The Senate has voted to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans data nearly forced the statute to lapse

A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement

Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable

A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities

The House is preparing to vote on approval of $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies

Senate approves renewal of warrantless surveillance program well after deadline, sending bill to Biden for signature

Republicans in Wyoming are deciding which presidential candidate will get their states votes at the GOP national convention but there's only one choice

Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden

Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the presidential campaign of her husband, former President Donald Trump

Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in Mississippi

It may look like an NHL team has just fallen into Salt Lake Citys lap

The wacky spring tradition of pond skimming is happening this month at ski resorts across the country

The U.N. political chief says the year-old war in Sudan between rival generals vying for power has sparked a crisis of epic proportions fueled by weapons from foreign supporters who continue to flout U.N. sanctions aimed at helping end the conflict

Tennessee Volkswagen employees vote to join United Auto Workers union, boosting its drive to organize nonunion plants

The University of Southern California is further shaking up its commencement plans

The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the starving civilians of Gaza once the U.S. military completes a pier for transporting the humanitarian assistance by sea

The bitcoin halving is here. It limits the supply of new coins and is the fourth such event for the cryptocurrency

The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling centers while allowing restrictions on college diversity initiatives to become law without her signature

Authorities in Ohio say a man fatally shot an Uber driver because he wrongly assumed she was part of a scam to extract $12,000 in supposed bond money for a nephew

Federal officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies baseball team during a United Airlines charter flight

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A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other reproductive health care rights in the state after lawmakers let a second legislative session end without modifying the strict abortion bans

Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept

The warden of an Alabama prison was arrested Friday on drug charges

West Virginia will not face a clawback of $465 million in COVID-19 money from the federal government, alleviating concerns raised by state lawmakers during the legislative session in March

Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted of killing two Alaska Native women for allegedly lying on his naturalization application for saying he had neither killed nor hurt anyone

Iowa men who were victims of child molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of America could get higher legal compensation under a bill approved by lawmakers and signed into law the governor

A man who alleges he was beaten and raped as a teen at New Hampshires youth detention center says he both tried to take his own life and plotted to kill his abusers before speaking up

A central Indiana man who won a primary election for a township board position while charged with killing his estranged wife has been found guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says he'll keep his promise to call a special legislative session this summer to push lawmakers to find a fix for soaring property taxes

The Air National Guard has delayed personnel changes in Alaska that could have threatened national security and civilian rescue missions

A Wisconsin prosecutor says she wont bring charges against a Republican lawmaker accused of trying to evade state campaign finance laws in order to unseat the powerful speaker of the Assembly

Appeals court refuses to halt Trump's hush money trial over defense complaints about jury selection

Police officials say they are reviewing whether to restrict access to a public park outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial after a man set himself on fire there

Three Northern California law enforcement officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who was pinned facedown during a 2021 incident that drew comparisons to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history -- but also end his own career -- House Speaker Mike Johnson prayed for guidance

The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments amid complaints by licensed cannabis suppliers that shipments worth more than $300,000 have been confiscated in recent months at Border Patrol checkpoints in southern New Mexico

The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend of ethanol for the third summer in a row

Salvage crews at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are turning their focus to the thousands of tons of debris sitting atop the massive cargo ship that veered off course last month

The jury has resumed deliberations Friday in the trial of a 75-year-old Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his property

A convicted rapist has been charged with murder and attempted sexual assault in the killing of a visiting nurse at a Connecticut halfway house for sex offenders in October

A Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church in a small central Michigan community

A fired Philadelphia police officer has pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting of a fleeing 12-year-old boy

A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton can face discipline from the state bar association over his failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election

A video of people pulling bear cubs from a tree in North Carolina has prompted an investigation, but a state official says no charges will be filed

An attorney wants a federal court to overturn a Florida law that she says discriminates against Chinese citizens by barring their purchase of real estate in much of the state

Emergency crews rush away person on stretcher after fire extinguished outside court where Trump jury was just selected

Full jury of 12 people and 6 alternates is seated in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York

Firefighters doused a late-night fire at Oregons historic Timberline Lodge before it caused significant damage

New York state lawmakers are on the verge of passing a $237 billion budget that includes sweeping plans to build housing, shutter unlicensed cannabis storefronts and help manage the citys migrant crisis