The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups

A man accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in South Florida wont be tried until September 2025

Honolulu's medical examiner says a Hawaii crime boss who died in federal detention this month was killed by an opioid overdose

Hitmaking record producer Richard Perry has died at 82

Three Oregon lawmakers say they plan to introduce a bill that would bar utilities from raising rates if they have unresolved wildfire lawsuits for three or more years

Lava is erupting from Hawaiis Kilauea volcano for the second straight day

The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer may clear the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath

President Joe Biden has made it official: The bald eagle is now the national bird of the United States

The last group of striking hotel workers in San Francisco has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with Hilton, bringing an end to a strike that has lasted three months

California has been hit hard by extreme weather over the past several weeks

The Piney-Pinecreek Border Airport has a unique claim to fame its runway straddles the border of the U.S. and Canada

Defense lawyers say the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch may have dementia, and a competency hearing is necessary to determine if he can face sex charges

Police say an 18-year-old man allegedly fired shots inside an Indianapolis shopping mall, wounding one person and prompting officers to evacuate holiday shoppers on Monday night

Preconstruction work to collect data to design a new Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is scheduled to begin in January

Persistent high surf and flooding threats along California's coast have residents on high alert a day after a major storm was blamed for one man's death and the partial collapse of a pier

Angel Blue, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Operas first new production of Verdis Aida in 36 years

A North Carolina man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a police officer who was responding to a report of a man with a gun in a supermarket

American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide due to a technical issue just as the Christmas travel season kicks into overdrive and winter weather is threatening more potential problems for those planning to fly or drive

A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die is awaiting arraignment

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says strengthening his countrys alliance with the United States is key to regional security and expressed his desire to meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper leaves his job next week after eight years

Conservators have uncovered eight angels in a historic Boston church that counted Paul Revere as a bell ringer and played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary War

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein have filed another lawsuit against a GOP-inspired law that strips away powers from several incoming Democratic state leaders

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria says the countrys new authorities were very receptive to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus and it is preparing to deploy

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into why several drones collided and fell from the sky during a holiday show over the weekend in downtown Orlando, Florida

A chemical company official has been charged in connection with the unauthorized discharge of oil that left a miles-long dark, oily sheen on the Flint River in Michigan

A triptych of criminal charges paints a searing, sometimes disparate portrait of the man accused of ambushing and killing UnitedHealthcares CEO Brian Thompson

Two people were rescued when a California pier under construction partially collapsed and fell into the ocean as the states central coast was pounded by heavy surf from a major storm expected to bring hurricane-force winds to the seas off the Pacific ...

Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial, are seeking to have his prison sentence reduced

The mother of a 16-year-old who was shot by SWAT police during a no-knock, predawn raid in Alabama, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police officers involved and the city of Mobile

Police arrest man on murder charges in death of woman who was set on fire in New York City subway

Family and friends are saying their final farewells to a substitute teacher killed in a school shooting in Wisconsin last week

New York City police have a person in custody who is suspected to have lit a woman on fire in the subway and then watched from a bench as she became engulfed in flames and died

Police: Officer fatally shot in a North Carolina grocery store, and a suspect is in custody

This is a MedPage Today story. Residents and medical students recalled clinical information with less accuracy after hearing a patient handoff rife with biased language, a survey study found. Those who heard handoffs with blame-based bias had less accurate recall than those who heard neutral handoffs (77% vs 93%, P=0.005), according to Austin Wesevich, MD, MPH, MS, of the University of Chicago, and colleagues. In addition, participants had less positive attitudes toward patients as measured by P

Victims families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences

Lava is bubbling through the crust of one of the worlds most active volcanoes, which is Kilauea, on Hawaiis Big Island

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptistes Pansy in Mike Leighs Hard Truths.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has received a Bronze Star for his deployment to Afghanistan 18 years ago

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen's doctors say they are pleased with his prognosis after the governor was injured by a horse bucking him off

A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction

A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith

A retired police officer in the nations capital has been convicted of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group

New York City police are working to identify the woman who died after being intentionally set on fire inside a stationary subway train

John Mulaneys second trip to Broadway took little convincing

Ex-police officer in the nation's capital is convicted of lying about leaking to the leader of the far-right Proud Boys

As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster

The economic and technological rivalry between the U.S. and China has come to the drone market

Donald Trump has promised to undertake mass deportations

Researchers and watchdog groups say the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce detailed and novel online reviews has put merchants, service providers and consumers in uncharted territory