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The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt
A federal judge in Denver is set to hear arguments over whether an immigration and labor activist who took refuge in Colorado churches to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration should be freed from detention
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trumps executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among federal contractors and grant recipients
Georgia lawmakers are giving up on creating a statewide database to collect information on students who might commit violence
Yolanda Saldvar, who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez, has been denied parole by a Texas board
The family of a 69-year-old man who died in a rural Colorado jail in 2023 says he slowly suffocated to death after his ribs were broken during an altercation with a deputy and he languished in a cell for a week without medical care
FBI Director Kash Patel may not have been part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans
Congress is holding a hearing Thursday about the January collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft
A North Dakota jury has found a woman not guilty of murder in the 2007 stabbing death of her roommate
A former Minnesota state senator charged with trying to solicit a minor for prostitution and accused of attempting to obstruct the FBIs investigation from jail can be released to a halfway house pending his trial
Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling case that includes the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent
An 8-year-old girl is dead and a 12-year-old boy is in critical condition in Michigan after their Amish buggy was rear-ended by an SUV
Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities
A bill that would relax restrictions on working hours for Florida teenagers is moving through the state Legislature amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration
Vermonts child welfare agency has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the state routinely targets and tracks pregnant women deemed unsuitable for motherhood
The Trump administration is at the Supreme Court with a new emergency appeal, this time seeking approval to go ahead with cuts of hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training
Chilis is opening a new restaurant just north of Scranton to honor the legacy of The Office.
South Korean officials say a helicopter engaged in firefighting has crashed
Lava began bubbling out of Hawaiis most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilaueas sporadic eruption resumed
An Alabama judge heard conflicting testimony on Tuesday about newly released body camera video that captured the moments before a police officer fatally shot an armed Black man outside of his home
Democrat Dan Goughnour has won a special election in western Pennsylvania
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty
A Wisconsin zoo said two river otters, Louie and Ophelia, weaseled their way out of their enclosure last week during a winter storm, as the search continued Tuesday
The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribes leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later
President Donald Trump's portrait no longer hangs at the Colorado state Capitol
The constant push to cut income taxes in South Carolina has accelerated significantly
Police in Las Cruces, New Mexico, played 911 emergency calls and video depicting chilling scenes of people running in panic as gunfire crackled in a park where three people were killed and 15 were wounded during an unauthorized car show
Turnout during the first week of early voting ahead of Wisconsins pivotal Supreme Court race is far exceeding levels from another high-stakes election just two years ago
The Trump administrations top intelligence officials face Congress for back-to-back hearings this week
Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail for legal purposes as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcares CEO
Dozens of bird eggs and chicks have been rescued from a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapse in a California park
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights
The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has resigned after nearly five years in the position
Austin police say theyre investigating several incendiary devices found at a Tesla dealership on the citys north side
Prosecutors in New Mexico's busiest judicial district have been pleading with state lawmakers to amend the children's code to address what they call an unbelievable spike in juvenile crime in Albuquerque
Firefighters in North and South Carolina are battling multiple wind-driven wildfires
The election to fill a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat is quickly becoming a referendum on the Trump administration and a test of enthusiasm on both sides
A Cornell University student involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests has been asked to surrender to immigration authorities
Alaska State Troopers say a teenager has died after being buried by snow in an avalanche
Federal prosecutors are trying to block the release of a former Minnesota state senator who resigned after he was charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution
A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the companys Roundup weed killer caused his cancer
Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died on Sunday
A month after an official with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection was found slain in her home, the womans wife has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of murder
Second lady Usha Vance is set to travel to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump continues to suggest the U.S. could take control of the mineral-rich Artic island
Segway is recalling about 220,000 of its scooters sold across the U.S. due to a fall hazard that has resulted in user injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he wont resign his post, despite pressure from some in the party after he voted to move forward with Republican spending legislation that avoided a government shutdown
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