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A man accused of brandishing a rifle at a No Kings rally in Utah prompting an armed safety volunteer to open fire and accidentally kill a protester has been released from jail while the investigation continues
A New Hampshire city that served as the backdrop for Jumanji is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the film this weekend
As the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary, its humanitarian operations are increasingly in doubt as its top donor the United States has cut funding under the Trump administration and some other top Western countries have followed suit
With the Trump administration aggressively trying to increase the number of immigration arrests, raids are now being conducted at all hours and more Americans are witnessing people being hauled off
House and Senate Republicans are taking different approaches when it comes to the tax cuts that lawmakers are looking to include in their massive tax bill
As the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, it might take a moment or more to remember why
The winning numbers in Friday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 26-49-58-61-63, Mega Ball: 9, Megaplier:
A holiday and a juror's illness shortened the sixth week of the Sean Diddy Combs' sex trafficking trial as prosecutors nearly concluded their case, setting the stage for the defense presentation
A Missouri judge has ordered an insurance company to pay nearly $44 million in a lawsuit involving a man whose conviction for killing a newspaper sports editor was overturned
Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, but the outage didnt lead to disruptions like what happened after similar outages around the Newark, New Jersey, airport this spring
A 20-year-old Connecticut man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for causing a car crash that killed a Hartford police officer and seriously wounded the officers partner
Rhode Islands Democratic-controlled state House has advanced legislation that would ban sales of certain semiautomatic rifles
Vice President JD Vance is accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent immigration protests
The husband of a Colorado woman whose remains were found after more than three years of searching has been rearrested on suspicion of first-degree murder
The U.S. evacuated 79 staff and families from the U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies
A fast-moving fire fueled by high winds has destroyed a dozen structures, including homes, and forced some in a rural area of southwest Utah to evacuate
President Donald Trump has moved on several fronts to block Harvard Universitys enrollment of international students as his administration presses its demands for a series of policy and governance changes at the Ivy League school
About a dozen San Diego-area religious leaders have visited a federal immigration court where some cases arising from the Trump administrations migration crackdown were being heard
Former Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley has died
A former mayor from Haiti convicted of lying about his violent past on his visa application has been sentenced to nine years in prison in Massachusetts
A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the states public school classrooms is unconstitutional
Prosecutors in Utah have charged a 16-year-old boy with four counts of murder Friday for allegedly shooting to death three people in an apparent gang confrontation at a carnival in the Salt Lake City area
A high school in the New York City suburbs has a high number of twins set to graduate this year
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says the pilot of a small plane that crashed at a North Carolina airport runway this month raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle
The Supreme Court has revived long-running lawsuits against Palestinian authorities from Americans killed or wounded in terrorism attacks in the Middle East
Crude oil prices have climbed and Asian shares are trading mixed as markets await more clarity on whether or not the U.S. will join Israels war against Iran
Faced with mounting lawsuits over a popular pistol, New Hampshire-based gunmaker Sig Sauer has gotten protection in the form of a new state law that makes it harder to take the manufacturer to court
Democrats in Virginia have built up a hefty fundraising advantage for their effort to reclaim the governor's mansion in November's general election
President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday
The No Kings protest in Salt Lake City was struck by violence when a man allegedly brandished a rifle near the crowd
Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains
Two men have been sentenced to lifelong terms in prison in the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy outside an Albuquerque baseball stadium in 2023 that prompted the New Mexico governor to issue a controversial gun ban
Hundreds have gathered outside Minnesotas Capitol for a vigil to remember a prominent state lawmaker and her husband gunned down at their home
The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 23-29-50-64-67, Powerball: 11
The United Nations vast system has tackled everything from delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to providing crucial peacekeeping operations in conflict zones
Though the Trump administration has been removing content on African American history from federal websites, Juneteenth remains a federal holiday, commemorating June 19, 1865
A groundbreaking is scheduled in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nations oldest Black churches
A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and charged with scheming to extort major cocaine traffickers facing extradition from Colombia and the Dominican Republic
The state board that oversees Floridas public universities has confirmed three more allies of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to become university presidents
Florida's public universities can free up $22.5 million a year to compensate student-athletes
A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges
Erick becomes a Category 3 major hurricane as it nears southern coastal Mexico
A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the Earth will be pretty much locked into hitting the internationally agreed upon preferred limit for global warming
Environmental groups and Michigans attorney general have filed separate challenges against a federal order that is keeping a coal-fired power plant open this summer
A new United Nations report says that Iran carried out executions at an alarming rate last year with at least 975 people killed
President Donald Trump has overseen the installation of a massive new flagpole on the South Lawn of the White House
A retired Connecticut police detective who went missing last year was found seven months later buried under debris in hoarding conditions in her home
Immigration officers have taken custody of a Spanish-language journalist arrested on obstruction and unlawful assembly charges while covering a weekend protest outside Atlanta
The 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will stop providing tailored support options to LGBTQ+ youth and young adults on July 17
The U.S. State Department says its restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas but says all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for review