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The matriarch of a South Florida family who was convicted in the hired killing of her former son-in-law is asking a judge for a new trial
The Atlantic Ocean has claimed another beach house on the fragile Outer Banks
An immigration crackdown in Washington has taken a toll on children attending the district's schools
Los Angeles police officers fired over a thousand projectiles at Trump administration protesters on a single day in June
A Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wifes sister and parents and then setting their house on fire is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday evening
Court documents reveal that as authorities worked feverishly to find the person who assassinated Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, the 22-year-old man now charged with the crime was texting with his partner and acknowledging he was the shooter
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A Southern California judge convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting his wife after the couple had been arguing is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday
Mike Waltz almost certainly will not make his debut as President Donald Trumps U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during a gathering of world leaders next week
Two brothers have pleaded guilty to charges related to the killing of a North Carolina sheriff's deputy in 2022
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service
A wild burro dubbed Cupid is recovering from surgery after being shot with an arrow in what officials say is the latest in a series of a half-dozen attacks since June on donkeys that roam semirural areas of inland Southern California
Federal prosecutors say an Indiana man has been charged with making a threat across state lines related to a lockdown and shooting at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland last week
Police are investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi
New Hampshire's Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of Michael Addison, the state's only inmate on death row
A judge in South Carolina has ruled a death row inmate who thinks most laws are unconstitutional is mentally competent and can be executed
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine is planning to force two Senate votes on President Donald Trumps tariffs in the coming weeks, keeping the pressure on his Republican colleagues as many of them have voiced frustration with the policies
A U.S. judge says she is powerless to stop the return of men in Ghanas custody to countries where U.S. immigration judges determined they faced torture or persecution
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel
President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists
As Congress nears sending the U.S. into a government shutdown, Michigan faces its own
A man detained by authorities days after he nearly died in an Iowa shooting is one of a growing number of crime victims who have been targeted in the Trump administrations crackdown on illegal immigration
A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district
Two boys allegedly caused $50,000 worth of vandalism damage.
Suspect has been held on bail totaling more than $2 million.
Searchers have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank during a Lake Michigan storm almost 140 years ago
U.S. presidents and first ladies have had their share of awkward moments with the British royal family over the years
Global shares are trading mixed as markets look ahead to a possible U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut later this week
Youth in Lahaina, Hawaii, have been struggling since wildfires destroyed their hometown two years ago
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is expanding at a critical moment in the United States
It was found under a vehicle parked near an occupied building.
The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting in a Catholic church in Minneapolis has remembered her as a sharp, curious and funny child who didnt water herself down.
Given just how much President Donald Trump talks in public, it can be hard to keep up with all of his promises even his most outlandish ones
Each year during Hispanic Heritage Month, huge celebrations can be expected across the U
From the moment conservative icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassins bullet, partisans have fought over whos to blame for his death
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Authorities are trying to find out more about the motivations behind the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a college in Utah after the suspect's family helped authorities take him into custody
Thousands of students who planned to attend U.S. universities this fall are among those impacted by President Donald Trump's travel ban on 19 countries
President Donald Trump says he believes the Russian-Ukraine war would end if all NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petroleum
FBI Director Kash Patel is bracing for scrutiny over his leadership of the Charlie Kirk investigation and other areas when he appears before Congress this coming week for oversight hearings
A University of Pennsylvania researcher is leading an effort to connect photos taken of the Yazidi population in northern Iraq in the 1930s with descendants who lost much of their history in the 2014 Islamic State attacks
After Koreans detained in a historic raid on a Georgia Hyundai plant were sent home, lawyers and social workers say the nearly 200 non-Korean workers ensnared in the crackdown remain in legal limbo
The California Legislature plans to vote Saturday on whether to extend the state's cap-and-trade program
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Around 50 college campuses across the country have been deluged in recent weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, laying bare the challenges of detecting fake threats quickly to prevent mass panic
The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University sent shockwaves through classrooms worldwide
Workers at a Montana animal shelter were evacuated and sent to the hospital after smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine incinerated by FBI agents started to fill the building
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed doing away with a program that has required large, mostly industrial polluters to report their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to the government
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook referred to a condominium she purchased in June 2021 as a vacation home in a loan estimate
A Rhode Island judge has temporarily stopped the Trump administration from changing the criteria for using tens of millions of dollars in funding to aid homeless people