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The U.S. militarys latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean has killed two men while leaving one survivor

Officials say there were no injuries reported after an explosion and a fire at a refinery in the New Orleans area

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local groups

California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth

The town council in a small north Georgia community has called a special meeting for Friday evening to discuss reinstating their police department, and to consider a request for the mayor's immediate resignation.

Three western U.S. states have announced a new two-year deal to stabilize the Colorado River

A young man has appeared in a Michigan court on murder charges, three days after a teenager and a woman were fatally shot in a dispute about who could play an informal game of soccer

A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mose

Joni Lamb, who cofounded one of the world's largest Christian TV networks with her late husband, has died

The man who firebombed Colorado demonstrators in 2025, killing 1, is sentenced to life in prison

Jurors in Ohio have convicted a former sheriffs deputy of reckless homicide in the shooting of a Black man who was carrying sandwiches into his grandmothers home

A note attributed to Jeffrey Epstein in his first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 has been made public

President Donald Trump has visited the Lincoln Memorial to see the reflecting pool he's painting in a color he calls American flag blue.

A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of over $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional

The Trump administration is conducting a review of the 53 Mexican consulates in the United States

A federal judge says instructions received by immigration enforcement officers to make civil immigrant arrests without warrants do not meet probable cause standards and should not used as guidance

A Utah judge is set to decide if news outlets can continue to film, photograph and livestream the murder case against the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay is set to be sentenced Friday in federal court

A cyberattack has caused chaos for students at thousands of schools as they study for finals

United Arab Emirates says its air defenses are intercepting drone and missile fire as Iran wars ceasefire challenged

Alabama lawmakers are set to vote on a measure that could change the state's congressional primaries as part of a bid to switch its U.S. House districts

Authorities plan to update the public Friday on a search of a home tied to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996

U.S. immigration officials have quietly lifted a hold on green card and visa applications for doctors from three dozen countries

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz always was meant to be temporary

President Donald Trumps border czar has threatened to flood the zone with immigration agents if New York passes bills to limit local coordination with the federal governments crackdown

A jury has found the city of Los Angeles not liable in the killing of a 14-year-old girl who was hit by a police officers stray bullet during a shootout in 2021

Newly released data suggests that someone intentionally cut off the fuel to both engines of a China Eastern Airlines jet and there was a struggle over the controls before the plane slammed into a mountain in 2022

Storm chaser Ashton Lemley was helping search through a Mississippi trailer park destroyed by tornadoes when he heard a kitten meowing from the rubble

The man charged with assault for spraying vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis has pleaded guilty in federal court after reaching a deal with prosecutors

The FBI says the man who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others in a mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar in March acted alone and there's no evidence he was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group

A council appointed by President Donald Trump has proposed significant changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency

The United States Postal Service is considering a rule change that would allow anyone to send handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years

Former FBI Director James Comey is seeking to cancel his upcoming court appearance in North Carolina

Man accused of firebombing Colorado demonstrators pleads guilty to murder

A clean energy group says the Pentagon is holding up the development of more than 250 new onshore wind farms on private lands by failing to complete its national security reviews

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln

China is signaling that Taiwan will be a priority ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping next week

Faith leaders in Southern California are uniting after devastating twin wildfires that hit the region in January 2025 causing unprecedented losses

Cruise company says 29 passengers left hantavirus outbreak ship on April 24, after 1st fatality on board

China gives suspended death sentences to 2 former defense ministers who were accused of bribery

President Donald Trump's plan to put a coat of white paint on the granite exterior of a historic building that's part of the White House complex is getting a hearing by a key federal agency

Michigan Republicans once viewed 2026 as their best chance to reclaim power in the battleground state

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting the Vatican to mend ties after President Donald Trumps criticisms of Pope Leo XIV and the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran

A man accused of a firebomb attack on a demonstration in Colorado is set to plead guilty to murder and other charges

Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center are set to appear in federal court in Alabama

The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 18-27-51-65-68, Powerball: 5

Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not political actors.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are poised to vote on a plan to reshape a majority-Black congressional district

Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race

Authorities are searching the home connected to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996