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Virginias Old Dominion University did not ask a student about his criminal history before or after readmitting him
KFC founder Harland Sanders pressure cooker, black bow tie and dozens of his personal items are up for public auction
Hurricane Genevieve is roaring in the Pacific Ocean far from land while Tropical Storm Fausto increases impacts on Hawaii
Florida is set to put two inmates to death hours apart on Tuesday, marking the first time since 2017 that a state has scheduled two executions in a single day
The U.N. refugee agency is marking the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention
Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street and oil prices fell after the U.S. and Iran paused their attacks while work resumed on restarting negotiations to end their war
A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction shows continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people
A Georgia teenager who charged at the U.S. Capitol while armed with a loaded shotgun and wearing body armor and camouflage clothing has pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a firearm
A tornado has struck northeastern Wisconsin, causing widespread damage and power outages
A major interstate in Oregon was closed for some 70 miles due to wildfire
U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administrations human rights record
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of the more influential politicians in the United States, will be eulogized in Washington
The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter Chinas growing influence worldwide
A former Olympian charged with deliberately damaging the the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is seeking access to all the closed-door testimony that led to his indictment
A psychologist has testified that a teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia had a chaotic, lonely upbringing
The Clinton Foundation has launched a new initiative to develop nonpartisan policy solutions with state and local governments
President Donald Trump plans to focus on his economic policies during a visit to suburban Detroit
Attorneys for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will meet with federal prosecutors in Miami to work out a schedule for the potentially monthslong process of fighting extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of ra...
Traffic is set to start flowing across a new bridge over the Detroit River that will serve as a critical route for trade, jobs and tourism between Canada and the U.S. Last week, Canada celebrated the Gordie Howe International Bridge with a ribbon-cutti...
A scorching heat wave continues across the central and southern United States, leaving at least 40 million people under extreme heat warnings
Hurricane Genevieve has strengthened into a major Category 4 storm southwest of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean
The person follows the sea lion, kicking at it as it tries to scoot away.
The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania
The Trump administration has levied tariffs on more than 60 countries, using a legal justification that permits the president to impose import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in unjustifiable, unreasonable or discrimina...
Former Rep. Cori Bush, outside the courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued, promises to reverse her ouster from Congress
Police say two men climbed over the glass wall of Seattles iconic Space Needle on Friday, flipped over the edge and parachuted down from the 605-foot structure
The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing
A fourth firefighter has died from burns after he and several colleagues were overcome by a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border last month
'Teen takeovers' have raised safety concerns in cities across the U.S.
Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits
Economics has a term for what U.S. grocery prices have done in recent years
Iran reports no strikes overnight into Saturday, an apparent break in nearly two weeks of U.S. attacks
Maine Democrats are meeting to pick a candidate to face longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins after Graham Platner dropped out of the race
Authorities have found eight people dead in a Michigan home after a fire, with some victims having gunshot wounds
Firefighters in Oregon are battling dozens of blazes with windy and dry conditions expected Friday and Saturday
More than 500 incoming students at Howard University have learned this week that they have been unenrolled from the Washington, D.C., school and no longer have spots for the upcoming fall semester that begins Aug. 17
A prominent Supreme Court litigator has been sentenced to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud in a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player
An attorney for the family of a man who was shot and killed by Madison police says Corey Ruizs death was unjustified and unconstitutional
Tropical Storm Genevieve has formed in the Pacific Ocean
U.N. human rights chief Volker Trk is facing opposition ahead of a vote Friday for a second four-year term
As officials review widely circulated bystander videos of the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in Madison, Wisconsin, one key perspective wont be emerging: footage from the officers body-worn cameras
A man has been arrested after police said he stabbed two men in separate, nonfatal attacks on Manhattans Upper West Side
A man using a wheelchair was struggling to get across six lanes of traffic on an Arkansas roadway when help came in an unexpected way from a spidery superhero in a Jeep
The Trump administration is seeking to rename Manhattans Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the countrys busiest transit hub
Officials are gathering Friday in Ontario to take delight in a new U.S.-Canada bridge over the Detroit River
A teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Georgia is due in court for a plea and sentencing hearing
Democrats are expected to recommend the states that will hold the first presidential nominating contests in 2028, likely cementing a calendar that moves away from Iowa and New Hampshire in favor of more racially diverse states
President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court
Alaska has sent more than 3,000 letters to residents asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of this year's elections
A federal judicial panel has allowed a new Tennessee congressional map that splits apart a majority-Black district in Memphis

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