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Florida officials will pay nearly half a million dollars to a biologist who was fired by a state agency for criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on social media after his death

The House has rejected a proposal for a new Smithsonian American Womens History Museum on the National Mall

A Texas board has suspended the nursing license of Camp Mystics co-director in a scathing order that accuses her of not helping children evacuate during last years catastrophic floods

Colorado Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to censure the state's governor for commuting the prison sentence of an election conspiracy theorist

President Donald Trump has called off a signing ceremony for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull Americas edge on AI technology

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of owners of Cuban property that was confiscated by Fidel Castros government more than 65 years ago

A divided Supreme Court has dismissed Alabamas bid to be allowed to execute a convicted murderer who was found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said an Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boarded in error amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousins girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter is set to be executed

Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers by lethal injection after courts denied requests to test DNA and fingerprint evidence and ruled that he is mentally competent

Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trumps ballroom after it has failed to win enough party support on Capitol Hill

Prosecutors are arguing in a court filing that the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted for her role at the center of a staggering $250 million fraud case should spend 50 years in prison

A Brooklyn woman has been sentenced to 20 years to life for drowning her three young children in the ocean near Coney Island's boardwalk

The worlds richest man announced plans Wednesday for one biggest sales of stock to the public ever for a space company currently losing billions of dollars year

A federal judge has refused to postpone a trial next month for civil claims stemming from the 2024 collapse of Baltimores Francis Scott Key Bridge

A House committee has discussed the future of the Transportation Security Administration as the Trump administration lobbies to replace TSA officers with private contractors

Media scion James Murdoch has struck a deal with the Vox Media digital company to acquire New York magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and the Vox editorial brand

Aston Villa ends its 30-year trophy drought with 3-0 win over Freiburg in Europa League final

The UPS plane crash that killed 15 people after an engine flew off its left wing might have been prevented under the original inspection schedule

Gary Crockett advances to Democratic primary runoff election for U.S. Senate in Louisiana

It's another hot day across the eastern U.S. a day after several spots broke daily heat records

President Donald Trump has returned to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to give the commencement address at the Connecticut school

Nine migrants deported from the United States have landed in Sierra Leone, according to the West African country

US announces charges against former Cuban President Ral Castro over 1996 shootdown of planes

A lawsuit filed on behalf of students and community organizations in Massachusetts argues the state is illegally maintaining schools that are racially segregated, concentrating Black and Latino students in high-poverty districts with fewer opportunities

A former federal prosecutor is facing federal charges over allegations that she sent a report detailing Jack Smiths investigation into President Donald Trumps hoarding of classified documents to her personal email account, despite a judges order to ...

The U.S. military says it boarded an Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was suspected of trying to violate the American blockade

The man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles is appearing in court for a preliminary hearing ahead of his arson trial next month

Inmate convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match is executed in Arizona

Blanche says US expects Castro to answer to indictment in US, 'by his own will or by another way'

Harvard University faculty have voted to limit the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, approving one of the most sweeping efforts by a major university to curb grade inflation

The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide have held their final session

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled with President Donald Trumps often inconsistent stance on the alliance have created concern

George Soros Open Society Foundations pledged $300 million Wednesday to initiatives it says will defend democratic rights and advance economic security in the U.S. over the next five years

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States

The South Carolina House has endorsed a plan to redraw its congressional districts to favor Republicans at the urging of President Donald Trump

Authorities say the three people killed by two teen shooters at a San Diego mosque died while saving roughly 140 children who were in the building at the time of the attack

The winning numbers in Tuesday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 10-26-34-56-64, Mega Ball: 6, Megaplier:

Rep. Mike Collins and Derek Dooley will compete for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in a June 16 runoff, as neither received at least 50% of the vote in Tuesdays primary to win outright

Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at least 40% of the 21 whales found dead last year

Arizona is set Wednesday to execute a prisoner convicted of fatally setting a man on fire over 20 years ago

Oregon voters have rejected a gas tax increase passed last year by Democratic lawmakers

The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered the state's largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors

The painting over of a giant mural in Dallas of swimming whales to make way for art related to the upcoming World Cup matches has spurred an outcry

The U.S. says it's pausing participation on a joint board with Canada for continental defense that dates to World War II

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana says he has no regrets about his momentous vote to convict President Donald Trump on impeachment charges five years ago

Alabama Republicans will choose among several U.S. Senate candidates who have stressed their loyalty to President Donald Trump

A 56-year-old woman has died after falling into an open maintenance hole on a busy New York City street

A New York judge says federal agents can no longer make arrests without exceptional circumstances in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur