homeland
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says he plans to seek a third term in 2026
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administrations interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school
Massachusetts state police came to the rescue when a dog wandered into a tunnel in Boston and narrowly escaped being hit by traffic
Authorities have charged two more young men in a sprawling federal investigation of an alleged terrorism-style attack planned for suburban Detroit
A woman walking her dogs on a beach near Portland, Oregon, found a small shark struggling in a tidepool
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced another deadly U.S. strike on a boat he said was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea
A high-ranking official in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who oversaw its finances and a global temple building boom has been chosen as the faiths new apostle
Crews are working to repair remote Alaska Native villages that were devastated by the remnants of a typhoon last month
The Federal Aviation Administration's order to scale back flights nationwide because of the government shutdown starts Friday
Chinese state media reports new aircraft carrier has been commissioned as Beijing seeks to extend power far overseas
A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices closed-door conference
An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an extraordinary relationship the two had despite the demands the new president had undertaken
American shoppers are expected to spend more during the holiday shopping season this year, compared with a year ago, despite shoppers downbeat attitude amid all the economic uncertainty and rising prices from President Donald Trumps tariffs
An immigrant who was arrested after a Milwaukee judge allegedly helped him dodge federal agents has been sentenced to time served for illegally reentering the United States
Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are trying to stop his execution later this month
The gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything slime was enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with perennial bestselling games Battleship and Trivial Pursuit
The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 09-17-29-61-66, Powerball: 26
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools where generations of Native American children were isolated from their families

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