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Melania Trump plans a rare appearance on Capitol Hill to encourage Congress to update a nearly 30-year-old federal foster care program

Utah reality star Taylor Frankie Paul will not be charged in recent fights with her former partner, the Salt Lake County District Attorneys Office said

Congress is set to take up the reauthorization of a divisive program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners calls, texts and emails

Officials say crashes involving about 70 vehicles have bottlenecked a section of a snowy Colorado highway and sent eight people to the hospital

A long-lasting weather pattern is blasting hot air across the eastern U.S. and threatening to shatter record highs starting Wednesday

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members

The U.S. military has launched a strike on another boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people

Omaha police fatally shot a woman they say kidnapped a young boy and slashed him across the face before killing her

Powerball is jumping the pond

Hampshire College, which includes documentary filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, announced it is closing later this year

President Donald Trump has again denied a request from Colorados governor to help people affected by wildfires and flooding

The wife of a former upstate New York town official has admitted deleting doorbell camera video of an incident in which her husband shot and wounded a lost DoorDash delivery driver

The Kennedy Center's new president, Matt Floca, is leading tours to show the building's need for major repairs

A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on manslaughter charges for allegedly removing a patients liver, instead of his spleen, during a 2024 surgery

The timeline is tightening as some states attempt to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of the November midterm elections

Irish government survives confidence vote over how it handled disruptive fuel protests

Less than a month before it was due to close, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has announced that it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open

A super typhoon with ferocious winds and heavy rains is battering a group of remote U.S. island in the Pacific Ocean

Tax refunds are up this season, but polling shows that most Americans still think their taxes are too high, according to recent polls

A suspect has been arrested in North Carolina after a woman said a man doused her with gasoline and set her on fire

Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment

Los Angeles schools avoided a strike as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal

Harvey Weinstein is going on trial again on a rape charge in New York City, after years of #MeToo infamy, legal peril and prison

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck a rural part of Nevada east of the states capital of Carson City

After the dramatic downfall of Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, the race for California governor is moving on

Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shoot a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at officers

The director of the Texas summer camp where 27 campers and counselors were killed by a devastating flood in 2025 said he did not see early federal and state warnings sent the day before the storm hit and that staff had no meetings about the pending danger

A judge says an Army veteran accused of leaking classified information about an elite commando unit will be released while awaiting a possible trial

The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, reversing course after removing the banner in February

Crews were working to restore power to a closed hydroelectric station in northern Michigan as heavy rain threatens to cause a dam to overflow

A dangerous super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is barreling toward a group of remote U.S. islands

Authorities say the bodies of two workers trapped when a stairwell roof collapsed at a parking garage under construction in Philadelphia have been found

The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn has significant reverberations in the United States

Americas history is being seen through different lenses as the country celebrates its 250th anniversary

Waters off the coast of California will soon be open to commercial salmon fishing for the first time since 2022

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rallied to celebrate 100 days in office, boosting his early accomplishments and charting future goals as he pledged to lead with a relentless focus on the citys working-class

Midwest soybean farmers are facing an array of compounding issues

Oil prices have resumed their climb and Asian markets mostly declined as the U.S. military prepared to blockade ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, where most shipping has been stalled by Iran since the start of the war

A new Gallup poll finds that more American workers are experimenting with artificial intelligence in their jobs, but there is a cohort of employees who remain skeptical

The church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech is getting upgraded with a $1.2 million federal grant

A man running for Florida governor has been arrested on charges he battered two older people in a home

Threat not just to residential use but also to refineries, petrochemical plants.

The world economy is experiencing a disorienting flashback to the 1970s

The winning numbers in Saturday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 06-47-49-53-60, Powerball: 6

Pakistan calls on Iran and US to keep the ceasefire after talks end without agreement

President Barack Obama in 2011 declared it was time to leave behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and pivot to Asia to counter China's rise

For years, a popular part of many cruises in southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by steep mountains, glittering waterfalls and calving glaciers

Millions of Americans are expected to claim new federal tax breaks for tips and overtime wages under a law enacted by President Donald Trump

Polls open in Hungary election with implications for Europe, Ukraine and beyond

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without a deal after the Iranians refused to accept American terms to not develop a nuclear weapon