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Most states have backup plans in case the first attempt at executing someone is unsuccessful

Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office

As midterm elections approach, some voters are worried about immigration enforcement officers at polling places

A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by a federal immigration agent in Texas has had surgery to remove the bullet lodged in his back

New York governor appoints special prosecutor to oversee investigation of Cornell University gang rape allegations

Two Massachusetts men have been sentenced to probation and given fines after they pleaded guilty to setting off fireworks at an empty Harvard Medical School building

A Massachusetts man has been arrested in a federal case alleging he cyberstalked conservative podcaster and former Trump administration official Katie Miller

The Justice Department says a Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has waived a restriction on $320 million in military aid to Egypt that had been previously withheld over human rights concerns

The attorney for a Northern California woman charged with her husband in the killing of their son-in-law says she plans to plead not guilty

A judge has overturned President Donald Trumps decision to fire the court-appointed top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle

A medical helicopter crash off Catalina Island near Los Angeles has killed two people and hospitalized two

A former fraternity leader at Northern Arizona University has been sentenced to two months in jail and three years of supervised probation for his role in a deadly hazing

President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered Iran's foreign minister and his delegation to the U.N. General Assembly to leave New York earlier than they had planned

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctors offices and other spaces people generally consider private

Experts say Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their ice this year, second-biggest annual loss, due to heat waves and less snow

The candidates for California governor Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton will meet face to face in the only scheduled debate of the campaign

The Federal Reserves internal watchdog says that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors

The Senate Republican campaign chairman said President Donald Trumps team has assured senators money will not be our problem heading into the midterm elections

State officials nationwide are focusing on rising gas and diesel prices tied to the war in Iran

A newly obtained transcript of a woman who has filed a lawsuit claiming she was sexually assaulted by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house shows that she told police she was 100% confident she was raped

Hurricane Rachel has formed in the Pacific Ocean

Police say the parents of a Detroit-area toddler who pulled a loaded pistol out of his backpack at a daycare will face charges

Senators from both parties are saying they have reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects that now face yearslong delays as lawmakers seek to meet growing demand for elec...

A California couple has been charged with murder after authorities say they shot their son-in-law to death Saturday in a public park

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed that the U.S. military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals

Ukraine will present the Trump administration and Congress this week with a wish list of Russian companies, vessels and individuals it would like to see hit with U.S. sanctions under a new law signed by President Donald Trump this month

A pilot on a plane traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed the other pilot and then apparently tried to crash the aircraft before being subdued by passengers and crew

Human rights advocates have asked a United Nations panel to intervene in a new U.S. government practice that they say amounts to the enforced disappearance of noncitizens

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the U.K. has strong indications that Iran played a part in an incident involving five men arrested near a U.S.-run air base in England

President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans for South Korea to invest roughly $54 billion in a project to export natural gas from Alaska, a proposal long backed by Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who's in a competitive reelection contest there

Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as...

The Trump administration says it's considering reducing the scope of a border security project in Big Bend National Park in Texas

Inflation slowed a bit last month as Americans ramped up their spending, though price gains remained elevated and are a challenge for many voters as the midterm elections approach

A Virginia mans murder conviction has been vacated, freeing him after 25 years in prison, including over a decade on death row

The Trump administration is shifting federal policy and dollars away from the Housing First approach that has been at the heart of federal homelessness policy

A federal judge has ended the 23-year federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department, marking the longest oversight of a police department in U.S. history

Eric Flores, a former federal prosecutor and Army National Guard infantry captain, is one of the Republican Party's prized recruits in this year's midterm elections

Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown is scheduled to be in a Miami courtroom Wednesday to accept a plea deal that will let him avoid prison time on a reduced charge in an attempted murder case

Tennessee is preparing to execute Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder she committed at age 18

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaskas Katmai National Park and Preserve

Powerful cutters have whirred to life on a giant drill that will begin boring a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey

New York Citys tax on luxury second homes has its latest moneyed opposition: casino mogul Steve Wynn and former Trump administration secretary Wilbur Ross

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog

Legislation passed by the Senate and headed to President Donald Trumps desk will formally end the production of pennies after 234 years

A man was dragged to death by a New York City subway train when a bag he was carrying got stuck in the door during the Monday evening rush hour commute

A Tennessee man with a lengthy criminal history has been charged in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky state trooper

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has debuted a sweeping plan to combat antisemitism and hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City, moving to assuage lingering concerns from critics who view his steadfast denunciations of Israel as antisemitic

As climate change increases the risk of flooding across many parts of the United States, fewer people are buying flood insurance